Programme Details
As well as the events below, there will be a series of free creative writing workshops looking at how to write the political novel taking place during Saturday morning, and an afternoon of events for children with pirates, picnics and animals!
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LSE Literary Festival discussion, supported by the Polish Cultural Institute
Crossing Borders: Migration in Women’s Writing in Poland
Time: 10.30am-12pm
Speakers: Ursula Chowaniec, Izabela Filipiak, Grazyna Plebanek
PODCAST NOW ONLINE
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LSE Literary Festival discussion
Reality Hunger
Time: 11am-12.30pm
Speakers: Geoff Dyer, Robert Hudson, David Shields
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LSE Literary Festival discussion
The Four Walls of My Freedom
Time: 12.30-2pm
Speaker: Donna Thomson
Respondent: Geraldine Bedell
Chair: Professor Stuart Corbridge
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Department of Geography & the Environment and Granta Magazine Literary Festival discussion
Placing Mobilities
Time: 1-2.30pm
Speakers: Brian Chikwava, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Olumide Popoola
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LSE Literary Festival lecture
Through the Soviet Looking-Glass
Time: 2.30-4pm
Speaker: Francis Spufford
Chair: Professor Janet Hartley
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Prospect Magazine Literary Festival panel
New technologies and the reinvention of the author
Time: 3-4.30pm
Speakers: Sam Leith, Lionel Shriver, Nigel Warburton
Chair: Tom Chatfield
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LSE Literary Festival discussion
Representations of Conflict in Contemporary Literature
Time: 4.30-6pm
Speakers: Tahmima Anam, Mirza Waheed
Chair: Professor Sumantra Bose
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Forum for European Philosophy Literary Festival lecture
The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death
Time: 5-6.30pm
Speaker: Professor John Gray
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Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method Literary Festival panel
Literature and Islamophobia: Three Muslima Authors Speak Out
Time: 6.30-8pm
Speakers: Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Senay Özdemir, Naema Tahir
PODCAST NOW ONLINE
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Royal Society of Literature Literary Festival event
Crossing Borders- Andrew Motion in conversation with Rebecca Jones
Time: 7-8.30pm
EDITIED PODCAST AVAILABLE ON RSL WEBSITE
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