The acclaimed writer Michel Faber will read from his latest collection, Undying; a love story, at an event hosted by the School of English in … Read more
Category: Events
Abdulrazak Gurnah at the Whitstable Literary Festival
Sunday 14 May, Whitstable Castle 11am-12pm, £6 Booker shortlister Abdulrazak Gurnah talks to Jeremey Scott about his new novel Gravel Heart. Moving from revolutionary Zanzibar … Read more
Creative Writing Summer Reading Series – The Professionals
Gender, Sexuality and the Sensory
Gender, Sexuality and the Sensory A one-day symposium Friday 19th May 2017, 10:00-18.00 University of Kent, Canterbury Grimond Building, Lecture Theatre 3 Hosted by Feminist Theory journal and … Read more
The T. S. Eliot Memorial Lecture: Wednesday 15 March 2017
“What place is this, what land, what quarter of the globe?”: The Compass of Story in Dislocated Times Professor Marina Warner (Birkbeck College London) Wednesday 15 … Read more
Singing Across The Channel: Ballads of Politics and Protest in Britain and France
Singing Across The Channel: Ballads of Politics and Protest in Britain and France A one-day workshop exploring the musical side of political protest with live … Read more
Una McIlvenna presents on ballads of the Great Fire of London
A programme of walks, talks and tours, special sermons & debates are taking place at St Paul’s Cathedral in London to mark the 350th anniversary … Read more
Vybarr Cregan-Reid at Waterstones Canterbury (Wednesday 7 December)
Vybarr Cregan-Reid, Reader in English and Environmental Humanities in the School of English and author of the acclaimed book Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human, … Read more
Patricia Debney to launch poetry collection at Kent
Patricia Debney (Reader in Creative Writing in the School of English) will be launching her recently published collection of poetry, Baby, (Cinnamon Press, 2016) at … Read more
Shakespeare 400 open lecture : Tuesday 11 October
Shakespeare 400 Canterbury: Chapter and Verse A collaborative open lecture series, part of the University of Kent’s celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death … Read more