In ‘Lords and Sizars’, Episode 5 of Scenes from Student Life, Dr Wilson talks to recent graduate Ellie Cawthorne about Byron’s time at Trinity College and the class divide between student privilege and poor sizars in Byron’s time and today.
Continue ReadingPoetry Reading on Saturday April 30, 2016
Poetry Reading on Saturday 30 April, 2016. 8pm to 9.30pm in the Faculty of English Judith E Wilson Drama Studio. Featuring: Geoff Gilbert & Alex Houen, Chris Nealon and Sophie Mayer
Continue ReadingCMT Exhibition Space: Something New: Shakespeare in Eastern Africa
“Something New: Shakespeare in Eastern Africa” is an exhibition with just a few tantalizing samples of the extraordinary Shakespearean stories, texts, and events that have formed part of East African history over the past century and a half. Shakespearean works accompanied Victorian expeditions into the interior as their only reading, were among the first printed […]
Continue ReadingDr Edward Wilson-Lee at the Stratford Literary Festival, 29 April 2016
Dr Edward Wilson-Lee is at the Stratford Literary Festival on 29 April, taking part in ‘For All time – The Global Reach of Shakespeare’. In discussion, Dr Wilson-Lee, Bennet Brandreth and Gabriel Josipovici explore the extraordinary reach of Shakespeare’s global legacy, and look at how he is interpreted in wildly differing cultures. Dr Wilson-Lee also […]
Continue Reading‘ART / MONEY / CRISIS’ Conference at the Faculty of English and CRASSH, 29-30 April, 2016
The English Faculty hosts several forums from ART / MONEY / CRISIS, an international two-day conference based at CRASSH. The conference timetable includes artistic practitioners and academic speakers from disciplines including literature, sociology, economics, visual arts, cultural studies, anthropology, history, music, and politics. ART / MONEY / CRISIS features contributions from Faculty of English members […]
Continue ReadingFaculty of English Library and UL: Event for 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s Death
An all-ages event, with a special pop-up exhibition of Shakespeare-related materials. Come and hear (very) short informal talks by researchers in the Faculty of English on subjects ranging from the myth of Richard III, illustrated Shakespeare, women editing Shakespeare, and Shakespeare in Swaziland, illustrated by a wide range of items from the University Library’s holdings, […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Page Plenary Talk on Performance, Imagination and the Early-Romantic Guitar
Professor Christopher Page will be a keynote speaker at a conference on Performing Knowledge being held at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge on April 25-26, 2016. Bringing together performing musicians engaging in practice-led research, ethnographers of Western art music, and psychologists specialising in tacit knowledge research, this two-day conference explores performers’ interpretative processes and their uses of tacit knowledge […]
Continue ReadingDr Laura Wright: Shakespeare 400 Talk at St Andrew by the Wardrobe, London
Dr Wright talks on Shakespearean actors and their linguistic – and addictive – legacy at St Andrew by the Wardrobe Parish Church, London, on Monday April 25, 2016. This talk forms part of events at the church to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and celebrate his links with the parish. Shakespeare worked close […]
Continue Reading“Change and Exchange”: Faculty of English/CRASSH 2-day Colloquium at Trinity Hall
Organised by the Faculty of English and CRASSH, this two-day Colloquium explores ideas of change and exchange – and their implicit interrelation – across various early modern domains engaged with ways of knowing. Change and Exchange takes place at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, April 29-30 2016. The Convenors for this event are Dr Subha Mukherji, Dr […]
Continue Reading‘Lost Languages’ Film Evening at the Drama Studio with Sarah Wood
Sarah Wood is at the Judith E Wilson Drama Studio on 25 April to introduce a series of films about lost languages. Sarah Wood works with the found object, particularly the still and moving image, as an act of reclamation and re-interrogation. She works mainly with the documentary image to interrogate the relationship between the […]
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