The project seeks to investigate satire as ‘world literature’, as texts which circulate internationally, changing and acquiring meanings beyond those found in their initial cultural and historical context. The award will fund a preliminary visit to Beirut in Spring 2023. As part of that visit, Dr Barr will give a research seminar on William Hogarth […]
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Dr Diarmuid Hester’s documentary ‘Deeds and Words’ airs on BBC Radio 3
A feature documentary on art and activism in the suffrage movement by Dr Diarmuid Hester (Emmanuel) has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Dr Hester’s programme focuses on the work of Edith Craig, theatre producer, suffragette, and daughter of Ellen Terry, star of the Victorian stage. He travels to Smallhythe Place, where Craig lived with her […]
Continue ReadingScreening of ‘Submerged Reliquary of a Kentish Saint’: a new essay-film by Sophie Mei Birkin, Eleanor Myerson and Bartek Dziadosz, 2 December
Submerged Reliquary of a Kentish Saint: a new essay-film by Sophie Mei Birkin, Eleanor Myerson and Bartek Dziadosz When: 2 December 2022, 6.30pm Venue: Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, 43 Gordon Square The screening will be accompanied by a talk by Professor Robert Mills, author of Derek Jarman’s Medieval Modern (Boydell and Brewer, 2018). Followed by […]
Continue Reading‘Paper and Poetry: Invention Through Craft’ symposium receives a Judith E Wilson Practice-led Research Grant
The Paper and Poetry team is delighted to have been granted a Judith Wilson practice-led research grant for Paper and Poetry: Invention Through Craft: a symposium for academics and creative writers who work with paper. The Paper and Poetry team is made up of Orietta Da Rold (professor of medieval literature), Vona Groarke (poet-in-residence at St John’s […]
Continue ReadingBhanu Kapil and Fran Lock reading at the Barbican, 30th November
Bhanu Kapil and Fran Lock will be reading at the Barbican on November 30th, as part of an event curated by the87 press (The Uncollected), to accompany Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics.
Continue ReadingSimon Jackson publishes ‘George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture’, Cambridge University Press, December 2022
Simon Jackson, George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Publishing on 1 December Described by one contemporary as the ‘sweet singer of The Temple’, George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert’s own participation in seventeenth-century musical culture has yet to be examined in detail. This […]
Continue ReadingDr Eleanor Myerson moderates online event with artist Michael Rakowitz, 4 November
Dr Eleanor Myerson is co-hosting and moderating ‘Michael Rakowitz: (G)hosting’ with the Centre for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College on 4 November. This is an online event. Link to further information and to register: https://chra.bard.edu/event/michael-rakowitz/ Please note that the time listed is New York time. Dr Eleanor Myerson is the Parker Library […]
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