The Emergence of Standard English in Multilingual Britain, c.1300-1800 A Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies (MEITS) Workshop Thursday 20 April 2017 (08:30am – 6:30pm) and Friday 21 April 2017 (9:00am – 2:30pm) Venue: Room GR06/07 Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP Organiser: Dr Laura Wright, Reader in English Language at […]

Edward Ragg (Selwyn ’99) reads from his new collection Holding Unfailing (Cinnamon Press, 2017): Date: 11th February 2017 Time: 6.45 p.m. Venue: Drama Studio, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP Drinks: Wine and soft drinks will be available RSVP: If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Edward Ragg on edward.ragg@cantab.net […]

Professor David Trotter gives the Churchill Lecture at the University of Bristol on 9 February 2017, 5pm-6.45pm, LT2 (11 Woodland Road).  The title of the lecture is ‘Literary Lightning: Modernism and Media Theory’. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/events/2017/february/churchill-lecture.html This lecture will propose lightning as a figure for modernism’s understanding of the electromagnetic frequency domain disclosed by contemporary advances in […]

4th February 2017   18.30-19.30 Rod Mengham and Ian Patterson will be reading their poetry at the Anna Mendelssohn Symposium University of Sussex