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College Events

DATE & TIME EVENTS PLACE
Tues 13 July 20.00 Port Talk on 'Promoting learning and well being - the Thomas Coram approach'. Speaker: Bernadette Duffy, Head teacher of Thomas Coram Churchill Room, London House
Wed 14 July 13.30 Jessica Zhu Recital Large Common Room, London House
Sun 18 July 17.00 Chopin Recital II given by Jayson Gillham, Goodenough College member. Large Common Room, London House
Sat 7 - Sat 14 August Katherine & Aaron Murphy Arts Exhibition. Large Common Room, William Goodenough House

Recommended Events in London

London Literature Festival

Dates: 1 July 2010 to 18 July 2010

Venue: Southbank Centre

Bret Easton Ellis and Brazilian football legend Socrates headline London's fourth Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre, featuring some of the world's best writers.

If you like to lose yourself in a good book, let your imagination run wild as the London Literature Festival takes you on an exciting adventure this summer!

London Literature Festival at Southbank Centre

With music, writing, poetry, debate and live performances, the 2010 London Literature Festival promises to be bigger and better than ever.

Expect an entertaining and engaging programme of events including workshops, readings, discussions, performances and displays.

Budding writers can get involved at the Creative Writing Summer School, and there will also be discussion sessions with the Southbank Centre Book Club.

Highlights of London Literature Festival 2010

The packed programme features exciting firsts and rare appearances by some of the world's best writers, thinkers and poets.

Highlights include:

Ben Goldacre: The Bad Science Lecture 1 Jul

Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek 5 Jul

A lecture by American Psycho author, Bret Easton Ellis 13 Jul

Contemporary performances of Dante's Inferno and Moby Dick

Brazilian football legend Sócrates 18 Jul

 

Free Guided Walks of Bloomsbury

 

Academic Lectures & Events Websites of Interest

The following are websites, which feature academic events, lectures and conferences.

UK Lecture List for lecture information throughout the UK www.lecturelist.org

British Library host events and exhibitions: www.bl.uk/cgi-bin/events.cgi

School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Conference and Lectures: http://www.soas.ac.uk/about/events/events.php

School of Advanced Studies events and listings: www.sas.ac.uk/events/list/sas_events

Institute of Historical Research: www.history.ac.uk/ihrseminars or http://www.history.ac.uk/events/moreevents.html

Centre for New Zealand Studies Birkbeck, University of London
The Centre offer conferences and lectures free to the public: www.nzsa.co.uk/conferences.htm