Public Lectures and Readings

Suburban Childhoods
Venue: Other
Time: 18:30 - 19:30
Speakers: Michael Frayn, Dennis Marks
A joint King's College London and English PEN event.

Venue: Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre, Strand, KCL. CLICK HERE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION.

The Communist Manifesto - London 1848
Venue: British Library
Time: 18:30
Speakers: Eric Hobsbawm; chair, Gareth Stedman Jones (Professor of Political Science, King’s College, Cambridge)
Marx and Engels’ "Manifest der Kommunistichen Partei" is one of the most famous and influential political documents in world history. It was written for a group of German revolutionary exiles based in London during November–December 1847, and printed in February 1848 as a clandestine pamphlet for private distribution.

Despite a flurry of interest at the time, there are relatively few surviving copies of this slim 23–page pamphlet. To mark the recent acquisition of a copy of the first edition by the British Library, this talk by one of our most eminent historians, Eric Hobsbawm, will explain how and why the Manifesto emerged, before going on to play its extraordinary role in world history.

Cost: £7.50 / £5 concessions. Tickets available at British Library Box Office, tel. 01937 546546 (9am-5pm Mon-Fri), or in person at The British Library.

Seaside Autobiography
Venue: Other
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Speakers: Michael Bracewell, Lara Feigel, Andrew Kotting, Alan Read
A joint King's College London and English PEN event.

Venue: Old Anatomy Theatre, Strand, KCL. CLICK HERE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION.

Lecture and Book Launch: "Gandhi: Naked Ambition"
Venue: The School's Common Room
Time: 18:00
Speakers: Jad Adams (IES Visiting Research Fellow)
'A semi-repressed sex maniac'? - Gandhi's experiments in chastity' by Jad Adams. Followed by the launch of "Gandhi: Naked Ambition" (Quercus, 2010).

All welcome. If you would like to attend please email Jon Millington.

Looking at the Acropolis in the Age of Enlightenment
Venue: Room G22/24 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Time: 00:00
Speakers: William St Clair (Institute of English Studies Senior Research Fellow)
Co-hosted with the Institute of Classical Studies. Details to be confirmed.

MMSDA Public Lecture
Venue: Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Time: 17:30
Speakers: Simon Tanner (King's College London Digital Consultancy Services) Details to be confirmed.
Offered in conjunction with the AHRB funded course Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age.