Funding won from CRASSH to run a conference on ‘Philosophy, Poetry, and Utopian Politics – The Relevance of Richard Rorty’

Title of conference: Philosophy, Poetry, and Utopian Politics – The Relevance of Richard Rorty Lead convenor: Elin Danielsen Huckerby, PhD student, English, Magdalene Co-convenors: Céline Henne and Erlend Owesen, PhD students at HPS, and Nick Devlin, PhD student at POLIS Sponsor: Dr Ross Wilson, English, Trinity Dates: 12-13 of September 2019 In March, CRASSH agreed […]

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Dr Louise Joy publishes ‘Literature’s Children: The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization’ (Bloomsbury Academic, February 2019)

Louise Joy publishes Literature’s Children: The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization (Bloomsbury Academic, February 2019). The book brings into dialogue ideas from literary theory and the philosophy of education, drawing in particular on the work of the philosopher John Dewey, to provide a new account of the complex relations between literary aesthetics and […]

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CALL FOR PAPERS: New Postcolonial Concerns: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop, 15 June 2019, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. Keynote Speaker: Ruvani Ranasinha (KCL). Abstracts due: 14 April 2019

CALL FOR PAPERS: New Postcolonial Concerns: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop 15 June 2019 | Faculty of English, University of Cambridge Keynote Speaker: Ruvani Ranasinha (KCL)  Abstracts due: 14 April 2019 ****** Our planet faces testing times. The challenges ahead increasingly converge: the destruction of our global environment and its uneven impact, the transnational ascension of […]

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Crossroads of Knowledge team present a panel on ‘Knowledge at the Crossroads’ at the Renaissance Society of America’s Annual Conference in Toronto, March 17-19, 2019

Crossroads of Knowledge team present a panel on ‘Knowledge at the Crossroads’ at the Renaissance Society of America’s Annual Conference in Toronto, March 17-19, 2019 https://rsa.confex.com/rsa/2019/meetingapp.cgi/Session/1770 March 19, 2-3.30, Knowledge at the Crossroads. Organiser, Chair and Respondent: Subha Mukherji. Speakers: Joe Jarrett, George Oppitz-Trotman, Regina Schwartz .

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