Marina Warner
Diary
JO SPENCE: FAIRY TALES AND PHOTOGRAPHY, Thursday 30th March, 6.30pm
27/03/23Marina joined Patrizia Di Bello, reflecting on the themes of fairy tales and transformation in Jo Spence’s work and its resonances in contemporary culture. The event took place at the Centre of British Photography (49 Jermyn Street, St. James’s, London …
The wicked? stepmother – Free Thinking, BBC R3
17/03/23Listen back to hear Marina speak with New Generation Thinkers Sabina Dosani and Emma Whipday on Free Thinking with Matthew Sweet, where they discussed the figure of the stepmother and the ways this has been created and perceived over time. First broadc …
The Sarah Hughes Trust Lecture, Friday 2 December
10/11/22Friday 2 December, The Sarah Hughes Trust Lecture, 6-9pm, Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, London W1G 0AE. Join Marina as she gives the Sarah Hughes Lecture, discussing the role of mythology and writing as well as the influence of art on creat …
Inside the Cauldron – Kickstarter Campaign! 5 days to go
20/10/2283% funded, with 5 days to go! Inside the Cauldron is a short non-profit film based on an unpublished essay by the British surrealist artist Leonora Carrington [1917-2011]. Carrington gave a copy to Marina Warner, who entrusted it to the filmmakers in …
The Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture, 7 October 2022
03/10/22Marina is giving the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture in New York on 7 October 2022, titled – Strangers in a Strange Land: Displacement, Sanctuary, and the Traveling Tale. Find out more and book here. Marina will return to Said’s ideas about estrangemen …
Flightiness in LRB
12/09/18Review of Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics and Other Airborne Females by Serinity Young Marina’s review of Serinity Young’s book appeared on 30 August 2018 in the London Review of Books, Vol. 40, No. 16. The article can be found here
The Heroine’s Descent
04/09/18Talk at the National Theatre, 14th December 2018 ‘All writing negotiates with the dead’, Margaret Atwood once remarked. Many heroes have gone down into the jaws of hell and brought back knowledge of the underworld – it’s almost a requirement: Odysseus, …
Ovid’s Presence in Contemporary Women’s Writing
01/08/18Marina’s work is discussed in Ovid’s Presence in Contemporary Women’s Writing by Fiona Cox, published by Oxford University Press 2018. ‘This innovative study analyses the presence of Ovid in contemporary women’s writing through a series of insightful …
ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival
10/06/1810th June 2018 5pm ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival at the British Library One Thousand and One Nights Paulo Lemos Horta and Marina Warner in conversation with John Zubrzycki. More info can be found here https://www.bl.uk/events/zee-jaipur-literature-fes …
‘Holy Shape-Shifters’ published
07/06/18Marina Warner has contributed ‘Holy Shape-Shifters’ an essay review of The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at the Roman Street Corner by Harriet I. Flower and Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion by Jörg Rüpke, transl …