Published this month: Medieval into Renaissance – Essays for Helen Cooper. A festschrift for Professor Helen Cooper, former Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English. The collection builds on and responds to the work of Professor Cooper, exploring the connections and intersections between medieval and renaissance literature. Edited by Andrew King & Matthew Woodcock Includes an essay by Dr […]
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Dr Andrew Zurcher Plenary Lecture Epistolary Cultures Conference
Dr Zurcher gives the Plenary Lecture at the Epistolary Cultures – Letters and Letter-writing in Early Modern Europe conference, University of York, Friday 18 March. Bringing together speakers from around the globe who are working on early modern letter writing and its networks, this conference explores the many aspects of early modern epistolary culture in the […]
Continue ReadingYvonne Salmon hosts Q&A with ‘High Rise’ Producer Jeremy Thomas
Yvonne Salmon FRSA FRGS FRAI hosts a Q&A with renowned producer Jeremy Thomas after a showing of the new film adaptation of J. G. Ballard’s novel High Rise at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, 6pm on Saturday 12th March. G. Ballard’s dystopian novel about society disintegrating within a giant tower block is brought to the screen […]
Continue ReadingProf Christopher Page Keynote at International Guitar Research Centre Conference
Professor Christopher Page will be a keynote speaker at the International Guitar Research Centre Conference, University of Surrey, 18 March to 23 March 2016. Some of the most distinguished and highly regarded scholars and musicians from around the world will gather for this major international conference featuring six public concerts, four keynote lectures, and over 50 lecture-recitals and academic papers.
Continue ReadingDr Marcus Waithe gives Gallery Talk on Ruskin And Craftsmanship
Dr Marcus Waithe gives a Lunchtime Talk on Ruskin and Craftmanship at the Millenium Gallery, Sheffield, on Monday 7 March 2016 at 1pm. Ruskin was a founding father of the Victorian Arts and Crafts movement, and he continues to inspire the makers of today. Dr Waithe’s talk examines Ruskin’s contributions to craftsmanship and the practical contribution […]
Continue ReadingProfessor John Kerrigan Publishes New Book: ‘Shakespeare’s Binding Language’
Professor John Kerrigan’s new book Shakespeare’s Binding Language will be published this month with Oxford University Press. The work, a state-of-the-art intervention into Shakespeare studies, offers a transformative account of a large number of Shakespeare’s plays. Making interdisciplinary use of historical, legal, and religious sources, Shakespeare’s Binding Language engages with new ideas about performance and ‘performativity’. “a massive, complicated and brilliant interpretation […]
Continue ReadingDr Ian Patterson Plenary Lecture at Obscure Modernism Conference
Dr Ian Patterson gives the plenary lecture at the Obscure Modernism Conference, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, Saturday 27 February. This one-day conference explores modernism, its practitioners and cultural products, under the aspect of their obscurity, understood in a variety of ways.
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon Hosts BBC Radio 3 & Wellcome Trust ‘Body of Essays’ Event
On Monday 29th February, Dr Sarah Dillon will host ‘Body of Essays‘, a collaboration between the Wellcome Trust and BBC Radio 3. The Wellcome Collection Reading Room will be the setting for a live recording of a series of Radio 3’s ‘The Essay’, in which five writers will ruminate on a different organ of the body. The […]
Continue ReadingFaith in Poetry, The Lent Term Sermon Series
On 21st February 2016, Dr Michael Hurley presents a talk on Faith in Poetry as part of the Lent Term Sermon Series at St Catharine’s College Chapel. Choral Evensong, 6pm Sundays, throughout Lent Term.
Continue ReadingDr Laura Wright Plenary Address at 3rd Southern Englishes Workshop
Dr Laura Wright will be a plenary speaker at the 3rd Southern Englishes Workshop at University College London on February 19-20 2016. Hosted by the Linguistics Department at UCL, the Workshop will explore historical and synchronic dialectology, historical and synchronic sociolinguistics, language contact, multilingualism, dialect in literature, and other areas relevant to English and varieties of English […]
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