Tuesday 7 November, 4.30pm, Christ’s College, Yusuf Hamied Theatre Echoes of Paradise ​A​n Evening of Contemporary Responses to Milton’s Paradise Lost, 350 years after its first  publication 4:30-5:30pm ​ Lecture by Professor Sir Christopher Ricks : ‘​ Milton and those who follow his art towards blasphemy ​’​ Interval 6:00-7:30pm​ Music from Trio Apaches, by Sally […]

Throughout September and October 2017, Dr Laura Wright co-hosts BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth, a series which explores the world of words and the ways in which we use them. Monday 30 October – Pub Names From The Red Lion to the Bucket of Blood, how did your local get its name?  Michael Rosen […]

To read more about ‘Breaking the Silence – Cambridge speaks out against sexual misconduct’ go to: http://www.cam.ac.uk/news/university-of-cambridge-launches-campaign-to-promote-zero-tolerance-of-sexual-misconduct

Dr Fiona Green gives a talk on Marianne Moore and Revision at ‘Poet in the City: Back to the Beginning’, 18 October: http://www.poetinthecity.co.uk/show-event/?pc_event_id=336 — 

Dr Rod Mengham joins exhibition curator Juliet Bingham for a walk through ‘Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into the Future’ at Tate Modern, on 30 October 2017, 6.30–8.30pm.  The hour-long tour and discussion is followed by a private viewing of the exhibition. ‘Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into […]

Yvonne Salmon will be giving a TEDx talk on the value of mischief at BAFTA on 24th October. Invited by Fidelity as one of their Agents of Change, the talk will draw on Yvonne’s research into behaviour, culture, law, recording and ways to expose prejudice, as well as her own art, film and performance work. […]

John Kerrigan’s book Shakespeare’s Binding Language has won the 2016 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize in Literature.  The award ceremony takes place at the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, 26-29 October, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

As part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, Ian Burrows will be hosting a workshop on the 20th October which talks members of the public through Shakespeare’s editorial history, introducing them to the centuries of Shakespeareana held at the University Library. Participants will be invited to bring in their own copies of Shakespeare and to consider the ways […]

Dr Sophie Read will give a talk on early modern odours at the Royal College of Physicians’ Museum as part of ‘Sensational scents: a sensory journey to the 17th century’, a ‘museum late’, exploring the world of writer, doctor and 17th century collector, Sir Thomas Browne. https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/events/sensational-scents-sensory-journey-17th-century