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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.

To view the poster for the series, click here.

 

Leading activists from pro-democracy movements in the Middle East, speaking at a Weidenfeld Debate, February 2012
CEDAR Chair Ahmed Larouz, addressing the Social Innovation and Social Action Conference, Lambeth Palace, November 2011
Vanessa Redgrave, Humanitas Visiting Professor in Drama 2012, speaking at the University of Oxford, February 2012.
Lord Weidenfeld and Sir Ronald Grierson, co-founders of the Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Programme, April 2010
HE Karel Schwarzenberg, Czech Foreign Minister, addresses an invited audience at an ISD policy breakfast, October 2011
Historian Saul Friedlander, Inaugural Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography at the University of Oxford, May 2012
Jonathan Powell, former Chief of Staff to Tony Blair, addresses the inaugural Turkey Workshop, London, September 2011
Journalist and blogger Sunny Hundal, delivering a presentation at ISD's Social Media and Intolerance workshop, April 2012
Peter Kellner, President of YouGov and Dr David Muir, Faith in Britain, at the launch conference of the Phoenix Initiative, October 2010