A ‘Crossroads of Knowledge’ event at Kettle’s Yard and Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge. Programme and further details for booking to be announced shortly. Link to Crossroads of Knowledge website.
Continue ReadingMonth: July 2019
Dr Jennifer Wallace interviewed by ‘Kathimerini’, July 2019
Dr Jennifer Wallace was the subject of an interview feature in ‘Kathimerini’, the main Greek newspaper, as part of their regular series ‘Lunch with Kathimerini’. Link to the article. An English translation of this interview has also been published by ‘Kathimerini’ and it has been syndicated in the ‘New York Times International Edition’. Link to […]
Continue ReadingDr Laura Davies runs a two-day public event exploring literature, death and dying, Cambridge Central Library, 19-20 July 2019
Dr Laura Davies (King’s College) is running a two-day public event on death and literature at Cambridge Central Library, Friday 19 July-Saturday 20 July. The event, which includes workshops, activities, archaeology, is part of What is a good death?, a research and public impact project at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, bringing past […]
Continue ReadingCALL FOR PAPERS: ‘Climate Fictions / Indigenous Studies’, 24-25 January 2020, University of Cambridge
Critical Indigenous studies can neither be perceived as niche, nor trivialized as topical. In the way climate-capitalism has become an existential threat, a sincere engagement with Indigenous knowledges has become ineluctable. This conference seeks to initiate a multidisciplinary conversation on climate change, as conceived by, and re-inscribed within, Indigenous literatures. So far within the small […]
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita’s monograph ‘Provisional Avant-Gardes’ out now from Stanford University Press, July 2019
Sophie Seita, Provisional Avant-Gardes: Little Magazine Communities from Dada to Digital (Stanford University Press, 2019) What would it mean to be avant-garde today? Arguing against the notion that the avant-garde is dead or confined to historically “failed” movements, this book offers a more dynamic and inclusive theory of avant-gardes that accounts for how they work […]
Continue ReadingSophie Seita performs Les Bijoux Indiscrets, or, Paper Tigers, 4.30pm, Saturday 6 July, SPACE, Mare St, Hackney
LIVE PERFORMANCE Sophie Seita performs Les Bijoux Indiscrets, or, Paper Tigers 4.30pm Sat 6 Jul, SPACE Mare St with: Emma Attwood, Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain, Simone Kearney, Erin Robinsong, Jocelyn Spaar, and Naomi Woo In her closing performance, artist Sophie Seita explores a whimsical and magical world of female friendship and immodesty, where jewels sing and books talk […]
Continue ReadingJamie Fenton awarded a place on the AHRC International Placement Scheme, June 2019
Jamie Fenton has been awarded a place on the AHRC International Placement Scheme, which will allow him to spend four months as a researcher at the Library of Congress from January 2020. The International Placement Scheme (IPS) is an annual programme providing Research Fellowships to AHRC/ESRC-funded doctoral students, early career researchers and doctoral-level research assistants. […]
Continue ReadingDr Ewan Jones awarded Riksbankens Jubileumsfond fellowship
Ewan Jones has been awarded a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond fellowship, which will permit him to spend the academic year 2019/2020 at the School of Advanced Study in Uppsala. During this time he will complete his second book, which gives an account of the history of the concept of rhythm. http://www.swedishcollegium.se/subfolders/News/2019/Fellows_2019-20_190618.html
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