Free talks on Virginia Woolf and her Contemporaries, hosted by Literature Cambridge and Lucy Cavendish College. 30 October 2018, 1.00 pm: Clara Jones will talk on Woolf’s lost sketches from 1931. Town and Gown all welcome. https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/virginia-woolf-talks/ *
Continue ReadingMonth: October 2018
Dr Trudi Tate and Dr Isobel Maddison organise all-day reading of ‘To the Lighthouse’, 14 October 2018
Trudi Tate and Isobel Maddison organised an all-day reading of Woolf’s 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse, Sunday 14 October 2018. Another all-day reading is planned for October 2019: probably of The Waves (1931). https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw-past-talks
Continue ReadingDr Trudi Tate lectures at ‘World War I: Lifting the Shadow’, a First World War centenary conference organised by the York Quakers, 6 October 2018
Dr Trudi Tate gave a keynote paper on ‘The Hidden Legacies of War’ at a one-day conference exploring the legacies of World War I and the lessons of the past. The conference was organised by the York Quakers and took place on 6 October 2018, http://www.yorkquakers.org.uk/ww1conferences.html
Continue ReadingDr Kasia Boddy interviews Man Booker International Prize-winner, Olga Tokarczuk, Wednesday 17 October 2018
Dr Kasia Boddy interviews Olga Tokarczuc, winner of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for Literature, as part of the Cambridge Literary Festival, 6.30pm, Wednesday 17 October, Heffers Bookshop.
Continue ReadingPOETRY READING featuring JOHN BALABAN and SARAH HOWE, 5.30pm, Wednesday 24 October, Pembroke College
POETRY READING featuring JOHN BALABAN and SARAH HOWE 5.30 to 7pm on Weds 24th October in the Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke College Open to all. Free of charge. Free wine. Poet Bios JOHN BALABAN <http://www.johnbalaban.com/> is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose, including four volumes which together have won The Academy of […]
Continue Reading“Concerning the Novel Chapter”, Nicholas Dames, Columbia University, Wednesday 14 November 2018, 5.30pm, GR05, Faculty of English
What does the fictional chapter do? Why do novels have them and how have they changed? This talk will propose the chapter — among the most innocuous and pervasive of the novel’s formal features — as a new object of analysis, and offer suggestions on what methods are appropriate in order to approach a phenomenon so ubiquitous and so […]
Continue ReadingSettled status applications for EU/EEA and Swiss nationals
In this time of uncertainty over the final shape of Brexit I wanted to write to let you know that the University continues to be committed to supporting its EU, EEA and Swiss staff, many of whom we know are concerned about their immigration status after the UK leaves the EU next year. Our people […]
Continue ReadingDr Michael D. Hurley gives Keynote Lecture at ‘Word and Mystery II: Angelic Poetry’, Santiago de Chile, 18-19 October 2018
Dr Michael D. Hurley is giving a keynote lecture on ‘The Fate of Angels in the Nineteenth Century’ at a conference on ‘Word and Mystery’ in Santiago, Chile (18-19th October). The conference is hosted at the Universidad de los Andes, organized by: Institute of Literature de los Andes; the Faculty of Philology of the Universität […]
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita performs Transpositions at Murray Edwards College on 24 October 2018, 8pm
Dr Sophie Seita has been commissioned to make a new performance piece in response to a research project in Sociology and an exhibition at Murray Edwards on reproductive technologies and reproductive labour. Her piece Transpositions will reflect on the concept and choreography of transposition, queer kinship, corn as a queer plant, ritual, the ritornello, and the cross-pollinating possibilities of […]
Continue ReadingA Small Exhibition about Giants, curated by Dr Amy Morris (Faculty of English, 1 October– 9 November 2018)
What kinds of books have giants in them? How do they fit them in? Find out at the exhibition on the first floor of the English Faculty. There’s also a display board and mystery object in the English Faculty Library. The exhibition is curated by Dr Amy Morris and includes illustrated books from university and […]
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