I am an experienced speaker at both public and academic events. I have given talks at the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, UEA, and UCL, among other universities. I have also spoken at public events, including the Cambridge Festival, and Kettle’s Yard.
My upcoming events are able to be found below. Selected recent events are also viewable.
T.S. Eliot’s anti-Polishness: British literary responses to Central European geopolitics in the interwar era Hidden within the nascent and rough-hewn pages of the drafted version of T.S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece, The Waste Land, is a snippet of the Slavic, ultimately scratched out before the poem reached publication: ‘who are those hooded hordes swarming / over Polish plains’. […]
Take a tour of the legendary Mieczysław Fogg’s life with cultural journalist Juliette Bretan and songs from singer-songwriter Katy Carr Poland’s musical hero Mieczysław Fogg 1930s cabaret to wartime resistance Join us for a unique event celebrating Mieczysław Fogg, Poland’s legendary crooner on the 125th anniversary of his birth. Dive into the vibe of 1930s […]
Though so far under-explored, British authors in the interwar period were frequently fascinated by the reconfiguration of East-central Europe following the war. Inspired by both British intellectual and political support for nationalism, as well as newfound disillusionment in the 1920s with ideas of democracy and nation-states, authors ranging from T.S. Eliot to Evelyn Waugh both […]