Dr Sophie Seita performs at the opening of an art exhibition on Post-Truth, CRASSH, 9 March 2018

Sophie Seita will perform ‘Making Light: In the Temple of Formidable Hypotheses’ for Reality Machines, an exhibition curated by Dr Mara Polgofsky (Queens’), at CRASSH, 9 March 2018, 7pm. The performance is part of the exhibition preview and opening reception. The exhibition and catalogue feature work by: Forensic Architecture Virginia Colwell (USA) Máximo Corvalán (Chile) Alejandra España (Mexico) Angelo Ferreira […]

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Joyce to Beckett: Ireland and Modernism – a two-day conference at Magdalene College, Cambridge, 22-23 March 2018

A major, international, two-day conference, JOYCE TO BECKETT: IRELAND AND MODERNISM, with participants – several from the English Faculty – chosen by John Kerrigan will be held at Magdalene College on 22-23 March. The distinguished line-up of speakers includes many of the leading figures in Irish studies across several generations, as well as creative writers […]

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NEW VENUE – Polyphonic Poetry: Sonnet L’Abbé & Tim Atkins – Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Cambridge University, 7.30pm, Wednesday 28 February

Newest Sonnet Makers! Come hear Tim Atkins and Sonnet L’Abbé perform on Wednesday 28 February NEW VENUE: McCrum Theatre, Corpus Christi College (next to The Eagle Tavern) Doors 7.30pm, Reading 8pm Tim Atkins: Some Books: 25 Sonnets (The Figures), Horace (O Books), Koto Y Yo, and Petrarch Collected Atkins (Crater Press), 1000 Sonnets (ifpthenq) and […]

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Claudia Tobin contributes to the exhibition ‘Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by her Writings’, Tate St Ives, 10 February – 29 April 2018

Claudia Tobin has contributed to the exhibition ‘Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by her Writings’, which has recently opened at Tate St Ives. The exhibition is led by Woolf’s writing, which will act as a prism through which to explore feminist perspectives on landscape, domesticity and identity in modern and contemporary art – with works […]

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Happy Valentine’s Day, star-crossed lovers…

As she prepares to begin work on a new introduction for the New Cambridge Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, Dr Hester Lees-Jeffries is writing about Romeo and Juliet every day in 2018, line by line. So far she’s got to Act 1 Scene 3 – Romeo and Juliet haven’t actually met yet… You can read the […]

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