Professor Christopher Page will be a keynote speaker at a conference on Performing Knowledge being held at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge on April 25-26, 2016. Bringing together performing musicians engaging in practice-led research, ethnographers of Western art music, and psychologists specialising in tacit knowledge research, this two-day conference explores performers’ interpretative processes and their uses of tacit knowledge […]
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Dr 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 ReadingDr Edward Wilson-Lee at Bath Festival of Literature
Dr Edward Wilson-Lee speaks to author and broadcaster Jenni Mills about his new book Shakespeare in Swahililand at the Independent Bath Festival of Literature on Thursday 3 March, from 4.30 to 5.30. Shakespeare in Swahililand, published on 10 March with HarperCollins, is the story of a search across eastern and central Africa to recover the extraordinary and unknown story of 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 […]
Continue ReadingGhost Noise: Technology, Paranormality and the Horror of Media
As part of the Multiverse Autumn Residency Event at Wysing Arts Centre, Dr James Riley presents ‘Ghost Noise’, a speculative talk dealing with cybernetics and paranormality. The talk is followed by a Q+A with residency artist Paul Purgas (Emptyset). The event also features presentations and screenings from Wysing’s current artists in residence and further invited speakers: Essi Kausalainen, […]
Continue ReadingFestival of Ideas – The Alchemical Landscape
Contemporary writers, film-makers and musicians are increasingly investing the English landscape with notions of magic and the occult. As part of this year’s Cambridge Festival of Ideas, Yvonne Salmon and Dr James Riley present a field guide to this ‘geographic turn’. The Alchemical Landscape Faculty of English, GR06/07 24 Oct 2015, 6:30pm – 7:30pm This event is featured as part […]
Continue ReadingEverything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon
Mark McGurl, Stanford University, Author of The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon Thursday 4th June at 5.30pm Room G06/7, English Faculty, 9 West Road, Cambridge. Organised by the Contemporary Research Group. See poster for more information
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