Dr Hester Lees-Jeffries gives a pre-show lecture, ‘Setting the Scene’ for The Winter’s Tale, in London on Tuesday 2 October at 6pm. Dr Lees-Jeffries will introduce the play, with the support of a Globe actor. There will be music, romance, a baby, a bear, and a living statue (though not all of these will necessarily […]
Continue ReadingDihal and Dillon Win Major Grant from Templeton World Charity Foundation
Faculty members Dr Kanta Dihal and Dr Sarah Dillon have been awarded a major research grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to fund the Global AI Narratives project (GAIN) based at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, with Dr Stephen Cave and Dr Beth Singler. The project aims: to understand how different cultures and […]
Continue Reading2018 BBC Short Story Award with Cambridge University
Sarah Hall, prize-winning novelist and short story writer, has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University for the third time for ‘Sudden Traveller’. She won the award in 2013 for ‘Mrs Fox’ and was shortlisted for the first time in 2010 for ‘Butcher’s Perfume’. Both stories appeared in her debut […]
Continue ReadingDr Michael D Hurley speaks at 19th Biennial Conference for the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture, Uppsala, Sweden, September 2018
Dr Michael D Hurley speaks at The 19th Biennial Conference for the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture, held this year at Uppsala University and Stockholm School of Theology, in Sweden, 28-30 September, 2018. His paper is entitled, ‘Attunement to Truth in Literature’. http://isrlc2018.se/
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Read and Dr Claudia Tobin contribute to ‘Sorted!’, a brand new festival of talks at Cambridge University Botanic Garden, 25-27 September 2018
‘Sorted!’, a brand new festival launched by Cambridge University Botanic Garden to celebrate the opening of the Rising Path, brings together artists and art historians, botanic garden experts, scientists, historians, curators, horticulturalists, researchers and writers in order to explore how we sort and organise the natural world. Each day of the Festival is themed to […]
Continue ReadingDr Amy Morris discusses homelessness on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’, 12 September 2018
On Wednesday 12 September, Dr Amy Morris joins Laurie Taylor and other guests to discuss homelessness on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bh566s
Continue ReadingDr Edward Allen gives Keynote Lecture at ‘Symposium of Sound’, Durham University, September 2018
Dr Edward Allen gives a keynote lecture at the ‘Symposium of Sound’ in Durham (3-4 September 2018). His lecture is entitled ‘Catching that Jingling Feeling’. https://symposiumofsound.wordpress.com/conference-programme/ An interview with Dr Edward Allen, in which he explains how he first become interested in sound studies, is available here: https://symposiumofsound.wordpress.com/blog/
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