Phenomenology has inspired countless pieces of art, literature and music, and has influenced disciplines as diverse as theology, cognitive science, anthropology, ecology, architecture and nursing. Phenomenology can … Read more

This Autumn term Dr Ben Hickman gave a research seminar on ‘Poetry’s Undone Politics: Vulnerability after the Avant-Garde’. Following Ben’s presentation, Professor Wendy Parkins, who had … Read more

At the end of October Professor Caroline Rooney attended a workshop on ‘Preserving Egypt’s Cultural Heritage: Mitigating Threats for a Sustainable Future’. The gathering was enabled … Read more

On 21st October Dr Will Norman gave a research seminar on the ‘strange career of Saul Steinberg, an emigre artist best known for his New Yorker covers … Read more

Daný van Dam and Lara Atkin report from a conference celebrating the fascinating cast of opera singers, mountaineers, cross-dressers, actors and tourists of both genders … Read more

The 35th Annual Dickens Universe, and the “Long, Wide Nineteenth Century” conference, both sponsored by the Dickens Project, were held consecutively 31 August- 08 August … Read more

After a successful collaboration last March between Kent Union and the Centre for Gender Sexuality and Writing, it was decided that a reprise was long … Read more

University of Kent, 13-14 June 2015 Now that over half a century has passed since Lionel Abel coined the term ‘metatheatre’ with particular reference to … Read more

Liminal Time and Space in Medieval and Early Modern Performance Conference Report 5th-7th September 2014, University of Kent Human experience of time and space has … Read more

Who would not enjoy a week on a lovely Californian campus, drinking tea, meeting eminent academics and fellow-students while discussing a book? As the lucky … Read more