Dr Jennifer Wallace gives the pre-Proms talk (with the poet Clare Pollard) on Wednesday 7 August . The title of the talk is ‘The power of tragic tales’ and it will be broadcast on Radio 3, during the interval of the live broadcast of Prom 26. Link to the Proms website.
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Trudi Tate organised two summer courses for Literature Cambridge: Virginia Woolf’s Gardens, 14-19 July 2019 and Fictions of Home: Jane Austen to Contemporary Refugee Writers, 21-26 July 2019.
The courses were attended by people from all over the world, with lectures, seminars, supervisions, talks, and visits to places of literary interest around Cambridge. Teachers included current and past Faculty members Oliver Goldstein, Alison Hennegan, Karina Jakubowicz, Isobel Maddison, Suzanne Raitt, Corinna Russell, Trudi Tate, Clare Walker Gore, and Kabe Wilson. Next year’s summer […]
Continue ReadingProfessor James Raven elected a Fellow of the British Academy, 2019
Professor James Raven has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Link to the British Academy website.
Continue ReadingA conversation between Hana Morgenstern and Sophie Seita to celebrate the launch of Sophie Seita’s ‘Provisional Avant-Gardes: Little Magazine Communities from Dada to Digital’, 6pm-8pm, Tenderbooks, Covent Garden, 14 August 2019
Literary Magazines and Communities: From the Anti-Colonial to the Avant-Garde A conversation between Hana Morgenstern and Sophie Seita to celebrate the launch of Sophie Seita’s Provisional Avant-Gardes: Little Magazine Communities from Dada to Digital (Stanford University Press, 2019). Followed by a drinks reception. Sophie Seita is an artist and academic whose practice spans text- and […]
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