On 10th February, Dr Sarah Dillon will chair the Expert Group on ‘AI Narratives: Underrepresented Narratives’ at the second Global A.I. Governance Forum, hosted at the World Government Summit in Dubai. In recognition of the rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence technology and its implications for humanity, the aim of the Roundtable is to facilitate dynamic […]
Continue ReadingDr Trudi Tate gives a talk on ‘Women and Children, Love and Loss in “To the Lighthouse”‘, 12 February 2019, 1pm, Lucy Cavendish College
Trudi Tate of Clare Hall gives a talk on ‘Women and Children, Love and Loss in To the Lighthouse. Presented by Literature Cambridge and Lucy Cavendish College. Tuesday 12 February 2019, 1.00 pm. You can get lunch in the college dining hall at 12.30, if you wish. Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge CB3 0BU. Free and […]
Continue ReadingDr Leo Mellor is at the University of Freiburg to give a response to a lecture on “Scabs and Radicals: Toward a Cultural Morphology of the Lumpenproletariat”, 5 February 2019
Dr Leo Mellor gave a response to Professor Glyn Salton-Cox’s lecture on “Scabs and Radicals: Toward a Cultural Morphology of the Lumpenproletariat” at the University of Freiburg on 5 February 2019. This is part of Dr Mellor’s ongoing project on ‘the long 1930s’. https://www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/data/events/guest-lecture-prof.-glyn-salton-cox-uc-santa-barbara-201cscabs-and-radicals-toward-a-cultural-morphology-of-the-lumpenproletariat201d
Continue ReadingFaculty of English hosts ‘TRASH! Waste and Excess in Queer Cultures’, an interdisciplinary symposium exploring waste and excess in LGBTQ+ life and culture, organised by Dr Diarmuid Hester, Saturday 16 February, 2019
On Saturday 16 February the Faculty of English hosts ‘TRASH! Waste and Excess in Queer Cultures’, an interdisciplinary symposium exploring waste and excess in LGBTQ+ life and culture. Featuring contributions by leading scholars of literature, film, art history, and performance, it celebrates queer cultures’ remarkable, inventive employment of waste and garbage as artistic materials and […]
Continue ReadingAnanya Mishra, Graduate Student in the Faculty of English, helps initiate ‘Untold Histories Museum Tours’ at Cambridge University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Ananya Mishra, a third year PhD candidate working on comparative indigenous literatures, has collaborated with Danika Parikh and Akshyeta Suryanarayan, graduate students in the Department of Archaeology, to initiate ‘Untold Histories Museum Tours’ at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge. These tours look into the difficult histories of how objects came to be in […]
Continue ReadingDr Louise Joy awarded Crausaz Wordsworth Fellowship at CRASSH, Lent Term 2020
Dr Louise Joy has been awarded the Crausaz Wordsworth Fellowship at CRASSH for the Lent term, 2020. The Fellowship is awarded to academic staff in Cambridge who are not members of the Faculty of Philosophy to work on a philosophical topic. Her project is entitled ‘Enlightenment Progressivism: Literature, Education and Freedom’, and will examine the […]
Continue ReadingFilm Screening: ‘Now Circa (1918)’ directed by Redell Olsen, produced by Drew Milne – Friday 8 February 2019, 5pm, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, McCrum Theatre, off Benet Street. All welcome
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Film Screening: ‘Now Circa (1918)’ directed by Redell Olsen February 8th, 2019, 5.00 pm. McCrum Theatre, off Benet Street, Cambridge (behind the Eagle pub) ‘Now Circa (1918)’ was written and directed by Redell Olsen, produced by Drew Milne, and starring Catherine Lord, Caitlin Doherty, Saskia West, and Sophie Gilmartin. The screening […]
Continue Reading‘”Nothing Ever Just Disappears”: Innovative Queer Writing in America in the 1980s’ – lecture by Dr Diarmuid Hester for Cambridge Queer History Month, 4 February 2019, 6pm, Howard Theatre, Downing College
Dr Diarmuid Hester (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) will give a lecture for Cambridge Queer History Month on 4th February 2019 called, ‘”Nothing Ever Just Disappears”: Innovative Queer Writing in America in the 1980s’. It’s free and takes place in the Howard Theatre, Downing College at 6pm. More information available here: https://www.facebook.com/events/135620190712146/ The event is organised […]
Continue Reading‘A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets’, by David Grundy – forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic on 7 February 2019
A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets Forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic on 7th February 2019. “A vital hub of poetry readings, performance, publications and radical politics in 1960s New York, the Umbra Workshop was a cornerstone of the African American avant-garde. Bringing together new archival research and detailed close readings […]
Continue ReadingDr Laura Wright: Keynote Speaker at the Eleventh International Conference on Middle English, University of Florence, February 2019
Dr Laura Wright is a Keynote Speaker at the Eleventh International Conference on Middle English, which takes place at the University of Florence, 5-8 February 2019. The title of Dr Wright’s lecture is ‘On the Multilingual Background to Standard English’. https://www.icome11.unifi.it/index.php
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