New College launches the 'Salon'

Looking for a space where you can share ideas, enjoy reading literature, explore literary theory with others?
 

We have created it: The New College Salon.

The New College Salon brings together fellows and students from across the college with an interest in literature, to make a convivial space for reading and thinking together. At a time when it is getting harder to make time for shared reflection and contemplation, the Salon offers a period of slow time, in which we collectively immerse ourselves in readings of poetry, fiction and philosophy. Every term we gather together a range of short texts that cluster around the issues that are most pressing for us today – climate change, the impact on our lives of new technologies, the dwindling of the democratic public sphere. We meet for evening discussion over wine, to establish what Edith Wharton calls a republic of the spirit.

The Salon menu for Hilary and Trinity Terms 2026 can be found here 

All are welcome.

View the Hilary term event details: 

• Embodiment - 16th February
• Resonance - 23rd February
• Animal languages - 9th March