Marina Warner

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Publication of ‘Filigrana Italiana’

01/04/18

Marina has contributed ‘Filigrana Italiana’ to The Italian Renaissance – A Zest for Life, edited by Michel Jeanneret and Nicolas Ducimetière, published by Legenda (2018) pp127-139.  The Italian Renaissance marks the beginning of the modern era in Weste …

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No Dead Matter – Essay published in ‘Life Like: Sculpture, colour and the body’

21/03/18

Marina has contributed ’No Dead Matter’ essay to ‘Life Like: Sculpture, colour and the body’ by by Luke Syson, Sheena Wagstaff, Emerson Bowyer, and Brinda Kumar, published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) 2018, pp 42-57, the exhibition cata …

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Marina appointed Honorary Fellow of Royal Academy

19/03/18

Marina has been appointed Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy  https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/dame-marina-warner

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Say Shibboleth!

18/03/18

Marina has contributed essay ‘Codes and Creoles’ to Say Shibboleth!  On Visible and Invisible  An exhibition catalogue for the Jewish Museum Hohenems In collaboration with the Jewish Museum Munich, published by Bucher 2018 pp 81-92 More info here  http …

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‘Binsey’ published in Ground Work: Writings on People and Places

15/03/18

Contribution of ‘Binsey’ to Ground Work: Writings on People and Places, edited by Tim Dee published by Penguin Books (2018) pp 248-259. More info here.

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Opening lecture for Annual Humanities Conference, Rekyavik, Iceland.

09/03/18

9th March 2018 MW gives the opening lecture for Annual Humanities Conference, Rekyavik, Iceland. Marina Warner The Truth in Stories.  This article was first given as a lecture in the series ‘Truth to Be Told’ at the Institute of Humanities, University …

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LRB article: Surrealism in Egypt

08/03/18

Marina contributes ‘At Tate Liverpool: Surrealism in Egypt’ to London Review of Books Vol 40 Number 5 pp 28-29 which can be read here.  https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n05/marina-warner/at-tate-liverpool

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Sigmund H. Danziger Jr. Distinguished Lecture  at University of Chicago.

01/03/18

2017-2018 Sigmund H. Danziger Jr. Distinguished Lecture  at University of Chicago. In March 1987 Robert S. Danziger, MD 1980, endowed a fund in honor of his father Sigmund H. Danziger Jr., AB 1937, an inveterate reader and student of the classics. To t …

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Visit to Brussels for Full Circle society

08/02/18

8th-9th February 2018 ‘This season promises a whole new range of inspiring, eminent and original thinkers, from the fields of social health, terrorism, anthropology, film, economics, investigative journalism, culture, language, business, activism, and  …

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Evil Stepmother, Reimagined

02/02/18

Marina Warner contributed ‘Evil Stepmother, Reimagined’ an essay review of the recent reissue of Barbara Comyns’s “The Juniper Tree to The New York Times Book Review, published 02/04 issue, 2018 Evil Stepmother, Reimagined The plot of “The Juniper Tree …

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