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Noble Lecture 2024 with French writer Marie NDiaye
In conversation with Profs Nicholas Harrison (KCL) and Clare Finburgh Delijani (Goldsmiths)
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4/10/2024
Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2009 - Episode 8: The Power of Lagerlöf
Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2009 - Episode 8: The Power of Lagerlöf Celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Selma Lagerlöf – the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature – 10 December. Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her novels inspired epoch-making early films, when she turned 80 she was one of the most widely translated Swedish authors ever, and her work continues to attract new readers today. This lecture gives a flavour of the range of her writing, looks at the explanations for her success and tests the findings of more text-focused scholarship. Dr Helena Forsås-Scott Department of Scandinavian Studies Vintage Podcasts - Lunch Hour Lectures
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7/25/2023
Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2009 - Episode 1: The making of Johnson’s dictionary
Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2009 - Episode 1: The making of Johnson’s dictionary Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language taught the British how to spell, established Shakespeare as their greatest writer and provided the first and longest lasting map of the English language in all its subtlety and variety. This lecture will tell the extraordinary story of how the first dictionary was made and take you inside what has become the least well known great book in our literature. Vintage Podcasts - Lunch Hour Lectures
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7/25/2023
Great Expectations and Furnace Creek
This event took place 24 February 2022, 12:30 pm–2:00 pm. With Joseph Boone (USC) and John Mullan (UCL). Why does Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations continue to inspire readers and authors today? In this event, John Mullan, Professor of English at UCL, is in conversation with Joseph Boone, the author of a new novel, Furnace Creek, which is inspired by Dicken’s masterpiece. Furnace Creek teases us with the question of what Pip might have been like had he grown up in the American South of the 1960s and 1970s and faced the explosive social issues—racial injustice, a war abroad, women’s and gay rights, class struggle—that galvanized the world in those decades. Advance copies of the novel have garnered high praise from readers. This promises to be a riveting discussion between the novelist and one of our most distinguished literary critics.
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3/10/2022
VIRTUAL: 'Leaving' by Anar
09 December 2021, 5:00 pm–6:00 pm Join Sri Lankan poet Anar, and translator-poets Hari Rajaledchumy and Fran Lock for readings in the original Tamil, the English translation of the poems, and discussions about the themes of Anar’s work, Tamil literature and the process of translating her poetry. Event chaired by Edward Doegar.
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12/17/2021
An Inspector Calls - GCSE English Literature Text - An STS View
GCSE English Literature text An Inspector Calls, by J. B. Priestley, is discussed in this short presentation by historian of science, Professor Charlotte Sleigh. Prof Sleigh investigates how Priestley’s play was influenced by the strange experiences of a man who believed he could time travel in his dreams. She gives students a way to meet the AQA GCSE assessment objective: understand the relationship between the text and the context in which it was written.
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3/8/2021
Self and History
By Philippe Sands in conversation with Tamar Garb. Philippe Sands uncovered the processes, motivations and challenges of thinking simultaneously of ‘self’ and ‘history’, and of finding a voice in which to narrate a personal relationship to the past while preserving a scholarly perspective on the evidence it presents. Philippe Sands is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals in the Laws Faculty, UCL. He was in conversation with Tamar Garb, Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL. For more information please visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/ias-events/self_and_history_a_conversation_philippe_sands
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2/7/2018