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The Compass of Story: The Oriental Tale and Western Imagination, a British Academy workshop with international speakers, convened by MW, March 28-29 2008, British Academy, London
April 3, 2008 : Opening address of Alice in Wonderland day, Horace Mann School, New York.
Marina Warner was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, 2005.
On June 21st 2006 the University of Oxford conferred on Marina Warner a Degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa
On July 12 2006, the University of Leicester conferred an Honorary Doctor of Letters on Marina Warner.
Marina Warner was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, 2005.
Laurence Coupe’s book on Marina Warner in the British Council series Writers and Their Work has appeared (more details here)
MW gave the opening talk at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery on Sept 2-3 2006 : 'Nests of Myrrh and a Paper Bag: The Egg at Home' see here for more details.
MW gave a lecture ‘Angels and Engines’, about ‘The Haywain’ by Hieronymus Bosch, at the Prado, Madrid, on 14 February, and in a different form, gave it at Harvard University’s Medieval Studies faculty in November 2006.
On March 28 Marina Warner took part and gave a talk in the Workshop day on ‘Apocalyptic Politics: Archaic Myths and Modern Media’, organised by the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex, held at Senate House, University of London March 28-29 2006.
A short story, After the Fox has appeared in Don't Know a Good Thing: the Asham Award Collection (Bloomsbury), which was launched with Helen Simpson and Kate Pullinger at the Purcell Room, London April 20 2006.
On April 21 Marina Warner gave the Shakespeare Birthday Lecture at Stratford-on-Avon, at 4.00 pm: "The very coinage of your brain": Unseen presences, bodiless creations (in Hamlet and other plays) For more details see here.
She took part and read from her short stories at the King’s Lynn Fiction Festival from 10-12 March 2006, gave a talk and a reading in Malta on 8-9 May for the University of Malta and the British Council; she attended and spoke at the conference on ‘Autobiographical writing and changing consciousness of time’ at the University of Rotterdam on May 15 (http:/www.fhk.eur.nl/onderzoek/egodocumenten); she participated in a panel for New Writing Worlds at University of East Anglia ( www.newwritingpartnership.org.uk).
From August 15-25, she took part in the Summer Academy 2006 at the Zentrum Paul Klee, Berne, Switzerland on the theme 'Experiments in Pop: Towards a New Vernacular’ Her talk there is to be published by the Museum later this year.
In New York last fall/autumn, MW gave seminars at the Remarque Institute and the New York Institute for the Humanities; a talk on Kiki Smith at the Whitney Museum; and lectures in the Medieval Studies at Harvard, and on fairy-tales at Montclair University, New Jersey.
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