Paper-Stuff: Materiality, Technology and Invention 10-11 September 2018 University of Cambridge, Faculty of English Under the auspices of the Centre for Material Texts and the Writing Britain Conference Series The introduction of paper to the West was a major technological innovation that transformed the ways in which texts of all kinds were transmitted. Having proved […]
Continue ReadingPolyphonic Exhibition – videos, broadsides, Poets Theater materials, Faculty of English, June 16-through August
Currently on display in the Cambridge English Faculty exhibition space (first floor) are a number of video works (selected by Dr Sophie Seita), broadsides (published by Ian Heames), and Poets Theater materials (compiled by Kevin Killian)—in conjunction with the Polyphonic Poetry and Performance Festival, curated by Lee Ann Brown and Tony Torn.
Continue ReadingDr Subha Mukherji and Dr Tim Stuart-Buttle edit ‘Literature, Belief and Knowledge in Early Modern England: Knowing Faith’, published May 2018
Our book series with Palgrave Macmillan, Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature (general editors: Holmes, R. E., Mukherji, S., Stuart-Buttle, T., Swann, E. L., Tomlin, R.), has now launched with the e-book publication of the first volume in the series on 21 May 2018. Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature rewrites the story of early modern […]
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon to present at CogX: The Festival of All Things AI, Blockchain and Emerging Technologies
As part of her work as a Senior Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and co-Project Lead of the AI Narratives Project, Dr Sarah Dillon is taking part in CogX 2018, a major festival of AI and emerging technologies being held in London on Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th June. […]
Continue Reading‘Law and the Arts: Staging Law, Performing Trials’, 3 July 2018, Old Divinity School, St John’s College, University of Cambridge
Law and the Arts: Staging Law, Performing Trials 3 July 2018 Old Divinity School, St John’s College, University of Cambridge A three-part public event embedded in the conference, Law and Poetics in Early Modern England and Beyond (2-4 July, 2018). This event, involving actors, visual artists and legal professionals, comprises: a professional performance event directed […]
Continue Reading‘Deconstruction, Feminism, Film’ – New Book by Sarah Dillon
Dr Sarah Dillon’s new book, Deconstruction, Feminism, Film is published this month with Edinburgh University Press. The writings of Jacques Derrida have had a profound but complex influence on both film studies and on feminism. In the first work of its kind, Deconstruction, Feminism, Film explores the interconnections between these three fields through detailed filmic and philosophical close […]
Continue Reading‘Law and Poetics in Early Modern England and Beyond’, 2–4 July 2018, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
Law and Poetics in Early Modern England and Beyond 2–4 July 2018 Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge Law and Literature has come of age, evolving from the vexations of the early 1990s into a thriving field across periods, with the English Renaissance still a major locus. With the authority and intellectual security this progress gives […]
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