The Wapping Strike
In 1980 Fleet Street was more than an address, it was the proverbial centre of Britains newspaper industry. Every national paper and major news agency had its head office either on the street or close by. Within ten years, there was not a newspaper office left on Fleet Street. The decade had seen the biggest upheaval in the newspaper industry since ...
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Bishopsgate Institute
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The Sampler
Enjoy some of the most exhilarating poetry that Londons contemporary poets have to offer, in an afternoon hosted by Christopher Horton. Limited open mic slots are also available so join in by registering half an hour before the event starts. ...
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Museum of London Docklands
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Investigative Journalism
Investigative Journalism has been labelled the highest form of journalism. It is a genre of reporting which goes beyond the press releases, the spin and the public relations and has been at the forefront of social change with campaigns to free the innocent and uncover uncomfortable realities in our midst. From Londoner W.T. Stead, who decided to go ...
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Bishopsgate Institute
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London
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United Kingdom
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Juli Zeh in Conversation with Peter Gutteridge
In Dark Matter (in German Schilf), Juli Zeh crafts a philosophical thriller with intelligence, wit and grace. She explores guilt and innocence by contrasting the ideal and the material world and by bending reality to explore guilt and innocence.
...Sebastian and Oskar have been friends since they both studied physics at university, where both w ...
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Goethe-Institut London
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London
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Japan Society Book Club
The book for discussion at this meeting is Haruki Murakami’s ‘1Q84’. The book club itself is conducted in English but members can choose the language in which they read the book.
The book club is held regularly on the 2nd Thursday of the month. The first few books have been chosen, but we would like members to make further suggestions for books ...
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The Coach Makers Pub
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London
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The genius of Alice In Wonderland
A celebration of Lewis Carroll’s remarkable triumph of the imagination, on the eve of the premiere of Tim Burton’s long awaited film version. The original hand-written and illustrated manu_ of Alice’s Adventures under Ground is one of the best loved treasures of the British Library collection, a kaleidoscopic adventure first set down in 1864 and hu ...
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The British Library
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
A packed and richly diverse programme celebrating Omar Khayyam’s glorious Persian meditation on life, death, happiness and the pleasures of imbibing. Discover too the translator of the Rubaiyat, Edward Fitzgerald, who made the poem his own and created one of the masterpieces of English verse.
The evening, hosted by broadcaster Libby Purves, will ...
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The British Library
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London
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United Kingdom
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Speaking of Love
Four very different writers consider four very different aspects of love: love as enchantment, and love as madness; passion in youth, and compassion in age. They read their favourite passages on love both from their own work, and from the work of others, and, on Valentine’s eve, discuss Shakespeare’s notion that ‘The lunatic, the lover and the poet ...
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Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Build
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London
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Animating a Myth for our times
An event that combines a story-telling of the 1000-year-old eco-fable The Animals’ Lawsuit against Humanity with a panel discussion on the story’s historical and literary origins; current biodiversity in the midst of species extinction; the philosophical relationship between humans; and animals and the need for a myth for our times.
Zeina Frang ...
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Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
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London
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So Much for That: on illness, death and money
Lionel Shriver will be discussing and reading from her new novel So Much for That on the cusp of release in March. Described in HarperCollinss spring catalogue as about illness, death, and money, Shrivers latest explores four different scenarios with a medical aspect, in a kind of literary ER. The book examines the catastrophic personal fall-out of ...
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Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
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London
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The Arts of Illness
Consciousness of our own mortality is at the heart of the human experience, and has long fascinated writers and artists, inspiring quite an obsession with the body and its well-being. This panel will examine the relationship between creativity, illness and the imagination.
Dr Jane Darcy has recently completed a PhD on melancholy in biographical ...
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Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
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London
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United Kingdom
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Reading London
How do we attempt to understand the sprawling modern Babylon that is London, with its layers of social, political and cultural history? Can art, architecture and literature help us to read this complex city?
Rosemary Ashton is Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at UCL, and the lead investigator of a 3-year Leverhulme funded rese ...
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Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Build
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London
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United Kingdom
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Literature and the Sciences
Three poets discuss the interrelationship between art and literature and the social sciences. What are the links between these seemingly polarised disciplines? Does art have any concrete influence on the social and political sciences?
Michael Blackburn is a poet and publisher. Poetry collections include The Prophecy of Christos and The Ascendin ...
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Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
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London
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United Kingdom
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A QandA Session with Patrick Mercer
Patrick Mercer was a Regular Army officer who saw service in many crisis ridden areas including Northern Ireland, Uganda, Belize and the Balkans. In an attempt to broaden his portfolio of international disasters, he then spent some time as the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme’s Defence Correspondent, broadcasting from Kosovo, East Timor and Eritrea. Hav ...
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Alumni Theatre, New Academic Building
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London
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United Kingdom
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Jekyll and Hyde: Law, Science, Psychology
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde develops an extraordinarily rich intersection between literary fiction, legal norms and the scientific imagination. This panel discussion brings together legal academics, psychoanalytical theorists and specialists in nineteenth-century literature in a conversation focused on the historical and cultural signi ...
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Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Build
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London
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Researching and Writing a Political Novel
Christies forthcoming novel is set against the backdrop of the Nigerian oil industry. This session will focus on some of the challenges encountered when creating a fictional narrative from a contemporary political issue. She will also read from her novel and offer advice on finding a literary agent.
Christie Watson won the Malcolm Bradbury Burs ...
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Alumni Theatre, New Academic Building
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London
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United Kingdom
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How to bring the battle to the book
Update, Monday 18 January: Stepehn Grey has replaced Janine Di Giovanni on this panel.
A discussion of war journalism in its historical context. How the great correspondents of the past managed to tell the world about conflicts around the globe. And how in the digital age, governments and the military seek to prevent free reporting of war. Can ...
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Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
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London
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United Kingdom
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How to write a novel
Does the task of writing a novel both excite and daunt you? Using the political novel as an example, this workshop will examine how to progress from initial ideas to a successful draft. Participants should emerge with an understanding of the task that lies ahead and a greater sense of what is required in terms of structure, characterisation and plo ...
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Alumni Theatre, New Academic Building
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Fiction of Development
Do we learn more about global poverty issues and the worlds of international development agencies from works of popular fiction such as Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance or Helen Fielding’s Cause Celeb than we do from official reports and academic research? A recently-published paper written by David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers and Michael Woolcock sugges ...
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Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Build
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London
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United Kingdom
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Literature as a resource for other disciplines
The session examines how the reading of literature can expand the analytical imagination, provide alternative metaphors and supply vital empirical evidence. Three academics from very different disciplines discuss ways in which literature can be invaluable to the broader research community:
Richard Bronk is Visiting Fellow at the European Instit ...
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Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
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London
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