A Special Issue of writings from and inspired by: Arendt, Attridge, Barnett, Bhabha, Clarke, Deegan, Derrida, Evans, Heaney, Kanter, Mandela, Moltow, Ndebele, Nussbaum, Stimpson, Strathern, Tagore, New Voices and Editors. *How do we defend the Humanities? *How do we stave
Resources for English.
The Humanities without condition AHHE article by Derek Attridge
The Humanities without condition: Derrida and the singular oeuvre by Derek Attridge In an important lecture on the function of the Humanities, ‘The University without Condition’, Jacques Derrida asks what it means to ‘profess’ the truth and advocates a commitment
Conf. Programme English: Shared Futures Wed 5th-Fri 7th July Newcastle, UK
THE STUDY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, LANGUAGE AND CREATIVE WRITING IS AN IMPORTANT AND DYNAMIC ENTERPRISE. We will celebrate the discipline’s intellectual strength, diversity and creativity and explore its futures in the nations of the UK and across the world. Wednesday
ENGLISH SHARED FUTURES CONF.NEWCASTLE 5TH-7TH JULY
‘THE STUDY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, LANGUAGE AND CREATIVE WRITING IS AN IMPORTANT AND DYNAMIC ENTERPRISE. We will celebrate the discipline’s intellectual strength, diversity and creativity and explore its futures in the nations of the UK and across the world.’ Wednesday
English: Shared Futures conference programme 5th-7th July
English: Shared Futures Conference THE STUDY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, LANGUAGE AND CREATIVE WRITING IS AN IMPORTANT AND DYNAMIC ENTERPRISE. ‘We will celebrate the discipline’s intellectual strength, diversity and creativity and explore its futures in the nations of the UK
Translating Theatre: ‘Foreignisation’ on Stage’
Reflections from the AHRC Translating Cultures Project and 21st Nov Symposium (http://www.translatingtheatre.com/) by Jan Parker The playwright creates a game for actors. The translator creates the
Celebrating 50 yrs of Lucy Cavendish:50 Poems by ”remarkable and inspiring women poets”
Readers of 50 Poems by ”remarkable and inspiring women poets” http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/fiftypoems/list-of-poems/ Celebrating 50 years of Lucy Cavendish College: Reading Fifty Poems “The development of Lucy Cavendish College grew out of the vision and determination of three women who formed a
Reports, please! Knowledge as a Public Good Oslo, May 18-19 2015
Reports and responses very welcome: to the AHHE journal/blog – here and to AHHEresearch@gmail.com The Re:Enlightenment Exchange 5: Knowledge as a Public Good Oslo, May 18-19 2015 In our explorations of the Enlightenment heritage in the 21st century we have so
15 May 2015: ‘literary studies as writing’ IES pedagogic criticism workshop
Institute of English Studies The performance of reading: literary studies as writing How student writing shapes the discipline. The conventional distinction between creativity and criticism has masked the degree to which critical literary studies have always been in some sense
McGann: Truth and Method; or Humanities Scholarship as a Science of Exceptions
McGann on ‘Truth and Method; or Humanities Scholarship as a Science of Exceptions’ 14 May 2015, 17:00 – 18:30, Mill Lane Lecture Theatres, Cambridge Professor Jerome McGann (University of Virginia) will give a Cambrdge Centre for Research in Arts, Social Science