The UCD Humanities Institute is delighted to announce a public guest lecture by renowned writer and literary critic
Marina Warner: Truth In Stories
Marina Warner (DBE, FBA; FRSL) is Professor of English and Creative Writing, Birkbeck College, University of London and Professorial Research Fellow, SOAS, 2014-2017. Her acclaimed publications include Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction, (January 2018), Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art and Artists (forthcoming 2018), Planting Signs: The Art of Jumana Abboud (Autumn 2017), Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media (2006), and Stranger Magic: Charmed States and The Arabian Nights (2011). The Lost Father (l988), was short listed for the Booker prize, and in 2000, The Leto Bundle (2000) was long-listed. The Shadow Image(ed. Rut Blees), with essay and photographs from a trip to China in 1975 by Marina Warner, is due to be published in 2017.
Marina Warner's lecture is part of the UCD Humanities Institute public lecture series Truth to be Told: Understanding Truth in the Age of Post-Truth Politics in response to the emergence of what is called a ‘post-factual’ world in which trustworthy models of discursive truth have been derided as old-fashioned, elitist and authoritarian.
When: 7 December 2017, 6pm
Where: UCD Humanities Institute, Dublin
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/truth-in-stories-truth-to-be-told-lecture-2-tickets-39609655546?utm_term=eventurl_text
For more in formation on forthcoming lectures see: http://www.ucd.ie/humanities/
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