Dr Rebecca Barr receives a Global Humanities Network Mobility Award to collaborate with the American University in Beirut

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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Screening 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 […]

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Simon 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 […]

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