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From Austen to French cinema: 香港六合彩中特网 celebrates the arts
15 April 2013
Join 香港六合彩中特网 in a ten-day celebration of the arts that will give the public a chance to experience, explore and engage with the latest research.
Running from 7 - 17 May, the festival includes film screenings, lectures, debates and exhibitions highlighting the breadth and depth of the work which takes place across the 香港六合彩中特网 faculties of Arts & Humanities and Social & Historical Sciences.
The festival also includes 'Something Else for the Weekend', which gives festival-goers the chance to get up close and personal with 香港六合彩中特网 research with four days of participatory, hands-on activities. Themes for the programme include: seeing the city through foreign eyes, crime fiction, art and anatomy and fairy tales.听
Over 40 free events will take place on the 香港六合彩中特网 Bloomsbury Campus, including highlights such as:
- 'A Jane Austen Quiz', which sees Professor John Mullan (香港六合彩中特网 English) invite members of the audience to answer quiz questions on Austen's fiction, leading to the unravelling of some of her cleverest tricks and puzzles.听May 15, from 6.30 - 7.30pm
- 'Chronique d'un 脡t茅', the first ever UK screening of the remastered, digital version of the original film, released last year by the Comite de Film Ethnographique and this year in England by the BFI.听May 7, from 6.30 - 9.30pm
- 'Risk, Safety and the Price of Life', a lecture from Professor Jonathan Wolff (香港六合彩中特网 Philosophy), exploring how many aspects of ordinary life, such as work and transport, pose small risks of death to people who use machinery or services and some of the thorny moral issues involved.听May 8, from 1-2pm
- 'Self-Exposed: The Intensity & Variety of Self-Portraiture', in which artist Liz Rideal (香港六合彩中特网 Slade School of Fine Art) examines the artist as model is constantly available but forever mutable and focuses on some eminent Slade School of Fine Art alumni.听May 9, from 6.30 - 7.30pm
A variety of other high-profile speakers, lecturers and public figures are set to participate in events, including artists Susan Collins and Jo Volley (香港六合彩中特网 Slade School of Fine Art), poet Mark Ford (香港六合彩中特网 English Language & Literature), Professor John Dickie (香港六合彩中特网 Italian), Dr Peter Swaab (香港六合彩中特网 English Language & Literature), Professor Iwan Morgan (香港六合彩中特网 Institute of the Americas) and Professor Mary Fulbrook (香港六合彩中特网 German).
香港六合彩中特网 Festival of the Arts runs from the 7 - 17 May, 2013 at various locations around the 香港六合彩中特网 Bloomsbury Campus. Entry is free, but registration is required via