Kent Paris students have launched a festival and MA conference on the topic of Motion. The conference will run at Reid Hall on Monday 6 June and other festival events will take place in the course of the following week. They include an exhibition of student art, conversation with a Paris artist, book launch at Shakespeare & Co., launch of the new issue of the Paris MA magazine, Le Menteur, and a trek across Paris finishing with a celebration in  song and readings. Speakers and readers for the week include Vybarr Cregan-Reid, David Herd, Yelena Moscovich, Dragan Todovoric, Joanna Walsh and Lauren Elkin. The conference is designed to attract MA students working on their dissertations, whether from Paris institutions or from Kent’s other campuses. See the call for papers and for further details go to motioninparis.wordpress.com.