Excavating Media: Devices, Processes, Apparatuses An interdisciplinary conference addressing new approaches to media theory and history.Venue: Faculty of English, University of CambridgeDates: 30th June – 1st July 2017Media often escape articulation, even as they shape articulation itself. Today, we increasingly express ourselves through and within digital media, yet our critical vocabulary for these devices, their processes, and the apparatuses in which they are […]
Continue ReadingMonth: June 2017
Dr Robert Macfarlane Collaborates On Feature Film
Dr Robert Macfarlane has written the script for Mountain, a film which explores the powerful force that mountains hold over the imagination of so many. Mountain is directed by Jennifer Peedom. Voiced by Willem Dafoe, it features a score performed by the Australian Chamber Orchestra. The World Premiere takes place at the Sydney Opera […]
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita curates ‘A Century of Avant-Garde Little Magazines’, June 2017
Currently on display in the Cambridge English Faculty exhibition space is a selection of some of the most fascinating, rare, important, and often forgotten avant-garde magazines from the early twentieth century all the way up to the present day. ‘A Century of Avant-Garde Little Magazines’ celebrates the crucial and multifarious contributions magazines have made not […]
Continue ReadingDr Leo Mellor Invited to Give Paper at (Un)Civil War?, June 2017
Dr Leo Mellor has been invited to give a paper on June 17th at (Un)Civil War?, a two-day colloquium at the University of St Andrews. (Un)Civil War? will examine conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries in order to question perceptions of civility, violence, commemoration and human rights during war and ‘peace’. https://uncivilwarcolloquium.wordpress.com/ https://uncivilwarcolloquium.wordpress.com/2017/04/26/doctor-leo-mellor/
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