The University Library has just launched an online exhibition called Cambridge Saffron, the product of a year-long project funded by the University’s Research and Collections Programme to investigate evidence of saffron cultivation & use in the libraries & archives of the city, colleges & university. Kasia Boddy & Bonnie Lander Johnson, of the English Faculty, & Alice […]
Continue ReadingYear: 2023
Call for Participants for ‘Paper and Poetry: Invention Through Craft’, deadline 31 March 2023
The symposium, which will take place 21-22 September 2023 at The Paper Foundation in Burneside, Cumbria, will bring together academics in any field who work on paper, with creative writers whose work is inflected by and responds to the materiality of their writing surfaces. Deadline to apply is Friday 31st March. Full details can be found here.
Continue ReadingTransplantations: Seeds, Plants and Gardens in the Contemporary Experience of Migration, Monday 23 January, 4-6pm, Faculty of English
TRANSPLANTATIONS: Seeds, Plants and Gardens in the Contemporary Experience of Migration Monday 23 January 4-6pm GR06/07 Ground floor English Faculty 9 West Road Cambridge Jennie Spears from the Lemon Tree Trust https://lemontreetrust.org/about/ and Adam Alexander the ‘Seed Detective’ https://theseeddetective.co.uk/my-book/ talk about their work protecting and propagating the stability of plants and people amid the global turbulence of […]
Continue ReadingCongratulations to Jen Pollard for winning a 2022 Cambridge University Professional Services Award
Jen Pollard, the Faculty of English Computer Officer, won her award in Category 2: Innovating and Improving. The Awards recognise and celebrate the very best work across all professional service areas in the University and the 2022 winners were announced at a ceremony at the Fitzwilliam Museum on 12 December. Link to the list of […]
Continue Reading