WRITING DANCE WORKSHOPS: PRACTICE AS THEORY, THEORY AS PRACTICE 12 March 2020 Bringing together award-winning dancers, Clemmie Sveaas, Jonathan Goddard, Jasmine Chiu and CRASSH dance workshop collaborators, this practice-based workshop will explore how writing can be used to develop choreographic methods. As a group we will experiment by writing alongside dance, writing as dance stimuli […]
Continue Reading‘The Waves’: Pre-Show Discussion – Professor Dame Gillian Beer and Dr Trudi Tate in conversation with Sarah Taylor, Ellie Mitchell and others about Virginia Woolf’s novel, ‘The Waves’, Friday 28 February 2020, 6pm, ADC Bar
Professor Dame Gillian Beer and Dr Trudi Tate will be in conversation with Sarah Taylor, Ellie Mitchell and others about Virginia Woolf’s novel, The Waves, which Sarah Taylor has adapted for the ADC Theatre. Friday 28 February 2020, 6pm, ADC Bar . www.adctheatre.com/waves
Continue ReadingDr Michael D. Hurley gives the annual Religion & Literature Lecture at Notre Dame University on Monday 6 April 2020
Dr Michael D. Hurley gives the annual Religion & Literature Lecture at Notre Dame University. His lecture will explore Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Theodicy. Link to University of Notre Dame website
Continue ReadingThe Poetry Leap: an evening of poetry and translation with Juana Adcock, Mina Gorji, Bhanu Kapil, James Womack, Sasha Dugdale and Maria Stepanova, Saturday 29th February, Old Divinity School, St John’s College, Cambridge
The Poetry Leap: An evening of poetry and translation Old Divinity School, St John’s College Cambridge, CB2 1TP 18:00, Saturday 29th February 2020. Please join us on Leap Saturday, 29th February, from 6pm to hear readings from poets Juana Adcock, Mina Gorji and Bhanu Kapil, followed by a wine reception. From 8pm there will be […]
Continue ReadingDr Jennifer Wallace gives a talk on Keats, 1790s London and her novel “Digging Up Milton” at Keats House, Hampstead, 30 January 2020
Dr Wallace gives a talk entitled ‘Digging Up Milton: Keats, Milton and London 1790-1818′, at Keats House, Hampstead, on Thursday 30 January. Link to further information about the talk
Continue ReadingDr Subha Mukherji participates in the Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies Racial Diversity Forum, Shakespeare’s Globe, 25th January 2020
Dr Subha Mukherji participated in the Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies Racial Diversity Forum on Saturday 25th January, at the Nancy Knowles Lecture Theatre Shakespeare’s Globe, Bankside, London.
Continue ReadingQueer TRASH! at the Junction, Cambridge. 20 February 2020, 7.30pm. Pay What You Feel.
‘Baby, I am the garbage.’— James Schuyler Queer trash in a profusion of permutations, inhering in trash or adhering to queerness, in any case soiled and impure, gorgeously stained, promiscuous, perhaps, certainly fabulous, certainly sustainable. An evening of queer trash-themed performances by: Timberlina (Mother’s Ruin) Owen G Parry (Fan Riot) Roy Claire Potter (Shady Dealings […]
Continue ReadingThe Old Library at Magdalene College is open on Thursday 6th February from 11am to 1pm
The Old Library at Magdalene College is open on Thursday 6th February 2020 from 11am to 1pm. This is a chance to see the medieval building, with its collection of books dating back to the fifteenth century. There will be a special display, curated by M E J Hughes, on twentieth-century first editions in English […]
Continue ReadingDr Joe Jarrett publishes ‘Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama’ (Palgrave Macmillan)
Dr Jarrett’s book, Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama, has just been published with Palgrave Macmillan, in their series of books on Literature, Science and Medicine. It is the first book to examine the influence that sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century mathematical thinking exerted on the writing and production of early modern drama. It examines how the […]
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