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  1. Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £120.00
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  2. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs: part 4: module 3
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 28 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Hugo Cook
    Improve your ability to read texts in hieroglyphs and gain (or continue to gain) a deeper understanding of ancient Egyptian literature and culture. Suitable for those who have attended part 4: module 2 of the hieroglyphs course but also for those who have an equivalent level of knowledge.
    Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £209.00 Concession £136.00
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  6. Utopia, history and a project
    Course start date:  Wed 30 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Christian Michel
    Should we pursue utopias, or resign ourselves to the society we have? Should we fear utopias because implementing them is so costly? Or are utopias just about understanding our society?
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00
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  7. Cultureplex ciné-club 2
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 1 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Paul Sutton
    Come and join us at the Cultureplex Ciné-Club 2, where once a week, for 10 weeks (and throughout the academic



    year), we will watch and discuss film. Taking its cue from the famous Parisian ciné-club set up by the celebrated critic and writer, André Bazin, ‘the single thinker most responsible for bestowing on cinema the prestige both of an artform and of an object of knowledge’, and the man who foresaw the emergence of film studies as a legitimate discipline of academic study, our contemporary incarnation of the film club will offer a curated series of films for detailed study, discussion and debate. Each film will be introduced, placed in both its cinematic, cultural and historic context. In sharing our viewing in City Lit’s premier screening room, the Cultureplex, we will approximate the experience of watching film in the cinema, one that is intense and fully focussed in a way that other modes of viewing often are not. After the screening we will devote the rest of the class to a collective exploration of the film, led by the tutor, but involving everyone in a participatory discussion that will allow all to express their responses, their views, their thoughts on the film screened.







    Please note that this course will screen a new and different set of films to HF211 Cultureplex Cine-Club, which will run with the same films screened last year. If you took the Cultureplex Cine-Club course last year (2023-4), please ensure that you take the Cultureplex Cine-Club 2 courses this year.
    Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £249.00 Concession £162.00
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  8. Isis, Mithras and Christ: iconography and mythology
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    Course start date:  Wed 7 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Michael Bloomfield
    An introduction to the history, essential beliefs, mythology, and iconography, of three influential religions



    of the Graeco-Roman world: Isis, the mystery cult devoted to Mithras and Christ.
    Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £209.00 Concession £136.00
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