MW at BBC Radio 4 with Adjoa Andoh, Anthony Calf and Eloise Secker recording From Fact to Fiction, June 2010
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2012
March 19th, 2012, ‘The Library in Fiction’, a King James Library Lecture at University of St Andrews, Fife - as part of ‘The Meaning of the Library’ series celebrating 400th anniversary of the re-founding of the King James Library, Fife.
2011
2010
‘The Transatlantic Cable’ an essay for Parkett, Volume No.87 published in October 2010, pages 22-25 and translated into German on pages 26-31.
‘Algebra, Vertigo, and Order: The Signs in the Stone’, essay on Sigmar Polke’s new windows for Grossmunster, Zurich. Forthcoming, Parkettverlag, 2010.
July 5th-8th, British Comparative Literature Association ‘Archive’ Conference.
July 17th at 3pm, ‘The Return of the Fairytale - In She-Wolf’s Clothing’ - Marina Warner explores Fairytales’ Marina Warner will explore the surprising character of fairytale - and its protagonists - after Angela Carter at The Frome Festival, Somerset.
June 24th, Royal Institute of British Architects Council Dinner talk at RIBA, London
June 19th at 7.00pm BBC Radio 4 From Fact to Fiction: short story ‘Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant’ - They Make a Desert and Call It Peace´ - written by MW for BBC Radio 4’s programme ‘From Fact to Fiction’ will be broadcast on Saturday June 19 at 7.00pm and again Sunday June 20 at 5.40 pm.
June 16th-18th, ‘Empire and Me: Personal Explorations of Imperialism in Reality and Imagination’ A conference at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor.
June 8th at 6pm, Room 102 - University of London, Senate House. Marina Warner President - Elect of the British Comparative Literature Association, will be introducing the 20th volume in the /Legenda/ series: ‘Yeats and Pessoa: Parallel Poetic Styles’ by Patrícia Silva McNeill. See here.
June 11th-12th - ‘Staging the East: Oriental Masking in the British Theatre 1660-1830’, Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, British Academy sponsored conference, convened by MW and Elizabeth Kuti.
May 2010, ‘A Source of Inspiration… As Seen by Marina Warner’ essay for The Fitzwilliam Museum, ongoing online exhibition.
May 2010, ‘Chronicle of a Life Repiared’ An essay for the exhibition catalogue ‘Bobby Baker Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Me’ published by Profile Books, May 2010. Pages 2-17.
May 2010, ‘La Cella di Brigit’ edited by Daniela Corona, introduction and translation by Valentina Castagna, (Quattrosoli, Palermo, 2010). Italian version of the short story ‘Birgitta’s Cell’ first broadcast on 14th January 2007 on BBC Radio 4.
27 May 2010, ‘A View of a View’ and essay review on ‘Melchior Lorck’ edited by Erik Fischer, Ernst Jonas Bencard and Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen published in London Review of Books Vol. 32 No. 10 27 May 2010 Pp 15-17.
May 20th ‘Looking East: The Orientalism of Melchior Lorck’, Birkbeck Graduate Seminar, MW lecture at Birkbeck College, 7.30pm.
May 17th at 6:30pm, ‘Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of The Arabian Nights’, Edward Said Lecture at The British Museum. Marina Warner, University of Essex, gives the first annual Edward W Said London lecture, with opening remarks by Stuart Hall and an introduction by Jacqueline Rose. In l999, Edward Said founded, with Daniel Barenboim, The West-East Divan Orchestra, bringing young musicians from the Arab world and Israel to play together. The orchestra is named after a cycle of poems by the German Romantic poet Goethe, who was inspired to a late burst of remarkable creativity by his encounter with eastern literature, first with the drinking songs and love lyrics of the medieval Persian poet Hafiz, and soon afterwards with the Arabian Nights in the first full German translation. In Mozart’s opera, Cosi Fan Tutte, the subject of an essay in Edward Said’s last book, /On Late Style/, the lovers masquerade as orientals (‘Albanians’) to test their fiancées. For Mozart and Goethe, truth-telling and Arabian fantasy were in some way intertwined. How this could be, the forms the device took, and the effects it had, will be explored by Marina Warner in the light of Edward Said’s evolving ideas on ‘the Orient-as-cause’, entangled cultures, contrapuntal reading, and belatedness.
May 13th at 5pm, ‘War & Pity’ Wolfson Lecture Series, Wolfson College, Oxford
The matter of Troy offers a lens to look at war in our time: The Trojan Women and Hecuba have been re-visioned in different translations and productions with a strong contemporary emphasis on Euripides’ uses of pity and terror, the principles of Aristoteleian catharsis. Marina Warner will explore the changing character of the cathartic principle in the post-photographic era of global technologies. Do such scenes and images still inspire a purifying pity?
May 2010 “Siren Voices’ an extract from ‘From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairytales and their Tellers’ in programme for Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák (1901) at Opera North, Leeds. Pp 6-9.
May 2010, ‘Imaginig the Orient’ an essay for the John Johnson Collection, An Archive of Printed Ephemera’ online section ‘A Writer Responds’.
‘From the Archives of the Marciana: Ms Miniscule 1588:15.08’ in the artists book ‘Helen Douglas: Venetian Brocade’ to be published by We Productions, 2010
1st May 2010, ‘An Afternoon with Derek Walcott’ - Professor of Poetry, University of Essex, Lakeside Theatre, public reading at 3pm.
Derek Walcott: In conversation with Professor Marina Warner and Maria Cristina Fumagalli of the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, discussing his life and work. Including readings from his works.
‘The Rowan Tree Ark: Alistair Noble’s ‘Mapping Arcadia: Isle Martin and the Topography of Place’ forthcoming essay, 2010.
April 12th, In conversation with Philip Pullman for publication of his new book, ‘The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ’, Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre.
April 8th, ‘Alberto Manguel: Reading the Universe’ chaired by Marina Warner at The Royal Society of Literature, listen to the event here.
March 30th ‘Dark Arts: Magic and Strangers after The Arabian Nights’, Annual George Steiner Lecture in Comparative Literature - School of Languages Linguistics and Film Annual Lecture at Queen Mary University, London, 6:30pm.
March 27th, ‘Rapunzel’s Mothers: Love & Fear in the Fairytale’, lecture at The IAFP’s 19th International Conference: “Tales of Transgression - Narratives in Forensic Psychotherapy” at Keble College, Oxford.
MW contributed programme notes for the Rough Magic Theatre Company production, ‘Sodome, My Love’, March 2010.
March 2nd ‘The Bookshop in Cairo’: A Talk to the Friends of The British Library at the AGM.
February, ‘Fathers, Daughters and Folklore’, programme note for King Lear, RSC Stratford-on-Avon, Spring 2010.
February 14th, Channel 4 ‘The Bible: A History’ interviewed for Episode 4 ‘The Daughters of Eve’. See also ‘Film, Television & Radio’.
February 13th, LSE Literary Festival - ‘Animating a Myth for our times: The Lawsuit of the Animals against Humanity’. An event that combines a story-telling of the 1000-year-old eco-fable The Animals’ Lawsuit against Humanity with a panel discussion on the story’s historical and literary origins; current biodiversity in the midst of species extinction; the philosophical relationship between humans; and animals and the need for a myth for our times. Listen to the podcast Here
Saturday 9 January 2010 ‘Do the tales of the Arabian Nights have resonance for audiences today?’ An essay review on the RSC’s production of Arabian Nights for The Guardian Review Section, P. 18. Stranger Magic: Charmed States in the Wake of the Arabian Nights - work in progress
2009
November 16th, 2009 MW gave a reading from her new novel ‘Inventory of a Life Mislaid’ at Shakespeare and Company Bookshop, Paris.
‘Baba Yaga and Other Hags’: review of Dubravka Ugresic’s latest novel published in London Review of Books on 27 August 2009.
‘Rat and Bear: The Animal Fables of Fischli / Weiss’ in ‘Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Are Animals People?’ Exhibition catalogue for Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid, in July 2009.
