Michael J Sullivan, PhD candidate and former Harvard Visiting Fellow, publishes in Essays in Criticism: http://eic.oxfordjournals.org/content/66/4/431.full.pdf+html The article, entitled ‘Tennyson and The Golden Treasury’, examines Tennyson’s involvement in the most significant anthology of the nineteenth century.
Continue ReadingDr Joe Moshenska and Dr Edward Wilson-Lee in Conversation, 29 October 2016
Join a conversation with authors Joe Moshenska and Edward Wilson-Lee, whose recently published books – Moshenska’s A Stain in the Blood and Wilson-Lee’s Shakespeare in Swahililand – are centrally concerned with the relationship between the voyages we make and the reading that accompanies us. Saturday 29 October: 2:30-4pm Sidney Sussex College, Sidney Street, CB2 3HU. […]
Continue ReadingDr Joe Moshenska Reviews National Gallery Exibition on Caravaggio’s Influence, October 2016
On 13 October 2016, New Generation Thinker Dr Joe Moshenska appears on Radio 3 Free Thinking to review ‘Beyond Caravaggio’, the new exhibition on Caravaggio’s influence. ‘Beyond Caravaggio’ runs at The National Gallery, 12 October 2016 To 15 January 2017. The New Generation Thinkers scheme is run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and […]
Continue ReadingDr Robert Macfarlane curates ‘Conservation and Imagination’, September 2016 to January 2017
Dr Robert Macfarlane curates ‘Conservation and Imagination’, an exhibition in the David Attenborough Building, the university’s new centre for biodiversity conservation, running from September 22nd 2016 until the end of January, open to visitors.
Continue ReadingDr Jennifer Wallace & Dr Emily Kneebone Organise Symposium to Accompany Cambridge Greek Play, October 2016
Dr Jennifer Wallace (English) and Dr Emily Kneebone (Classics) are organising a day-long symposium to accompany the production of the Cambridge Greek Play double bill of Antigone and Lysistrata at the Arts Theatre. The symposium brings together Classicists, philosophers, literary and cultural critics, theatre directors and actors to discuss tragedy, comedy, politics and revolution and […]
Continue ReadingThe Alchemical Landscape @ CRASSH, 2016 / 2017
The Alchemical Landscape project has been awarded CRASSH Research Group status for the academic year 2016/2017. As part of a series of seminars across Michaelmas, Lent and Easter terms, on Tuesday 18 October, James Mackay (film producer) gives a talk entitled ‘Jarman and Cocteau: A Shared Vision’ (5pm, Seminar room S2, 2nd Floor, Alison Richard […]
Continue ReadingProfessor John Kerrigan gives the Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures 2016
John Kerrigan gives the Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures 2016, in the Examination Schools, High St, Oxford, on the first four Wednesdays of Michaelmas term, starting 12 October, at 5.15. His title is Shakespeare’s Originality. http://shakespeareoxford2016.co.uk/?post_type=book-events&p=1500
Continue ReadingDr Zoë Svendsen and METIS Arts bring ‘World Factory’ to Cambridge , October 2016
Following a sold out and extended run at the Young Vic in 2015, World Factory shines a light on ‘Made in China’ as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. World Factory is at Cambridge Junction from 18-21 October and then moves to Brighton and Manchester. Considering that adults make approximately 35,000 decisions per day, […]
Continue ReadingWelcome to the 2016 Cambridge Festival of Ideas
Booking is now open for the 2016 Cambridge Festival of Ideas. There are hundreds of events to choose from, including the following contributions from the Faculty of English: Friday 21 October, 6-7pm, GR06/07 – Poetry and Movement, Dr Laura Kilbride and Charlotte Lee Saturday 22 October, 7-8pm, Drama Studio – Headlands: From Fairy Folks to […]
Continue ReadingAmerican Writers at 9 West Road, October 2016: All Welcome
This October, the Faculty of English hosts a series of events with American Writers: Tuesday 4 October – English Faculty, Room G-R04, 4.30pm: Mark Greif, editor of n+1 and author of ‘In The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973’, will discuss his new book ‘Against Everything’. (Sponsored by American […]
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