Under the Rainbow: Voices from Lockdown |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
James Attlee, Marina Warner, Pablo Mukherjee, Wes Williams |
18 June, 2021 |
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Mythopoeia: myth-creation and Middle-earth |
A celebration of Tolkien and his creations, with special guests Dame Marina Warner, Prof Verlyn Flieger and Dr Dimitra Fimi. |
Marina Warner, Verlyn Flieger, Dimitra Fimi |
25 January, 2019 |
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M. NourbeSe Philip on the haunting of history |
M. NourbeSe Philip reads from She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988) and Zong! (2008) as she describes her poetic development. |
M NourbeSe Philip, Marina Warner, Matthew Reynolds, Elleke Boehmer |
25 August, 2017 |
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Thinking with Literature |
A Book at Lunchtime discussion with Terence Cave about literature's links to cognitive science. |
Terence Cave, Marina Warner, Ilona Roth, Deirdre Wilson, Emily Trosianko |
28 April, 2016 |
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Comparative Encounters between Artaud, Michaux and the Zhuangzi |
Part of "Book at Lunchtime", a fortnightly series of bite size book discussions, with commentators from a range of disciplines. Xiaofan Amy Li discusses her new book "Comparative Encounters Between Artaud, Michaux and the Zhuangzi." |
Xiofan Amy Li, Elleke Boehmer, Wang Xing, Matthew Reynolds, Marina Warner |
20 November, 2015 |
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Remembering the Corpus [Part 3] |
LAL’s importance to comparative literature and ways of reading. Marina Warner leads discussion with Dominique Jullien, Ros Ballaster, Wen-chin Ouyang and Matthew Reynolds. |
Marina Warner, Dominique Jullien, Ros Ballaster, Wen-Chin Ouyang, Matthew Reynolds |
29 May, 2015 |
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Intercultural Tales |
Hanan al-Shaykh gives a talk on 'Intercultural Literary Practices', with responses by Professor Marina Warner and Claire Gallien, chaired by Prof. Mohamed-Salah Omri (Oriental Studies). Part of the Intercultural Literary Practices OCCT Strand. |
Hanan al-Shaykh, Marina Warner, Claire Gallien, Mohamed-Salah Omri |
17 February, 2015 |
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Thinking with Stories: Listening in to Women’s Voices |
The fourth in our lecture series for Trinity Term 2014, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Professor Marina Warner, CBE -- Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and writer of fiction, criticism and cultural history. |
Marina Warner |
3 September, 2014 |
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Oriental Tales and Their Influence |
Prof. Warner and Prof. Ballaster begin their conversation with Antoine Galland's translation into French from Arabic of the 'Alf Layla wa-Layla' as the first two volumes of 'Les Mille et Une Nuit' in the first decade of eighteenth century. |
Ros Ballaster, Marina Warner |
26 March, 2013 |
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War and Civilization Series Lecture 3: War and Pity |
Marina Warner is a writer of fiction, criticism and history; her works include novels and short stories as well as studies of myths, symbols, and fairytales. She is currently Professor at Essex University. |
Marina Warner |
24 May, 2010 |
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