25th – 27th SEPTEMBER 2015 World Writer’s Festival will take place at our Paris Centre

WORLD WRITERS’ FESTIVAL

SEPTEMBER 25 – 27, 2015

Presented by Columbia University and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

For the full program: www.festivaldesecrivainsdumonde.fr

Whether you’re a lover of poetry, the short story, the literary novel, non-fiction, or theater, there is something for everyone at the third annual World Writers’ Festival! The writers presenting at the Festival this year come from the four corners of the world: fifteen different countries to be exact. In multiple ways, they will be bearing witness to the global human condition today.

Participating writers include: Suleyman Al Bassam, Christine Angot, Carmen Boullosa, A.S. Byatt, Javier Cercas, Michel Faber, Aleksandar Hemon, Sayed Kashua, Etgar Keret, Yiyun Li, Les Murray, Florence Noiville, Edna O’Brien, Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, Gary Shteyngart, Binyavanga Wainaina, and Samar Yazbek.

Go to the University of Kent’s Paris Centre

University of Kent’s 2015 Teaching Awards – First Prize awarded to Professor Ray Laurence

The winners of the University Teaching Prizes 2015 have now been announced. 

Faculty of Humanities Teaching Prize
 The first prize was awarded to Professor Ray Laurence (Classical and Archaeological Studies [4]) for his innovative curriculum development work at the University’s Rome centre, involving the development of local and international partnerships, use of new media, and site-specific forms of assessment.