​Marina Warner will join us and answer your questions about her latest book SANCTUARY, in conversation with Lisa Appignanesi.

​Sanctuary is an ancient right. It both promises and is a haven.  It is a place of refuge and of freedom from harm.

​With brilliance and erudition, the distinguished cultural historian Marina Warner teases out the principles that govern the ancient tradition of sanctuary.  Crucially, she also asks, could a revived practice of sanctuary today offer security and a home for the displaced. This is a groundbreaking book which explores the principles that underpin the tradition of ‘sanctuary’. It was written alongside work with the Stories in Transit project bringing young refugees together with artists, writers and musicians in the UK and in Sicily to invent or reimagine stories and perform them.

​Warner reflects on the ways stories address the worst experiences of humanity, and argues that the act of storytelling offers a salve, a route to a site of mutual interaction and understanding, a new place of belonging and conviviality.

​You can buy the book on this link via Bookshop.org.

Register to join on 30 March (7-8pm, online), here.