Avani Tandon Vieira (4th year PhD student) and Lauryn Anderson (2nd Year PhD student) have organised, along with their colleague Anna Corrigan in the Centre for Latin America Studies, the one day hybrid conference ‘activist/aesthetics’, to take place online and in Cambridge on June 2. The conference, which will bring together scholars, artists, practitioners and activists to reflect on the ‘aesthetic’ […]
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David Clifford hosts ‘Overcoming Class Barriers at Cambridge’ Symposium, Homerton College, 9-11 June 2023
Symposium, Homerton College, 9-11 June 2023. Free (via EventBrite; link below) ‘Overcoming Class Barriers at Cambridge’ This symposium aims to draw focus onto the experiences of students and academics from non-traditional, and in particular working-class, social backgrounds. Definitions of this are fluid, but would commonly include being first-generation, state-educated, and perhaps from schools/communities […]
Continue ReadingFour Cut Sunflowers Preview shows for the Official Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club Edinburgh Fringe Play 2023
FOUR CUT SUNFLOWERS AT CORPUS PLAYROOM https://www.adctheatre.com/sunflowers 15th and 17th June 2023, 9:30pm Preview shows for the Official Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club Edinburgh Fringe Play 2023 Four Cut Sunflowers: Van Gogh, stock image ‘ When light and dark converge, it is an act of creation…’. It’s the mid-19th century and Europe is being transformed by […]
Continue ReadingDr Leo Mellor speaks at the University of Regensburg on June 7th: The Apocalyptic Pastoral: Richard Jefferies’ After London; or Wild England (1885)
Dr Leo Mellor will speak at the University of Regensburg on June 7th on: ‘The Apocalyptic Pastoral: the significance of Richard Jefferies’ After London; or Wild England (1885). The lecture traces a strand of British literature and art in the twentieth-century, one which used the visionary nature of Jefferies’ thought experiment and imagined other cities […]
Continue ReadingLouise Joy, Highly Commended CUSU Student-Led Teaching Awards 2023
Congratulations to Louise Joy for being Highly Commended for Student Support (Academic) in the CUSU Student-Led Teaching Awards 2023: The ceremony was held at St Barnabas Church, Cambridge on Tuesday 16th May. https://www.cambridgesu.co.uk/news/article/cambridgesu/SLTA-Winners-announced/
Continue ReadingLaunch of a special issue of Criticism, June 2023
What‘s Critical About Critical Bibliography?: A discussion launching a special issue of Criticism edited by Kate Ozment and Lisa Maruca. Featuring an article by Dr Georgina Wilson,Research Fellow in Early Modern English Literature, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge 20 June, 5pm-6.15pm, BST. Online Registration https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/7XlM2tyS82WvvQDjJf_Vcg?t=1683643754
Continue ReadingBook Launch and ECA Publishing Workshop: The People of Print: Seventeenth-Century England, June 2023
Book Launch and ECA Publishing Workshop: The People of Print: Seventeenth-Century England In collaboration with the Centre for Printing History and Culture, Kaley Kramer, Adam James Smith, and Rachel Stenner invite you to join a virtual book launch for The People of Print: Seventeenth-Century England. The first in a series profiling under-studied figures in the book and print trades, this collection is now out with CUP. The book […]
Continue ReadingMark Wormald gives three talks to mark the paperback publication of ‘The Catch’
Mark Wormald is in Ireland to give three talks to mark the paperback publication of The Catch. Tuesday 2 May – University College Cork Thursday 4 May – Lexicon Dún Laoghaire Thursday 25 May – Seamus Heaney HomePlace at Bellaghy. Link for further information and tickets: The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes with Mark Wormald […]
Continue ReadingReem Abbas wins the 2022 RES essay prize
Reem Abbas’s MPhil thesis (graduated 2020) has won the Review of English Studies Essay Prize 2022. The print article is called ‘A “Polyphonic Score”: Basil Bunting’s Persian Condensations’ and can be read here. Reem Abbas is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of English and Jesus College.
Continue ReadingBonnie Lander Johnson gives the Ushaw Lecture at Durham University, 9 May 2023
Bonnie Lander Johnson gives the Ushaw Lecture at Durham University. She spoke about the forgotten women of the Catholic Literary Revival and how their life and work challenge our definition of modernist coterie. Link to further information: Ushaw Lecture May 2023 – Durham University
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