Dr Sophie Seita has been commissioned to make a new performance piece in response to a research project in Sociology and an exhibition at Murray Edwards on reproductive technologies and reproductive labour. Her piece Transpositions will reflect on the concept and choreography of transposition, queer kinship, corn as a queer plant, ritual, the ritornello, and the cross-pollinating possibilities of […]
Continue ReadingA Small Exhibition about Giants, curated by Dr Amy Morris (Faculty of English, 1 October– 9 November 2018)
What kinds of books have giants in them? How do they fit them in? Find out at the exhibition on the first floor of the English Faculty. There’s also a display board and mystery object in the English Faculty Library. The exhibition is curated by Dr Amy Morris and includes illustrated books from university and […]
Continue ReadingCANCELLED: Wolfson Humanities Society: ‘At the still point of the turning world’: Time and Place in the Medieval Dream
THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED: Dr Lotte Reinbold, Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Selwyn College, Cambridge, will be giving a talk entitled: ‘At the still point of the turning world’: Time and Place in the Medieval Dream’ The talk is on Tuesday, 9th October, at 6:00 in the Gatsby Room, Chancellor’s Centre, Wolfson […]
Continue Reading‘Carcanet Classics’ Book Launch, Tuesday 9 October 2018, 6.30pm, Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge
All are welcome to join the editors of three new Carcanet titles at an informal launch event (with refreshments) at Heffers Bookshop (Trinity Street) on Tuesday 9th October 2018, 18:30 to 20:00. WALTER PATER: Selected Essays, edited by Alex Wong JOHN HEATH-STUBBS: Selected Poems, edited by John Clegg PROPERTIUS: Poems, edited and translated by Patrick […]
Continue ReadingLaura McCormick Kilbride publishes ‘Swinburne’s Style: An Experiment in Verse History’, September 2018
Swinburne’s Style: An Experiment in Verse History establishes Swinburne’s significance in the historical development of English poetry from 1865 to the present. Situating Swinburne on the cusp of modernism, it argues that Swinburne had no personal style because he possessed all styles. His mastery of traditional verse forms promoted a level of stylistic self-awareness which […]
Continue ReadingDr Hester Lees-Jeffries introduces performance of ‘The Winter’s Tale’, Globe Theatre, London, 2 October 2018
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 […]
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