CALL FOR PAPERS: Revolutionary Papers: Counter-Institutions, Politics and Culture in Periodicals of the Global South Date: Thursday 23 April – Friday 24 April 2020 Venue: Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa Deadline for Abstracts: 30 November 2019 to revolutionarypapers@gmail.com This workshop is co-organised by Centre for Humanities Research and Department […]
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Dr Priyamvada Gopal contributes to Guardian feature ‘From emperors to inventors: the unsung heroes to celebrate in Black History Month’, October 2019
Dr Priyamvada Gopal is one of eight black academics and cultural commentators asked by The Guardian to pick watershed moments and fearless people to be honoured in Black History Month. Dr Gopal chose George William Gordon as her unsung hero to celebrate. Link to Guardian article.
Continue ReadingA Great Recorded History: A Queer Cambridge Audio Trail
Join us to celebrate the launch of this exciting new queer Cambridge audio trail. Created by Dr Diarmuid Hester (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English) this free, self-guided one-hour audio trail reveals the rich and often radical history of LGBTQ+ Cambridge. Explore the city’s long-forgotten queer spaces and places, guided by the memories of queer […]
Continue ReadingDr Laura Davies and Dr Emma Salgard Cunha launch their new website and resource ‘A Good Death?’, 23 September 2019
Dr Laura Davies and Dr Emma Salgard Cunha launched their new website and resource ‘A Good Death?’ today. Their project looks to the literature of the past to encourage new reflections on how individuals, including those closely affected by death and dying, can find languages and spaces to explore the idea of dying well, and […]
Continue ReadingDr Jason Scott-Warren suggests that the handwriting on a Shakespeare First Folio in Philadelphia matches that of the ‘Paradise Lost’ poet, John Milton, September 2019
Scholars believe that they have identified John Milton’s copy of the First Folio of Shakespeare. This copy of the first large-format (folio) edition of Shakespeare’s plays, published in 1623, has been housed in the Free Library of Philadelphia since 1944, when it was donated to the library by the Widener family. It has been known […]
Continue ReadingSarah Jilani speaks at ‘Bright Nights: Empire!’, an after-hours public event at Kensington Palace, 29 October 2019
‘Bright Nights: Empire’ is an evening of discussions, sensory experiments, workshops, performances and demos to explore the legacy of Queen Victoria and Empire on the 200th anniversary of her birth year. Sarah Jilani speaks on how her field was shaped by the British Empire, and questions the makings of Englishness through literature. Link to event […]
Continue Reading‘Philosophy, Poetry, and Utopian Politics: The Relevance of Richard Rorty ‘, 12-13 September 2019, SG1/2, CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge
This interdisciplinary conference on Rorty and his work is taking place on 12-13 September, at CRASSH. It features talks on, amongst other topics, Rorty’s interpretations; Rorty, Latour, criticism and method; Rorty’s storytelling; and on self-creation and human error. Link to website.
Continue ReadingDr Jennifer Wallace publishes new book: ‘Tragedy Since 9/11: Reading a World out of Joint’, September 2019
Dr Jennifer Wallace’s book Tragedy Since 9/11: Reading a World out of Joint, was published on 5 September 2019 by Bloomsbury. Link to Bloomsbury website The launch for the book in London is on Monday 9th September in Owl Bookshop in Kentish Town. There will be a Cambridge launch of the book at Heffers on […]
Continue Reading‘Migrant Knowledge, Early Modern and Beyond: an event at the Crossroads’: 15-17 September 2019, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, and Fitzwilliam College
This three-day public event brings together academics, artists, and activists to explore alternative ways of thinking and knowing about migration – of people, things, and ideas – rooted in the urgency of contemporary experience. It is part of the five-year ERC-funded project Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature, based at […]
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