Marina Warner
Diary
5 May 2026 – The Country of Words, Birkbeck Arts Week event + workshop
22/04/26Julia Bell’s new book, Between the Lines, explores the creative writing class from personal experience of its dynamics. Marina Warner’s recent study, Sanctuary: Ways of Telling, Ways of Dwelling, proposes that imaginative story-making can build home an …
17 April 2026, discussing ‘Sanctuary’, Barnsbury Book Festival, 3.30 – 4.30pm
12/03/26Marina Warner’s numerous books, stories and essays explore myth, storytelling, history and society. In Sanctuary she investigates ideas of refuge, hospitality and belonging, and how storytelling helps people endure and understand crisis. She will be di …
30 March 2026, EXPeditions Book Club #2, 7-8pm (online)
12/03/26Marina 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 bril …
19 February 2026, Marina introduces Dr Soody Gholami’s ‘Unhomely England in Post-Imperial British Novels’
12/02/26Next Thursday evening, join the book launch of Unhomely England in Post-Imperial British Novels by Dr Soody Gholami, which will be introduced by Marina. The event is from 6-8pm, and is taking place at Birkbeck Central (Malet St, London WC1E 7HY). Soody …
Marina’s EXPs!
05/01/26There are three videos up on the EXPeditions website where Marina talks about ways of looking, making and understanding art. EXPeditions is: the open-access digital platform created to bridge the gap between scholars and members of the public. Our edit …
ICYMI: Marina’s books of the year for the TLS!
24/12/25Marina selected the following books of note for the TLS: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s The Jewelers of the Ummah: A potential history of the Jewish Muslim world (Verso) makes an inspired, urgent and poetic plea to remember that Arabs and Jews once coexisted …
27 January 2026, Chatter #1: Richard Wentworth with Roger Malbert, Rowan Moore and Marina Warner
22/12/25Drawing Matter’s 2026 Public Programme begins with the launch of Chatter, a new series of evening events in the archive. Chatter evenings are opportunities to gather and talk around drawings and objects from the collection chosen by an invited guest (o …
23 March 2026 – Anna Jameson Lecture
27/11/25Marina will be giving the 2026 Anna Jameson Lecture, titled ‘Rachel Weeping for Her Children’: Memories of Massacre, Flight, and Refuge. The lecture will explore the Massacre of the Innocents, the Flight into Egypt, and the representation of mothers in …
27 Nov – ‘Sanctuary, Safety, and Sacrilege’, All Souls, 15:30-17:00
20/11/25Sanctuary offered safety to fugitives, regardless of their guilt or innocence, for a certain period – usually forty days (a quarantine). It held as a legal right until Henry VIII began its abolition. But the memory of it survives in the form of Sanctua …
25 Nov 2025 – The Cosmic Oval @ Warburg Institute, 6pm
17/11/25Join for an evening of conversation at the Warburg Institute with writer Ella Finer and eminent, writer, mythographer and cultural historian Marina Warner. Ella Finer’s new book The Cosmic Oval takes a nocturnal entrance into an exploration of feminist …