- IAS Public Lectures
IAS Public Lecture Series
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The Institute of Advanced Study is inaugurating a series of public events and lectures. Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Laureate, 'In Conversation' at WarwickWarwick Arts Centre Theatre, 6pm, Thursday 7 June 2012The IAS is delighted to welcome one of the world’s greatest writers, Mario Vargas Llosa, and his wife Patricia, to Warwick University on 7 June 2012. Mario Vargas Llosa has been a regular visitor to Warwick since the late seventies and was awarded an honorary degree in 2004. This visit will be the first time that he has appeared in public in the UK since the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in December 2010. The visit is part of the University of Warwick Distinguished Lecture Series. Mario Vargas Llosa will be ‘In Conversation’ at the Art Centre Theatre at 6pm on 7 June (the tickets are free and can be obtained through the Art Centre box office). He will be speaking about his latest novel, The Dream of the Celt, published in English by Faber and Faber to coincide with his visit. His novel is a fictional account of key moments in the life of Roger Casement, the diplomat and human rights activist, turned Irish nationalist, executed by the British government of treason in 1916. He will be joined on stage by the Peruvian novelist and critic, Alonso Cueto, the critic Efraín Kristal (UCLA) and the Irish historian María Luddy (Warwick). This ‘In Conversation’ will also cover broader aspects of the work of Vargas Llosa as highlighted in the recently published Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa (edited by Efraín Kristal and John King). The IAS has also co-organized a further ‘In Conversation’ with Vargas Llosa, scheduled for 6 June. This event, that will take place at the Royal Society in London, is co sponsored by Warwick, the British Academy, the publishers Faber and Faber, and the Irish Embassy. It will mark the official launch of the novel The Dream of the Celt. Tickets are free from the Arts Centre but must be booked in advance. Inside the Irish Giant: History, Science and ArtThis public outreach event and the accompanying public/academic events centre on a famous historical story that took place in Georgian London: the encounter between the Irish giant Charles Byrne (1761-1783) and the famous anatomist and surgeon John Hunter (1728-1793). WHEN: FRIDAY 27 AND SATURDAY 28 MAY 2011WHERE: CAPITAL CENTRE, MILLBURN HOUSEFree event: Tickets available via Warwick Arts Centre Box Office Public Lecture: 10 February 2011Jeremy Seabrook, Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA)Refugee Academics - Britain as a place of SanctuaryJeremy will be looking at the history of refugee academics in the UK, whilst assessing the role of UK universities in welcoming refugee academics, including questions of academic freedom. The trials, tribulations and politics of welcoming refugee academics will be highlighted with reference to the many testimonies in CARA’s 75th anniversary publication ‘The Refugee and the Fortress.’ Jeremy Seabrook is author of The Refuge and the Fortress (Palgrave 2008), an analysis of British attitudes towards people fleeing racial, religious and political persecution. He is a prolific author and journalist specialising in social, environmental and development issues. In this seminar he looks at the record of British policy and practice – and at the activities of CARA, which has supported refugee academics for over 78 years.
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