Professor James Raven has received the prestigious 2025 Wenjin Book Award, for his edited book ‘The Illustrated History of the Book’. The annual prize, awarded by the National Library of China, is considered one of the country’s highest literary honours. Titles selected for the award combine in-depth research with writing aimed at the general public. […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Subha Mukherji at HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 2025 at Hay-on-Wye
Professor Subha Mukherji joins Natalya Din-Kariuki, Issam Kourbaj and Rowan Williams for a panel at HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2025, on 25 May, to talk about Migrant Forms. Link to further information: https://howthelightgetsin.org/events/journeys-into-the-unknown-19156
Continue ReadingAnthony Bale speaks at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Professor Anthony Bale is a guest speaker in a symposium on ‘holy sites in post-crusader Palestine’ at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 21-22 May 2025. The symposium is part of a Swiss National Science Foundation Advanced Grant, Holy Networks: Locating, Shaping, and Experiencing Palestinian Loca Sancta (1187-1852). The subject of Professor Bale’s talk is scopic […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Subha Mukherji gives the key-note lecture at the 15th IASEMS Conference
Professor Subha Mukherji gives the key-note lecture at Waters: Fluidity and Crossing in Shakespeare and Early Modern Texts, the 15th conference of IASEMS (Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies), which takes place in Lecce from 16-17 May 2025. The title of Professor Mukherji’s paper is: ‘”Weary of solid firmness”: early modern crossings and […]
Continue ReadingDr Trudi Tate is the editor of the new Oxford World’s Classics edition of ‘Mrs Dalloway’
Dr Trudi Tate has written the introduction and notes to a new Oxford World’s Classics edition of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, marking the centenary of the book’s first publication in May 1925. Trudi gave a keynote lecture on Mrs Dalloway at the annual conference of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain in April 2025.
Continue Reading‘Orlando: A Pornobiography’ – Research Events, Theatre-Making Masterclasses, and a New Performance from piss / CARNATION (’52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals’ and ‘Ugly Sisters’)
Orlando: A Pornobiography – Research Events, Theatre-Making Masterclasses, and a New Performance from piss / CARNATION (52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals and Ugly Sisters) With the support of the Judith E Wilson Fund, the multi-award-winning trans theatre collective piss/CARNATION (52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals and Ugly Sisters) are returning to Cambridge to develop their new […]
Continue ReadingRoss Wilson organises ‘A Lecture by John Guillory’ and ‘Stefan Collini and John Guillory in Conversation’
Along with Professor Stefan Uhlig (University of California, Davis, and Derek Brewer (Visiting Fellow, Emmanuel College), Ross Wilson has organised a public lecture by Professor John Guillory (New York University) and a conversation between Professor Guillory and Professor Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge). Professor Guillory’s lecture is entitled ‘”It’s not what you know, it’s who […]
Continue ReadingDr Bonnie Lander Johnson publishes ‘Vanishing Landscapes: The Story of Plants and How We Lost Them’ (Hodder Press, 2025)
Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson publishes Vanishing Landscapes: The Story of Plants and How We Lost Them (Hodder Press, 2025).
Continue ReadingJuliette Bretan presents a BBC Radio 3 ‘Sunday Feature’: Tango Goes East
Juliette Bretan traces tango’s musical journey eastwards to Poland and beyond. A frenzied, interwar explosion of creativity that still echoes today with some unexpected revivals. Tango Goes East will be broadcast on Radio 3 on Sunday 27 April at 7.15pm.
Continue ReadingRoss Wilson edits ‘Percy Shelley in Context’ (Cambridge University Press)
Ross Wilson has edited Percy Shelley in Context, which is published by Cambridge University Press on 24th April. With 40 contributors from seven countries, this volume draws together leading experts and emerging voices on the life and work of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822). The volume shows Shelley to have been a writer in the broadest […]
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