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 […]
Continue ReadingMigrant Knowledge, Early Modern and Beyond: 15th-17th September 2019
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 ReadingDr 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 […]
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