by aseifert | Oct 6, 2014 | Events
Dickens Day, now in its 28th year, is looking at how conviviality features in Dickens’s life and work. Dickens’s works are famously convivial, depicting sociability in myriad forms: from the famously boozy Pickwick Papers, through the Crachits’ sentimental festive...
by aseifert | Sep 29, 2014 | Events
National Poetry Day is the nation’s biggest celebration of poetry. Everyone seems to be joining in, releasing poetry into the streets, squares, supermarkets, parks, train stations, bus-stops and post-boxes. We know of poetry police, poetry funeral directors, poetry...
by admin | May 1, 2014 | Events
Tomorrow (Friday 2 May 2014) Senate House will host an exciting 2-day interdisciplinary conference on the interrelation between the imagination of the future, memory and the future of memory. In this guest post Emanuela Patti (IMLR) talks about the forthcoming...
by admin | Oct 9, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival
Our senses make the world that we experience come alive. Artists realised this long ago, so have those who wish to convey a message whether it be personal, political, or religious. At this year’s Bloomsbury Festival there are various events that attempt to challenge...
by admin | Oct 3, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival
“they discuss Bloomsbury’s history as a meeting place and point of intersection for poets, radicals, and visionaries of all kinds”...