CALL FOR PAPERS: New Postcolonial Concerns: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop 15 June 2019 | Faculty of English, University of Cambridge Keynote Speaker: Ruvani Ranasinha (KCL)  Abstracts due: 14 April 2019 ****** Our planet faces testing times. The challenges ahead increasingly converge: the destruction of our global environment and its uneven impact, the transnational ascension of […]

Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and his World: A Conversation, edited by Dr Subha Mukherji, is published by Medieval Institute Publications/De Gruyter in March 2019. The book launch is at the Shakespeare Association of America, Washington DC.  

Crossroads of Knowledge team present a panel on ‘Knowledge at the Crossroads’ at the Renaissance Society of America’s Annual Conference in Toronto, March 17-19, 2019 https://rsa.confex.com/rsa/2019/meetingapp.cgi/Session/1770 March 19, 2-3.30, Knowledge at the Crossroads. Organiser, Chair and Respondent: Subha Mukherji. Speakers: Joe Jarrett, George Oppitz-Trotman, Regina Schwartz .

Steven Connor’s book The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing is published by Reaktion on 11th March. The book is a psychopathology of intellectual life, which explores the emotional inner life of knowledge—the lusts, fantasies, dreams, and fears that the idea of knowing provokes. It includes discussions of the imperious will […]

Amy Morris joins artists, activists and scholars at the Essex Book Festival on 12 March 2019. She will be participating in a roundtable, during an evening of film, poetry, photography and discussion to launch the book Thinking Home: Interdisciplinary Dialogues edited by Sanja Bahun and Bojana Petrić. The event will take place in the Lakeside […]

  The lecture is a ticketed event, and tickets may be purchased here: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/events/1/weird-science-and-the-search-for-god

Dr Zoë Svendsen is a member of the panel discussing Environmental Issues at a Workshop on ‘Creative Economy: Critical Perspectives’. organised by the  Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) at The Lighthouse, Glasgow, on Friday 1 March 2019 Agenda 10.30: Coffee and registration 11.0: Plenary talk—Kate Oakley 11.45:Environmental Issues—Panel discussion w Mark Banks, […]

Sophie Seita and Joanna Walsh will be in conversation at Bletchley Park, talking about technological futures, feminism, and their own creative practices. https://www.epay.ed.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/college-of-humanities-and-social-science/school-of-literatures-languages-and-cultures/literatures-languages-cultures/out-of-the-air-women-creativity-and-intelligence-work