Times of Love and Hate by Marina Warner
A lecture to launch new programmes in SSHP, including the MA War and Humanitarianism.
On 1 June Birkbeck will host a lecture by Professor Marina Warner, launching a suite of new programmes that will commence in 2017/18.
At a postgraduate level, the new programmes include the MA Public Histories and the MSc War and Humanitarianism, which is co-taught by the Department of Politics. There are also a number of new undergraduate programmes: BA Human Geography, BA Archaeology & Geography, and BA Intercultural Communication & Language.
Generated in the crossing of boundaries and contesting of borders, contemporary social and political conflict across the world is marked by questions of identity and belonging, by the use and misuse of history, and articulated in polarizing language within an increasingly prohibitive public sphere. Yet at the same time, new humanitarian movements and creative interventions are also emerging, crafting spaces of dissent, hope, and even moments of love.
Reflecting on her work with refugees in Sicily as part of the Stories in Transit project, in her lecture Marina will argue for the need to create cultural spaces that enable imaginative, alternative stories to be told, for the power of thinking through material practices, and the urgency of supporting different ways that community and self can be made and remade.
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