University of Cambridge Contemporary Research Group
‘Film as Art and Activism: the Case of Recent Palestine Solidarity Cinema
Alice Munro: Short Stories and the Nobel Prize
Thursday 3 July
1.15pm, Meeting Room, Clare Hall
You might like to read some of the stories in Munro’s Lying Under the Apple Tree (2104) in advance, but this is not essential.
A conversation about Munro between Dame Gillian Beer, Honorary Fellow and Louise Ells, Anglia Ruskin University.
Part of Clare Hall’s Canada Week
http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/seminarsevents/cultural-celebrations/canada-week/
You are invited to a talk by Rachel Calder, Literary Agent
http://www.sayleliteraryagency.com/
She will talk about the history of her agency (founded in 1896 by J. B Pinker) and about the role of literary agents today.
Fri. 20 June, 6 pm
West Court, Clare Hall, Herschel Road, CB3 9AL
All welcome. Wine will be served.
You are welcome to pass on this invitation to anyone else who might be interested.
Next year, we plan to host talks and readings by Christine Koning, Susan Sellers, Angela Leighton, Ian Patterson, Simon Jarvis and others tbc.
Seminars in the History of Material Texts
Peter Mandler (History) will speak on the advent of mass-market non-fiction paperbacks.
Thursday May 1st at 5.30 pm, SR-24 (second floor), Faculty of English, 9 West Rd
PARNELL LECTURE Tuesday 25th February 5.15 p.m. Cripps Theatre, Cripps Court, Magdalene College CLAIR WILLS ‘Late Style Irish Style: Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Problem of Belatedness’. Clair Wills is Professor of Irish Literature at Queen Mary University of London and this year's Parnell Fellow, Magdalene College. Recent publications include Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO (2009) and That Neutral Island: A History of Ireland during the Second World War (2007). Cripps Court is on the left fifty yards or so up Chesterton Lane/Chesterton Road from the traffic lights at the foot of Castle Hill.
There will be a day of lectures, poetry readings and discussion to commemorate and assess the achievement of SEAMUS HEANEY, on Tuesday, 4 March in the Sir Humphrey Cripps Theatre, Cripps Court, Magdalene College. Among participants are the leading Irish historian Roy Foster, the poets Michael Longley, Gillian Clarke, Bernard O'Donoghue, Don Paterson and Leontia Flynn, and the critics Edna Longley and Declan Kiberd. For a full programme see http://www.magdalenecambridge.com/heaney This e-mail comes early because, although the sessions are open to all and free of charge, advance booking - which can be done electronically - is requested, by 21 February. See http://files.magdalenecambridge.com/pdfs/Events/Seamus%20Heaney%20Commemoration%20-%20BOOKING%20FORM%20.pdf Any questions to John Kerrigan on jk10023
Wednesday 19 February 2014, at 5.30 p.m., in the University Library’s Milstein Seminar Rooms The poet and literary critic J. H. Prynne, together with teacher and author Ian Brinton, will speak to the Friends of Cambridge University Library on the Cambridge Poets’ Papers project, which aims to archive the papers of prominent Cambridge poets in the University Library. Non-members are welcome; the admission charge is £3.50, or free to junior members of the University. This event will coincide with a display of materials relating to John Riley's poem 'Czargrad' in the Library's Entrance Hall: for more information see the link from <https://exhibitions.lib.cam.ac.uk/> from 17 February.
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