Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Comparative European Literature
Ali Smith
31 January - 21 February 2012
University of Oxford
Ali Smith served as Humanitas Visiting Professor in Comparative European Literature 2012, delivering four lectures.
Ali Smith is the author of eight works of fiction, including the novel Hotel World, which was short-listed for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award, and The Accidental, which won the Whitbread Award and was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Her story collections include Free Love, which won a Scottish Arts Council Award, and The Whole Story and Other Stories.
Lecture 1: On Time
31 January 2012
17.30
Lecture 2: On Form
7 February 2012
17.30
Lecture 3: On Edge
14 February 2012
17.30
Lecture 4: On Reflection
21 February 2012
17.30
The Humanitas Chair in Comparative European Literature has been made possible by the generous support of Lord Weidenfeld.
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Vice-Chancellor's Dinner for the Weidenfeld Scholarships
Oxford, 12 June 2012
Club of Three and China High-Level Forum
Beijing, 25 to 26 May 2012
CEDAR-EMWI Girls' Mentoring Day
London, 19 May 2012
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Chinese Studies
University of Cambridge, 9 to 17 May 2012
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Economic Thought
University of Oxford, 8 to 10 May 2012
Conference on Tackling Extremism: Deradicalisation and Disengagement
Copenhagen, 8 to 9 May 2012
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Contemporary Art
University of Oxford, 7 to 10 May 2012
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Museums, Galleries and Libraries
University of Oxford, 7 to 10 May 2012
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Historiography
University of Oxford, 30 April to 3 May 2012
Weidenfeld Scholarships Selection 2012
Egrove Park, Oxford, 28 April 2012
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Opera Studies
University of Oxford, 26 to 28 April 2012
11th Meeting of the European Policy Planners' Network (PPN)
The Hague, 19 to 20 April 2012
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