After a successful first term the Alchemical Landscape seminar continues into 2017. The series will begin on Tuesday January 17th with a talk by the author Prudence Jones: ‘The Landscape as Oracle-Astrology and the Enchanted Cosmos’. 5pm, Tuesday 17 January 2017, Seminar room SG2, Alison Richard Building. All welcome. For more information see: www.prudencejones.co.uk and […]
Continue ReadingDr James Riley writes about Prisoner B-33920 for ‘The i’ Newspaper
Following on from the recent news regarding the declining health of the notorious prisoner and cult-leader, Charles Manson, Dr Riley was approached to write an opinion piece for ‘The i’ newspaper. He was approached on the basis of his current research interests in the late-1960s and previous publications on Manson. The article appeared in the […]
Continue ReadingCFP: ‘The Children’s Book as Material Object’ symposium, Wednesday 10 May 2017
CFP for the ‘Children’s Book as Material Object’ symposium, to be held on Wednesday 10 May 2017. The keynote speaker is Phil Nel from Kansas State University, and this is the website: https://bookobject.wordpress.com/
Continue ReadingPhD candidate Holly Corfield Carr is Poet-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust from January to February 2017
PhD candidate Holly Corfield Carr is Poet-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust from January to February 2017, supported by the Clarissa Luard Award for writers under 35. Holly will be working with the archives and collections held at the Jerwood Centre and contributing to the Wordsworth Trust’s Heritage Lottery Fund project, ‘Reimagining Wordsworth’. She will also […]
Continue ReadingTennyson and the Victorian Literary Canon: New Manuscript Uncovered by Michael J. Sullivan
Michael J. Sullivan, a doctoral candidate and former Harvard Visiting Fellow, has identified Tennyson’s revision copy of The Golden Treasury, the most significant anthology of the nineteenth century. In an article published in Literary Imagination, he excavates its importance for Tennyson’s style and for the anthology’s textual history. The manuscript sheds new light on Tennyson’s […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Angela Leighton gives the 3rd Dyson Lecture, 31 January
The 3rd Dyson Lecture will be given by Professor Angela Leighton on 31 January, in the Old Library, Pembroke College, at 5pm. The title of her lecture will be: ‘Who Called?’ Recalling Walter de la Mare. Professor Leighton has published widely in criticism and poetry. Her books include, among many others, On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism […]
Continue Reading‘Thinking about Knowing’: Professor Steve Connor Records Podcast for British Academy, January 2017
As part of the British Academy’s first ‘From our Fellows’ podcast of 2017, Professor Connor offers a short reflection on how academics decide on their next area of research. The British Academy have called the podcast ‘Thinking about Knowing’. https://soundcloud.com/britishacademy/from-our-fellows-03-january-2017#t=23:21
Continue Reading“From Swing to Afro-Futurism: A Series of Film Screenings”, English Faculty Building
Venue: Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, English Faculty Building Dates: Tuesday, 31 January; Tuesday, 7 February; Tuesday, 14 February Time: 7.15 pm – 9 pm From Swing to Afro-Futurism: A Series of Film Screenings is a succession of events that supplement the exhibition Reclaiming the Legends: Myth & The Black Arts Movement (currently showing in […]
Continue ReadingNew Exhibition at Faculty of English – “Reclaiming the Legends: Myth & The Black Arts Movement”
Venue: English Faculty Building, First Floor Dates: Monday, 16 January – Friday, 17 February Reclaiming the Legends: Myth & The Black Arts Movement explores the mythical and spiritual dimension of the artistic ethos of the Black Arts Movement (1960s-1975). The display includes a range of material related to anthropology & egyptology, revisionist history, spiritualism & […]
Continue ReadingBooking now open for Crossroads of Knowledge: Early Modern Literature and Natural Philosophy, March 2017
Crossroads of Knowledge: Early Modern Literature and Natural Philosophy 3 March 2017 – 4 March 2017 SG1, Alison Richard Building Registration online via this link: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27058 Deadline Monday 27 February 2017 This conference is part of the research project, Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature, a five-year ERC-funded project based at […]
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