The talk will show how advanced digitisation techniques allowed the virtual unfolding of the fragment, whose handling is particularly delicate, and increased the readability of the text.

It survived as the binding of a 16th century archival register of property at the manor of Huntingfield in Suffolk. The fragment was not removed from the document but preserved in situ as an original example of modern English archival binding in a project funded by @camdighum.bsky.social.

5.
22 March, 10am
The Body is a Page. An Encounter with Italian Poet Elisa Biagini
Poetry reading and craft talk
Co-curated by Bhanu Kapil (English) and Erica Bellia (MMLL Italian)
Venue: Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English
@italianmmll.bsky.social @mmll-cambridge.bsky.social

This ephemeral 48-hour installation by Sébastien Hoëltzener and Nina Rendulić, co-ordinated by Prof Hugo Azérad, will appear and then disappear, without leaving a trace, where ordinary utterances commenting on the location itself and its various users dialogue with the architectural landscape.

The presentation will include an all-age presentation of the bilingual edition of Riddles and Spells, by Richard Berengarten, a poet who lives in Cambridge. The text is accessible to the youngest readers, with delicious shifts of meaning and mischievous verbal mixes.

Geneviève Guétemme will take a set of recent texts from French and English writers who inject in their writing – from the very start – a mix of languages, voices and pictures, continuously collaborating with film makers, musicians, actors and dancers.