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underground
Arts & Humanities Festival
1524 October 2014
The underground has been irresistibly fascinating to the human mind.
As geological fact it has offered shelter in caves; precious minerals; the terrors of quicksand
and volcanoes; the residues of prehistoric time, evolution, earlier civilisations.
Our cultures have used it to bury the dead; to organize our urban flows of water, waste,
power, and transport; to dispose of the toxic; or to dig in during wartime, in foxholes,
trenches, dugouts, air-raid shelters.
The underground is also a potent cultural and political metaphor. The underworld has been
imagined as the realm of the dead. It also suggests the hidden underside of ordered society:
criminality, gangs, vice; but also the exploited: the trafficked; slaves; sweat-shop workers;
the underclass. It captures ideas of the black market, illegal immigration, addiction.
It has served as a metaphor of mind; for the unconscious, the repressed. But the
underground is also a site of resistance to social repression: where freedom is forced to hide.
Underground literature, film, music, creates a space for the counter-cultural and for protest.
With fracking in the news, we are reminded of the eco-politics of the underground,
as well as of the atmosphere and the oceans. The underground is the site of growth and
decomposition; of worms as well as roots; of destruction and creativity.
This years varied and vibrant programme gives a cross-section of the research being carried
out in Arts & Humanities at Kings. It will be exciting, thought-provoking and entertaining.
Max Saunders
Festival Director
To book go to www.kcl.ac.uk/ahfest
All details correct at time of print for latest programme information please visit our website.
underground
Arts & Humanities Festival 2014
Uppe Folly
Mobile Studio is delighted
to collaborate with Kings
College London to create a
temporary pop-up folly for the
Arts & Humanities Festival
2014.
The Strand Quadrangle is a
long and relatively narrow
space confined by the tall
facades of Kings College
Londons Strand Campus and
Somerset House. In response
to the theme underground
Uppe Folly seeks to
encourage visitors to simply
stop and look up something
we often forget to do in a
dense and busy city such as
London.
Installation
Campus opening hours: 09.00-20.00
Throughout October 2014
Quad, Strand Campus
Exhibition of photography
18.30-21.30, Wednesday 15 October 2014 more dates in side panel
Anatomy Museum, Kings Building, Strand Campus
Colony: Part I
Do you see him? Do you
see the story? Do you see
anything? It seems I am trying
to tell you a dream, making
a vain attempt, because no
relation of a dream can convey
the dream sensation, that
commingling of absurdity,
surprise, and bewilderment in
a tremor of struggling revolt,
that notion of being captured
by the incredible which is the
very essence of dreams...
(Joseph Conrad)
A collaboration between
playwrights JINGAN YOUNG,
THOMAS MCMULLAN, LYDIA
THOMSON, VINAY PATEL,
ALLAN JOHNSON, poet JACK
UNDERWOOD and artist
AOWEN JIN
Founded in January of 2013
by Hong Kong born playwright
Jingan Young, POKFULAM RD
PRODUCTIONS is a non-profit
London & Hong Kong theatre
company dedicated to new
writing particularly unheard
East Asian/Chinese voices.
POKFULAM began with a
humble rehearsed reading
in the basement of the
celebrated Albion Bookshop
in north Oxford, followed by
another showcase of new
writing at Maybe a Vole Art
Gallery. POKFULAMs first
full-scale production, Youngs
play The t-group, premiered
to a sold out run during the
Kings College London Arts &
Humanities Festival 2013.
This event also takes place on
Guided tours of
Aldwych Underground Station
Aldwych Underground
station was opened as Strand
station on 30 November 1907
and was closed to passengers
in 1994. Now it is mainly a
museum piece, hired out as
a film set and the ticket hall
is frequently used for art
exhibitions, book launches
and other private parties.
The station has a mystique
surrounding it as it was used
as a public air raid shelter
during the Second World
War, including throughout the
Blitz. It was originally named
Strand as it was built on the
site of the Strand Theatre,
but was later renamed to
Aldwych, meaning old
village, in 1915.
Tickets: 5.
Book at www.kcl.ac.uk/ahfest
Guided tours
17.00-18.15, Friday 17 October 2014 more dates in side panel
Aldwych Underground Station, entrance on Surrey Street
Life Drawing
Drawing has been a
fundamental part of human
experience, from the earliest
recorded traces of art in
underground caves. Why
do we draw, and what
happens to us when we do?
Children are prolific with
pencils and crayons, and
many adults doodle. But
often they give up drawing.
Why do we sometimes
think we cant draw?
Acclaimed Indian artist Dilip
Sur returns to the Arts &
Humanities Festival for a third
year, offering a series of life
drawing workshops. They
will approach the existential
energies of drawing, offering
a space for participants to
explore the practices of
drawing including people
who havent drawn since
childhood.
Under Kings:
tracing the outlines of the old Somerset House
Beneath the Kings College
London Strand Campus lie
the remains of the east wing
of the old Somerset House,
which was demolished along
with the rest of the former
royal palace in 1776. This was
the wing that was built for
Anne of Denmark in 1609-13,
and through the greater part
of the 17th century housed
the private apartments of the
Queen of England from
Anne to Henrietta Maria
and Catherine of Braganza.
Archaeological investigation
in 2002 detected the presence
of demolition spoil from the
so-called Yellow Room or
Queens Cabinet still buried
under modern tarmac, and
other work since then has
added further discoveries.
Guided tours
11.00-12.00 & 12.30-13.30,
Saturday 18 October 2014 more dates in side panel
Gather at Reception, East Wing, Somerset House,
Kings College London, Strand Campus
Autopoiesis 2.0
The exhibition Autopoiesis
2.0 showcases a selection
of artwork received from
members of the public who
are from, living in or transiting
through the United Arab
Emirates. It stems from a
digital art project, led by
Btihaj Ajana, which seeks to
capture, in honest and varied
ways, the diverse identities
and multifarious cultures
of the UAE, beyond the
discourses and representations
of official institutions. The
series of multimedia work
presented in this exhibition
provides the viewer with a
window into the personal
and communal aspects of the
region as experienced by its
own residents and visitors.
The exhibition is free and
open to all.
Exhibition
19.00-21.00, Saturday 18 October 2014 more dates in side panel
Anatomy Museum, Kings Building, Strand Campus
SOMERSET HOUSE is a
spectacular neo-classical
building in the heart of London,
sitting between the Strand
and the River Thames. During
summer months 55 fountains
dance in the courtyard, and
in winter you can skate on
Londons favourite ice rink.
Somerset House also hosts
open-air concerts and films,
contemporary art and design
exhibitions, family workshops
and free guided tours of
spaces usually hidden to
visitors.
The Trusts mission is to
conserve and maintain
Somerset House to the highest
standards and to develop the
site as a public space which
is universally recognised as a
world class visitor attraction
and centre of excellence for
culture and the arts.
The tour will also take place at
17.15 on Thursday 23 October.
Guided tours
12.15; 13.15; 14.15; 15.15;
Sunday 19 October 2014 more dates in side panel
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA
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In conversation: Sheltering in
London in the Second World War
18.30-20.00
18.30-21.30
Exhibition of photography:
The Unforgettable & the Unspoken
see p4 for details
Sheltering in London
in the Second World War
When the first sustained
bombing attacks on London
began in September 1940,
vast numbers of Londoners
dashed underground. Over
the next eight months of the
Blitz, thousands of people
spent hours at a time in
basements, public shelters
and tube stations. Quickly,
communities developed,
with certain shelters known
for their camaraderie and
others for their seediness. And
artists began to document the
peculiar new life being created
underground, most notably
Henry Moore who found
that the reclining figures of
his sculptures had been given
a strange actuality in the
sleeping shelterers.
In conversation
18.30-20.00, Wednesday 15 October 2014
Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre,
Kings Building, Strand Campus
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In conversation
18.30-20.00, Wednesday 15 October 2014
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Kings Building, Strand Campus
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Exhibition of photography:
The Unforgettable & the Unspoken
see p4 for details
18.30-20.00
20.00-22.00
18.30-20.00
18.30-20.30
19.00-20.30
20.00-21.30
Inaugural Lecture
18.30-20.00, Thursday 16 October 2014
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Kings Building, Strand Campus
After party 20.00-22.00 join us for dancing in Chapters
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Exhibition talk
18.30-20.00, Thursday 16 October 2014
Nash Lecture Theatre, Kings Building, Strand Campus
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DANIELE GAGLIANONE is an
Italian-born writer and
director, known for his
documentaries as well as
his narrative features. He
is involved with the National
Film Archive of the Resistance
in Turin, Italy, and teaches
workshops at the OffiCine
Mattli in Macerata.
DONATA PUNTIL is the Team
Leader for Italian, Spanish
& Linguistics at the Modern
Language Centre. Her main
research interests include
applied linguistics, cinema,
literature, visual arts,
psychology of education and
psychoanalysis.
SILVIA COLAIACOMO is deputy
team leader for Italian at
the Modern Language Centre.
She is currently leading a
working group on Conversation
Analysis applied to foreign
language teaching.
PAOLO NELLI is a Lecturer of
Italian at the Modern Language
Centre. He is also a published
author of novels and short
stories.
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Gods underground in
Roman London (& beyond)
2014 marks the 60th
anniversary of the discovery of
the temple of the god Mithras
near the Walbrook, just
south-west of the Bank of
England and at the centre
of Roman London. Still
one of the most important
excavations to have taken
place in the city, this was
an archaeological sensation,
revealing a rich collection of
cult statuary buried in the
floor of the building, which
was built in the mid-third
century AD. The temple was
not only underground in that
it had been buried and lost to
memory in the intervening
1500 years; its unobtrusive
low-lying position by the
stream also contributed to the
secretive initiate character of
the cult, to which the shrines
location and form were central.
Discussion
19.00-20.30, Thursday 16 October 2014
Council Room, Kings Building, Strand Campus
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16.00-20.00
Exhibition of photography:
The Unforgettable & the Unspoken
see p4 for details
17.00-18.15
18.30-20.00
18.30-20.00
18.30-20.00
18.30-20.30
19.00-20.00
19.00-00.00
Dantes Inferno:
a marathon reading
Dantes Inferno, widely hailed
as one of the great classics of
Western literature, is the first
part of his 14th-century epic
poem Divine Comedy. It tells
of the poets journey through
Hell, in which Hell is depicted
as nine circles of suffering
located within the Earth.
The voyage begins during
Easter week in the year 1300,
the descent through Hell
starting on Good Friday.
After meeting his guide, the
Roman poet Virgil, in a dark
wood, the two poets begin
their descent through a baleful
world of doleful shades,
horrifying tortures, and
unending lamentation.
Reading
13.00-19.00, Friday 17 October 2014
Chapel, Kings Building, Strand Campus
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Debate
18.30-20.00, Friday 17 October 2014
River Room, Kings Building, Strand Campus
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In the Mix:
DJs, dance floors, diasporas
From house parties and music
festivals to the rueda and the
techno rave, the DJ plays
a crucial role in stitching
together the sonic narrative
of the dance floor. But what
does a DJ do, exactly? How
does she or he create mood
through music? And why do
DJs still matter in a moment
where iTunes charts and the
Beatport Top 100 dictate
what people think they want
to hear?
JOHN ARMSTRONG is a
London media litigation
lawyer by profession (no
longer practising) and a DJ,
broadcaster, album compiler,
writer, music journalist and
record collector by passion
since early childhood.
WILFRID VERTUEUX (DJ WILLY
THE VIPER), visual designer and
DJ from Paris, was brought
up in metropolitan France,
but received an education
from his parents that kept
alive his connection to French
Caribbean roots.
BENJAMIN LEBRAVE is founder
of Akwaaba, an organisation
dedicated to spreading African
music and pop culture. Born
and raised in Paris, Benjamin
graduated from ENSAE (Paris
Tech) with a double masters
degree in economics and
statistics. Benjamin now runs
Akwaaba from Accra, Ghana.
Panel discussion
18.30-20.00, Friday 17 October 2014
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Kings Building, Strand Campus
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Dead spaces?
Crypts & cemeteries in modern London
We tend to think about burial
places as cities of the dead,
not least in the context of the
gothic imaginings of ghost
and horror stories. Yet it is of
course the living who invest
meaning in crypts, cemeteries
and churchyards, and their
histories offer fascinating
sometimes macabre and
piquant insights into
social, cultural, religious and
national history, not least in
the metropolis of London.
This event brings together
three historians who have
played important parts in the
recent investigation of the
history of such places in the
capital city. Arthur Burns
will explore the remarkable
story of how the crypt of St
Pauls Cathedral developed
into one of the capitals major
tourist attractions as a site of
national memory. Malcolm
Johnson will draw on his
unrivalled knowledge of
Panel discussion
18.30-20.00, Friday 17 October 2014
Nash Lecture Theatre, Kings Building, Strand Campus
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Electric Underground
Trio Aporia + live electronics
Electric Underground
an electro-acoustic trip within
and beneath. Trio Aporia,
on the threshold as found
object, occupies Aldwych
Underground Station,
weaving readymade resonant
bodies of sound, permeating
this unique acoustic space.
Fields of sustained tones
repetition and difference, in an
exploration of the infrathin,
making the inaudible audible.
Electric Underground
provides the perfect
atmospheric, non-concert
hall environment for world
premieres of new commissions
by Paul Newland and Paul
Whitty and the opportunity
to enjoy evocative pieces
composed for Aporia by Alan
Williams (New Music North
West Festival, 2013) and Neal
Farwell (Rameau+new
sonic worlds project, 2014),
alongside acoustic works
by renaissance composers,
Sweelinck and Hume.
Performance
19.00-20.00, Friday 17 October 2014
Aldwych Underground Station, Surrey Street entrance
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Immersive performance
19.00-23.59, Friday 17 October 2014
Gather at FWB Reception, Waterloo Campus
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DR K FAITH LAWRENCE is
a Research Associate in
Digital Humanities working
on various projects from
Classical Gnomologia and
Prosopographia, Medieval
witness testimonies and
probate rulings, to C20th
musical theorists. When
not involved in development
her research areas include
narrative annotation, linked
data and fan works.
DREW BAKER is a research
fellow within the Department
of Digital Humanities at
Kings College London. One
of the founding members
of the Kings Visualisation
Lab, he has worked in the
field of 3D visualisation and
interpretation of archaeology
and history since 1997.
11.00-13.00
14.00-16.00
17.00-19.00
18.00-19.30
19.00-21.00
19.30-21.00
20.00-21.30
Conference
09.00-19.00, Saturday 18 October 2014
Council Room, Kings Building, Strand Campus
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Through a unique
combination of intuition and
analytical intelligence, the
charismatic Kwenda is able
to reach out to the group
no matter what the precise
conditions are: the dimensions
of the room, languages shared
(or not), and the number of
participants.
This is guaranteed to
be an exhilarating and
transformative experience for
all. Come and feel the power
of percussion coursing through
your body as you move (and
think) like you never thought
you could!
Dance workshop
11.00-14.00, Saturday 18 October 2014
Chapters, Kings Building, Strand Campus
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Film screening
18.00-21.30, Saturday 18 October 2014
Lucas Lecture Theatre, Strand Building, Strand Campus
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13.00-15.00
16.00-18.00
14.00-16.00
15.00-17.00
18.00-19.30
Beyond Burlesque
the changing face of cabaret
Cabaret and burlesque has
always been a performance
art on the fringes of
society; from the bohemian
beginnings of the Moulin
Rouge in Paris to the newly
established Butterfly Club
in Melbourne. It has been
celebrated all over the western
world by those looking for
entertainment that is a little
different, a little racy and
challenging the status quo.
In recent years cabaret has
had a renaissance in popular
culture and more mainstream
venues have opened, with a
leaning towards burlesque
performance of a bygone age.
However, during this time it
has also been embraced by
artists who take an alternative
view of the traditional cabaret
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Theatre
15.00-17.00, Sunday 19 October 2014
Chapel, Kings Building, Strand Campus
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Film screening
18.00-19.30, Sunday 19 October 2014
Lucas Lecture Theatre, Strand Building, Strand Campus
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To be a companion piece to
Crime & Punishment, which
is screened on Saturday 18
October (see p31).
These film screenings will
inform the panel discussion
with Richard Ayoade, taking
place on Monday 20 October
(see p38).
18.00-19.15
Guided tours:
Aldwych Underground Station
see p6 for details
19.00-20.30
19.00-20.30
19.30-20.30
20.00-21.30
Double Vision:
Dostoevsky on film
Wheatley, Lecturer in
Film Studies at Kings
College London, and Max
Saunders, Director of the
Arts & Humanities Research
Institute at Kings College
London. The evening will be
chaired by Ben Quash of the
Department of Theology &
Religious Studies.
The discussion will use both
Dostoevskys novella and the
film it has inspired to think
about how the themes of
doubles and doubleness can
help us think about sameness,
otherness, the sustainability
and dissolubility of selfhood,
and the difficulties involved in
negotiating identity under the
pressures of modernity.
Ayoades The Double will
be screened on Sunday 19
October (see p36) and Crime
& Punishment on Saturday 18
October (see p31).
Panel discussion
17.30-19.00, Monday 20 October 2014
Council Room, Kings Building, Strand Campus
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Modernism Underground
In January 1863 the first
underground train departed
from Paddington to
Farringdon in London. By
1902 there were metro and
U-Bahn trains running in
Paris and Berlin. Suddenly,
journeying beneath the
city became a regular part
of modern life and writers
and artists responded with
curiosity, excitement or horror
to the new 20th-century
underworld, voyaging into
modernity or descending
into hell depending on
their inclination.
Panel discussion
19.00-20.30, Monday 20 October 2014
Edmund J Safra Lecture Theatre,
Kings Building, Strand Campus
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Radical Opera
Ever imagined Puccini set in a
Chinese restaurant or Berlioz
transported to Nazi Germany?
Radical stagings of opera such
as these are not unusual. But
what would happen if you
radically interpreted the music
of an opera as well as the
staging?
Illustrated debate
19.30-20.30, Monday 20 October 2014
St Davids Room, Kings Building, Strand Campus
DANIEL LEECH-WILKINSON
studied composition,
harpsichord and organ at
the Royal College of Music,
then took the MMus at Kings,
specialising in 15th-century
music. He is currently working
on Performers Perceptions
of Music as Shape within
the AHRC Research Centre
for Musical Performance as
Creative Practice.
FREDERIC WAKE-WALKER is a
director, producer and curator
of opera and multi-discipline
arts. He has directed at
Glyndebourne, Scottish Opera,
Buxton Festival, La Monnaie
Brussels, Opera North, Oviedo,
Konzerthaus Berlin, RCS
Glasgow and Aldeburgh Music.
MAHOGANY OPERA GROUP
creates new opera in new
ways, in different spaces and
places throughout the UK and
internationally. It presents
each distinct project with a
vitality that stretches the
boundaries of what opera can
be and who it is for.
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Panel discussion:
Underground Medieval London 3
18.00-19.30
18.30-20.00
18.30-21.00
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20.00-21.30
20.00-21.30
Performance
10.00-12.00, Tuesday 21 October 2014
St Etheldredas Church, 14 Ely Place, London EC1N 6RY
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This an opportunity to
hear Irish artist and singer
Ceara Conway reflect upon
her engagement with the
medieval past in her work.
She will also answer any
questions about her specially
commissioned performance
for St Etheldredas crypt.
Ceara will speak alongside
academics who will discuss
their creative responses to
their own medieval research
on the city, saints cults and
devotional culture.
Panel discussion
19.30-21.00, Tuesday 21 October 2014
Old Committee Room, Strand Campus
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Dr Richardson comments:
For some clever
people, thought may be
instantaneous; but for me, it
can sometimes be very slow.
Thoughts take time to form,
and sometimes they may take
years to resolve themselves
into something coherent.
Other times they come in
a flash. This paper is the
result of both these kinds of
thinking, and partly relates to
work I did years ago. I find
myself circling on a cluster of
associations in Dickens, and
finding that they intersect
with the idea of landscapes of
familiarity and of fear.
Talk
18.00-19.30, Tuesday 21 October 2014
Council Room, Kings Building, Strand Campus
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THOMAS ELSAESSER is
Professor Emeritus at the
Department of Media and
Culture of the University of
Amsterdam and since 2013
Visiting Professor at Columbia
University. He has authored,
edited and co-edited some 20
volumes on early cinema, film
theory, German and European
cinema, Hollywood, new media
and installation art. Among his
recent books as author are:
Film Theory: An Introduction
through the Senses (New York:
Routledge, 2010, with Malte
Hagener), The Persistence
of Hollywood (New York:
Routledge, 2012) and German
Cinema Terror and Trauma:
Cultural Memory Since 1945
(New York: Routledge, 2013).
THE BERNAYS LECTURE is the
annual German Department
public lecture. It is staged this
year in association with the
Centre for Modern Literature
and Culture.
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Brazilian Music
from underground to pop
How did Brazilian musical
forms that are refractions
of European contact with
African populations and
cultures in the New World,
move from the underground
to the foreground? From the
underclass to the creative
class? From the countercultural to the Pop?
The choro genre emerged
in Rio de Janeiro in the late
19th century when musicians
blended African-Brazilian
rhythms such as the lundu
with the polka and the
schottische from European
court society. Pixinguinha
took the genre to new heights
in the 1930s and 40s, and
travelled to Europe as a kind
of cultural ambassador with
his band, Oito Batutas, only
to be derided back home for
projecting an image of Brazil
as African, as black.
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Mining Literature
Gordon McMullan is
Director of the London
Shakespeare Centre. He
specialises in Shakespeare
and early modern theatre
and culture. He is a general
textual editor of the
Norton Shakespeare and
a general editor of Arden
Early Modern Drama.
Rosalyn Buckland is a
PhD candidate at Kings
College London, in the
department of English.
Panel discussion
19.00-20.30, Tuesday 21 October 2014
Nash Lecture Theatre, Kings Building, Strand Campus
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Death:
clinical, historical & philosophical
perspectives on dying
We are all going to die. But
how should we think about
death? In what ways might
our health and social systems
better deal with it? How have
earlier thinkers made sense
of it? Is it something that we
should fear?
Debate
19.00-20.30, Tuesday 21 October 2014
Edmund J Safra Lecture Theatre,
Kings Building, Strand Campus
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Book launch
20.00-21.30, Tuesday 21 October 2014
Council Room, Kings Building, Strand Campus
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20.00-21.00
Invisible Languages
Are minor languages the
essential constituents of
cultural diversity and ancestral
knowledge or just passports
with restricted validity,
serving no purpose in todays
global world? According to
estimates by UNESCO, if the
current trend toward linguistic
homogenization continues,
half of the 6000+ languages
spoken today will disappear
by the end of this century.
But even if they are still alive
and kicking, minor languages
are often invisible. A recent
report published by English
PEN has highlighted how
literature written in small
languages has little chance to
be translated into English and
thus make it into the global
literary market.
On UNESCOs list of
endangered languages is
Friulian, a language spoken
by about half a million people
in Friuli, a region of northeastern Italy. In this event,
leaders in their field will
conduct a conversation on the
value and the future of lesserused languages, using Friulian
as the starting point for the
discussion.
The event also launches the
book The Friulian Language:
Identity, Migration, Culture
(Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2014), edited
by Rosa Mucignat from
the Comparative Literature
Programme at Kings College
London. The volume is the
first comprehensive study of
Friulian to be published in
English.
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Panel discusssion
18.30-20.30, Wednesday 22 October 2014
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Kings Building, Strand Campus
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The Choir of
Kings College London
A performance by the Choir
of Kings College London, of
pieces inspired by the Festival
theme underground.
The programme will consist
of music by William Byrd,
who was the leading English
composer of the late sixteenth
century and was a prominent
Roman Catholic composing in
an alien political environment.
Many of his motets echo
themes that the Jesuits used
to describe their plight in
Elizabethan England. They
often referred to the Catholic
community as being the
chosen people Israelites
and used metaphors of exile
(Babylonian, Egyptian) to
describe their circumstance.
Performance
18.30-19.30, Wednesday 22 October 2014
Chapel, Kings Building, Strand Campus
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Panel discussion
18.30-20.00, Wednesday 22 October 2014
Nash Lecture Theatre, Kings Building, Strand Campus
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53 Million Artists:
a creative discussion & workshop on everyday art
Art is what artists do. Who
would disagree? And yet,
the capacity for doing art is
altogether characteristic of
what it is to be a human being.
We have all done art at
some point in our lives; many
continue to do so, even if
they never dream of labelling
themselves as artists.
Suppose for a moment we
stop, take a step back, and ask
some questions about whats
going on: could everyone
be an artist? Indeed, is the
potential within everyone
to be an artist today
everyday?
Such questions are thoughtprovoking, and can lead us
to think about art and our
relationship with it differently.
Come along, join in, and be
part of a movement towards 53
million artists.
Talk
19.00-20.30, Wednesday 22 October 2014
Council Room, Kings Building, Strand Campus
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Robert Newman:
A New Theory of Evolution
Following this years sell-out
run in Londons West End,
and after sell-out shows in
Belfast, Bristol, Birmingham,
Cardiff, Manchester and
Edinburgh, A New Theory
of Evolution now comes to
Kings College London!
A New Theory of
Evolution tells how a series
of personal calamities and
jammy flukes led Rob to hit
upon a whole new theory of
evolution, which he calls the
Survival of the Misfits.
A New Theory of
Evolution explores the
exciting new discoveries in the
field of evolutionary biology,
which, the show argues, have
put paid to selfish gene theory
to open up instead a much
more intriguing world of
wonder.
A New Theory of
Evolution is a tour de force
that whirls the audience from
altruistic vampire bats and
laidback rats to WH Audens
last poem, the polar jet
stream and Richard Dawkins
wrestling naked with his
postman.
Performance
20.00-21.00, Wednesday 22 October 2014
Chapel, Kings Building, Strand Campus
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ROBERT NEWMAN is a
writer and comedian.
Born in Hackney. Grew up
in Hertfordshire villages
Datchworth, Codicote and
Whitwell. Turned down by
nine universities and only
accepted by one: Cambridge.
Skateboarding for 37 years
and still not any good. He lives
in London with his Bulgarian
partner and their child.
He is the funniest comedian I
have ever seen... A passionate,
chaotically brilliant comedian
Sunday Times
If this world could be saved
by a Superhero whose
Superpower was Comedy, that
hero would be Robert Newman
Kate Copstick,
The Scotsman
17.15-18.15
18.30-20.00
19.00-20.30
19.30-21.30
Performance: JARMAN
(all this maddening beauty)
20.00-21.30
20.00-21.30
Inaugural lecture
18.30-20.00, Thursday 23 October 2014
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Kings Building, Strand Campus
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JARMAN
(all this maddening beauty)
About the artists:
John Moletress
(director/performer) is
an interdisciplinary artist,
educator and Founding
Director of force/collision, a
performance ensemble based
in Washington, DC. He has
created new work for both site
and stage, having performed
at such venues as The John
F Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts, George
Washington University and
Unity Theatre for Homotopia!
Performance
19.30-21.30, Thursday 23 October 2014
Tutus, Macadam Building, Strand Campus
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17.00-21.00
18.00-19.15
18.30-21.00
18.30-20.00
19.00-20.30
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Hellish Persons:
personifications of the underworld
from antiquity to the present
Hades, Sheol, and hell are
different kinds of underworld,
ranging from shadowy cold
realms of the dead to fiery
places of punishment. Over
the centuries, they have also
been imagined as persons
with distinctive motivations
and identities. This event
will explore the varied ways
in which poets, artists,
philosophers and theologians
from classical antiquity
to the present day have
represented the underworld
as a person, whether as a
god (Hades, Pluto, Orcus),
as a personification of the
underworld, or as the JudaeoChristian Lord of hell.
Four short talks will explore
ideas of hellish persons in
four different periods and
areas. Emmanuela Bakola
will begin by examining
personifications of Hades in
the classical Greek tradition;
EMMANUELA BAKOLA,
Leverhulme Early Career
Research Fellow, Department
of Classics
Panel discussion
18.30-20.00 Friday 24 October 2014
Nash Lecture Theatre, Kings Building, Strand Campus
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MODERATOR:
BEN QUASH, Professor,
Department of Theology &
Religious Studies
The presentations will be
followed by a half-hour panel
discussion and question-andanswer session.
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FESTIVAL ORGANISATION
Festival curated by the Arts & Humanities Research Institute (AHRI)
Festival Director: PROFESSOR MAX SAUNDERS
Festival team:
PELAGIA PAIS
LAURA DOUGLAS
ABBIE GERRARD
ALEXANDRA CREIGHTON
Tel +44 (0)20 7848 2375
Email ahri@kcl.ac.uk
Festival website: www.kcl.ac.uk/ahfest
#ahfest
Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Kings College London
Strand London WC2R 2LS