Poetry and Politics: Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Jesus College Free and open to all; from 11am to 4pm daily. The Marshall Room at Jesus College, Cambridge CB5 8BL Coleridge – poet, philosopher, critic, visionary, and one of Cambridge’s most famous students. He arrived at Jesus College in 1791, and left three years later without receiving […]
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E K Myerson curates ‘Anchorless Bodies: Navigating Arabic in Medieval Manuscripts’, Parker Library, 25 May-25 September 2023
Anchorless Bodies: Navigating Arabic in Medieval Manuscripts With Works by Emii Alrai: An Exhibition at the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, curated by E.K. Myerson, Parker Library ECRF. Alrai uses the phrase ‘Anchorless Bodies’ to describe her artworks, which draw inspiration from the debris of archaeological excavations, and from medieval astronomy. ‘Anchorless bodies’ are displaced […]
Continue ReadingBonnie Lander Johnson speaks on the ‘Things Unseen’ podcast, April 2023
Bonnie Lander Johnson spoke with Christopher Jameson about Easter and the relationship between early modern agricultural practices and the liturgical year, on the Things Unseen podcast. Click here for further information and to listen to the podcast.
Continue ReadingBonnie Lander Johnson chairs the inaugural ‘Room of One’s Own’ Lecture, 23 April 2023
Bonnie Lander Johnson chaired the inaugural Room of One’s Own Lecture, a collaboration between Newnham College and the Cambridge Literary Festival. Ali Smith delivered the lecture in Newnham’s Clough Hall where, almost 100 years ago, Woolf spoke on ‘women and fiction’. Woolf was invited to speak by Newnham students and her lecture went on to […]
Continue ReadingNicolette Zeeman gives the Annual Riddy Lecture, University of York, 24 May 2023
Nicolette Zeeman is giving the Annual Riddy Lecture at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York on 24th May, entitled ‘The Other Courtly Figure: Medieval Paradiastole‘. Link to further information: https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/events/archive/2023/riddylecture24may/
Continue ReadingLaunch of new magazine, edited by the Downing English Society and Bonnie Lander Johnson, April 2023
Downing College launches the first issue of The Leaves, a magazine of prose, poetry, drama and visual art by Downing students. The magazine is edited by the members of the Downing English Society and Fellow in English, Bonnie Lander Johnson. Link to further information: https://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/news/english-society-launches-new-literary-magazine
Continue ReadingBhanu Kapil is the keynote speaker at ‘Poetry, Representation and the Archive’, UEA, 25 May 2023
On May 25th, Bhanu Kapil will be the keynote speaker for a one day conference at the University of East Anglia (‘Poetry, Representation and the Archive’). The conference is organised as part of the ‘Towards a Centre for Contemporary Poetry in the Archive’ pilot project, funded by the Mellon Foundation at the British Archive for […]
Continue ReadingMert Dilek’s musical ‘1923’ premieres at Zorlu Performing Arts Center in Istanbul
1923, a new Turkish musical whose book has been co-written by Mert Dilek, premiered to great acclaim at Istanbul’s Zorlu Performing Arts Center on 23 April 2023. Dilek, PhD candidate at Trinity College, was commissioned to write the work with Yekta Kopan and Mehmet Ergen in commemoration of the centenary of the founding of the Turkish […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Clare Pettitt gives the Annual Stevenson Lecture, University of London, 2 May 2023
Professor Clare Pettitt gave the Annual Stevenson Lecture on 2 May 2023, at Senate House, University of London.
Continue ReadingProf Clare Pettitt to give a plenary at the EsPrit Conference in Leeds in June:
The Leeds School of Arts, in partnership with the University of Central Lancashire, is delighted to host the 11th conference of the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit). This year’s theme will explore the notion of belonging to a family, a local culture, or a national, regional, and international group, intrinsic to periodical studies. If […]
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