Juliette Bretan writes for The Public Domain Review on Polish artist Witkacy’s chemical forays, including his 1932 book Narcotics, a genre-bending treatise that warns of the hazards of drugs while seductively recollecting their delirious effects. Link to essay: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/document Juliette Bretan is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of English and Newnham College.
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Poetry Spring at St John’s College: an afternoon of poetry workshops, discussions and readings with British and international poets on Saturday 30 April
Join us to welcome in Poetry Spring on Saturday 30 April at St John’s College, an afternoon of poetry workshops, discussions and readings with British and international poets. All the events are free but places must be booked. Poetry Spring is organised by Mina Gorji (Pembroke College) and Sasha Dugdale (St John’s College) and is funded by St John’s College and […]
Continue ReadingThe English Faculty and Newnham College hosted the First Story Young Writers Festival on Tuesday 29th March
350 KS 3 and 4 children from around the country spent the day in Cambridge working with professional writers on composing the story of their lives. Khadijah Ibrahim was MC in Lady Margaret Hall (appearance by Bonnie Lander Johnson and Phil Knox). The day finished with a showcase of students’ work, read from the big […]
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Continue ReadingPoetry @ Queens’ Arts Festival Monday 7 March, 7pm, Queens’ Fitzpatrick Gallery
Poetry readings by Verity Spott, David Grundy, Nick Ines Ward, Emma Gomis, Rosa van Hensbergen, Lewis Todd, Louis Klee, Reem Abbas, Paul Norris, Lewis Wynn, and others, in collaboration with Blackbirds Poetry Society. https://www.facebook.com/queensartsfestival/
Continue ReadingMert Dilek’s Turkish translation of ‘Bedroom Farce’ premieres at Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality City Theatre
Mert Dilek’s Turkish translation of Bedroom Farce has premiered at Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality City Theatre on 9 February 2022. Dilek, PhD candidate at Trinity College, was commissioned to translate Alan Ayckbourn’s play in June 2021. He also provided the cast and the creative team with dramaturgical guidance throughout the production process. The play’s Turkish version, titled […]
Continue ReadingDiscover Department of Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic events at the Cambridge Festival 2022
Saturday 2 April in person talks – GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Road Cambridge 2.00-2.30 The Norsemen and the Natives: Mutual Discovery in Vinland – Elizabeth Rowe 3.00-3.30 Taming the Landscape and Shaping Space: Medieval Irish Naratives of Place – Máire Ní Mhaonaigh 3.30-4.00 Into the Wild: Merlin in the Caledonian Forest – Francesco […]
Continue ReadingKasia Boddy, Bonnie Lander Johnson and Alice Wickenden talk about Cambridge Saffron at the Cambridge Festival, Wednesday 6 April
Cambridge Saffron: Stories, Images, Recipes Panel talk with Kasia Boddy, Bonnie Lander Johnson and Alice Wickenden Wednesday 6 April, 6pm-7.30pm Room GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge To book, go to https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/ A mask must be worn throughout the lecture. The lecture will also be live streamed. Register at https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rfuuqqDIpEtZiwENpfTtXpuburudb0Wqv
Continue ReadingInvitation to ‘The Arab Left Journal: Pedagogies in the Classroom and Beyond’, website launch and roundtable discussion, 4 March 2022
We would like to invite you to a roundtable on periodicals of the Arab left and decolonization from the 1950s to the 1980s with scholars Idriss Jebari, Zeina Maasri, Mezna Qato and Hana Morgenstern. A discussion on the critical role of Arab left journals in social, literary and cultural movements, as well as related […]
Continue ReadingPhilip Knox’s ‘The “Romance of the Rose” and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature’ is published with OUP
Philip Knox’s new book has been published in the new Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture series at OUP. The book looks again at fourteenth-century literary history from the perspective of a single text, the thirteenth-century French love allegory and medieval ‘bestseller’, the Romance of the Rose, and thinks about Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and […]
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