Excavating Media: Devices, Processes, Apparatuses An interdisciplinary conference addressing new approaches to media theory and history.Venue: Faculty of English, University of CambridgeDates: 30th June – 1st July 2017Media often escape articulation, even as they shape articulation itself. Today, we increasingly express ourselves through and within digital media, yet our critical vocabulary for these devices, their processes, and the apparatuses in which they are […]
Continue ReadingDr Robert Macfarlane Collaborates On Feature Film
Dr Robert Macfarlane has written the script for Mountain, a film which explores the powerful force that mountains hold over the imagination of so many. Mountain is directed by Jennifer Peedom. Voiced by Willem Dafoe, it features a score performed by the Australian Chamber Orchestra. The World Premiere takes place at the Sydney Opera […]
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita curates ‘A Century of Avant-Garde Little Magazines’, June 2017
Currently on display in the Cambridge English Faculty exhibition space is a selection of some of the most fascinating, rare, important, and often forgotten avant-garde magazines from the early twentieth century all the way up to the present day. ‘A Century of Avant-Garde Little Magazines’ celebrates the crucial and multifarious contributions magazines have made not […]
Continue ReadingDr Leo Mellor Invited to Give Paper at (Un)Civil War?, June 2017
Dr Leo Mellor has been invited to give a paper on June 17th at (Un)Civil War?, a two-day colloquium at the University of St Andrews. (Un)Civil War? will examine conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries in order to question perceptions of civility, violence, commemoration and human rights during war and ‘peace’. https://uncivilwarcolloquium.wordpress.com/ https://uncivilwarcolloquium.wordpress.com/2017/04/26/doctor-leo-mellor/
Continue ReadingPoetry Reading in the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio: 12 June 2017, 7pm
Hosted by Sophie Seita Readers: Caspar Heinemann, Luke McMullan, and Wendy Lotterman Caspar Heinemann is an artist, writer and poet based in Berlin. They are interested in queer mysticism, critical eco-poetics, and countercultural aesthetics. Recent events include readings at the Serpentine Miracle Marathon, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, and Basis voor Aktuele Kunst, Utrecht. They have […]
Continue ReadingTennyson and the Victorian Literary Canon: New Manuscript Uncovered by Michael J. Sullivan
A rediscovered revision copy of The Golden Treasury reveals the enduring influence of Alfred, Lord Tennyson on the English literary canon. Michael Sullivan, a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of English, has discovered a revision copy of Britain’s best-known poetry anthology, The Golden Treasury, which sheds new light on the development of the English literary […]
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon to give Plenary Lecture at David Mitchell Conference
Dr Sarah Dillon is to give the keynote address at an International Conference on contemporary author David Mitchell, to be held at the University of St Andrews on Saturday 3rd June. Sarah will be delivering a paper on the politics of adaptation.
Continue ReadingJessica Lim and Jen Aggleton convene ‘The Children’s Book as Material Object’, 10 May 2017
Jessica Lim (Faculty of English) co-convened the symposium ‘The Children’s Book as Material Object’ with Jen Aggleton (Faculty of Education) on Wednesday 10 May. There were over 60 attendees, with presenters flying in from North America and Poland. The symposium included a keynote by Philip Nel from Kansas State University; an exhibition display set up […]
Continue ReadingDr Robert Macfarlane awarded British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
Dr Robert Macfarlane has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. The fellowship, for the 2017-18 academic year, will allow Dr Macfarlane to complete Underland, a book on subterranea and the Anthropocene, and move forwards with a book called Unsettlement, about broken ground and the landscape-eerie.
Continue ReadingDr Orietta Da Rold awarded British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
Dr Orietta Da Rold has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. The fellowship, for the 2017-18 academic year, will allow Dr Da Rold to explore the coming to England of paper. The emphasis of the project is on how paper influenced changes to communication processes before printing. It will consider the earliest evidence for […]
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