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 […]
Continue ReadingJustine Provino organises a symposium on ‘Agrippa (a book of the dead)’, 18/19 May 2023
On the afternoons of 18 and 19 May, alongside Oxford’s Bodleian Library and the Centre for Material Texts Cambridge, Justine Provino (Jesus College, Cambridge) is organising a symposium on her PhD case study, the self-destructive artist’s book Agrippa (a book of the dead) by the writer William Gibson, the artist Dennis Ashbaugh and the publisher Kevin […]
Continue ReadingChurchill College Postdoctoral By-Fellowships 2023
Churchill College PostdoctoralBy-Fellowships 2023Churchill College intends to appoint up to 16 Postdoctoral By-Fellowsfrom the community of postdoctoral researchers of the University ofCambridge and its associated research institutes. The appointments willbe for up to three years from 1st October 2023.ProfilePostdoctoral By-Fellows contribute to a significant community of postdocs among theChurchill Fellowship. The College currently has 32 […]
Continue ReadingKathleen Hughes Memorial Lecture
Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Monday 1st May, 5 – 6.30 Faculty of English, 9 West Road, GR06/07, The Annual Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lecture, The Moral Economy in Early Medieval Ireland Dr Elizabeth Boyle, Maynooth University This event will be live-streamed, registration is required: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpd-CuqT0jH9RCuNOasu5yyXwn40Qk_LHX A reception will follow in the Faculty of English […]
Continue ReadingGylphi Contemporary Writers: Ali Smith Symposium
Gylphi Contemporary Writers: Ali Smith Symposium Wednesday 26 April, 10:00 – 18:00 GR06/07 Faculty of English, Gylphi Contemporary Writers: Ali Smith Symposium, a one-day symposium. Keynote: Dr Kaye Mitchell (Director of the Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester). This symposium, which will be attended by the author herself, intends to explore the critical and […]
Continue Reading‘Past Mirth, Present Laughter?
‘Past Mirth, Present Laughter?: Forms of Comedy 1300-1900: This event will be taking place on the 4th May, 9:30-18:00 English Faculty, GR06/07 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP ‘Past Mirth, Present Laughter?’ is a postgraduate Conference which seeks to bring the comic works of the past back into the critical spotlight of the present-day academy. ‘[One] […]
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