{"id":884,"date":"2019-10-01T13:40:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T13:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/?p=884"},"modified":"2021-04-16T08:57:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T08:57:05","slug":"psac-director-to-present-at-annual-wimbledon-bookfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/2019\/10\/01\/psac-director-to-present-at-annual-wimbledon-bookfest\/","title":{"rendered":"PSAC director to present at annual Wimbledon BookFest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The academic director of the Paris School of Arts and Culture Professor Ben Hutchinson will present his new publication,<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/comparative-literature-a-very-short-introduction-9780198807278?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\">Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction<\/a><\/em> (Oxford University Press) at the annual Wimebledon BookFest on Saturday, 5 October 2019. Professor Hutchinson will take part in the Intellectual Speed Dating event, and present with three other authors who have also published in Oxford University Press&#8217; Very Short Introduction series.<\/p>\n<p>High-level but digestible overviews written by experts in their field, the Very Short Introduction series is a wonderful way to discover a new subject.<\/p>\n<p>Conceived as a form of &#8220;intellectual speed dating&#8221;, at the BookFest the audience will be split into small groups and will move around the event space, enjoying ten minutes with each of four authors for a pithy introduction to the topics covered.<\/p>\n<p>Further information including ticketing can be found by visiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledonbookfest.org\/Events\/2019Events\/IntellectualSpeedDating.aspx\">Wimbledon BookFest website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The academic director of the Paris School of Arts and Culture Professor Ben Hutchinson will present his new publication, Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press) at the annual Wimebledon BookFest on Saturday, 5 October 2019. Professor Hutchinson will take part in the Intellectual Speed Dating event, and present with three other authors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40372,"featured_media":885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}