Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Film Screening: ‘Now Circa (1918)’ directed by Redell Olsen February 8th, 2019, 5.00 pm. McCrum Theatre, off Benet Street, Cambridge (behind the Eagle pub) ‘Now Circa (1918)’ was written and directed by Redell Olsen, produced by Drew Milne, and starring Catherine Lord, Caitlin Doherty, Saskia West, and Sophie Gilmartin. The screening […]

Dr Diarmuid Hester (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) will give a lecture for Cambridge Queer History Month on 4th February 2019 called, ‘”Nothing Ever Just Disappears”: Innovative Queer Writing in America in the 1980s’. It’s free and takes place in the Howard Theatre, Downing College at 6pm. More information available here: https://www.facebook.com/events/135620190712146/ The event is organised […]

A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets Forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic on 7th February 2019.   “A vital hub of poetry readings, performance, publications and radical politics in 1960s New York, the Umbra Workshop was a cornerstone of the African American avant-garde. Bringing together new archival research and detailed close readings […]

Dr Laura Wright is a Keynote Speaker at the Eleventh International Conference on Middle English, which takes place at the University of Florence,  5-8 February 2019.  The title of Dr Wright’s lecture is ‘On the Multilingual Background to Standard English’. https://www.icome11.unifi.it/index.php

Reading Dylan Thomas has been published by Edinburgh University Press. It features essays by several academics in Cambridge – Deborah Bowman, Leo Mellor, and Rod Mengham – as well as an introduction by its editor, Edward Allen. The cover art is the work of India Lewis, who read English at Jesus College. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-reading-dylan-thomas.html

The purpose of the project is to design, create and test prototypes for a new, Fitzwilliam-centric subscription service using the technology created by Museum In a Box. MIaB is an edtech company pioneering the use of ‘Brain Boxes’: a small plywood box, about the size of a Roberts radio, containing speakers, a Raspberry Pi, and […]

The International Laurence Sterne Foundation has now opened its Call for Papers for its third conference, on the topic of ‘War and Peace in the Age of Sterne’, to be held in Utrecht 31st October-2nd November 2019. Further details can be found on the conference website: https://sternelegacies.com/utrecht-2019/

Ever wondered whether W. S. Graham liked to draw? Or what he made of flying? Or what kinds of spaces – real and imagined – are opened up by his tricky poetry? Come along on Friday to hear a group of people asking and answering these questions – and some others – as we celebrate […]