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- Politics and Poetics of Museums: Repatriation and decolonisationCourse start date: Sat 8 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Yasmin HalesRoutinely, the discussion on how to address the colonial and imperial past in relation to museum artifacts, collections and exhibitions appears in the media landscapes. The questions are difficult and answers are not straightforward. Join us to learn more and discuss this important challenge.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00 - Ways into Islamic artCourse start date: Tue 11 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Anita ChowdryAn introductory course providing an overview of the development of the visual language of Islamic cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00 - Modern France: from de Gaulle and the Resistance to MacronCourse start date: Thu 20 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sebastien Ardouin(Re)discover France's complex politics during the Fourth and Fifth Republics, and the social challenges and tensions the country faced both at times of growth and modernisation and of crisis and doubts.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Corporate anthropologyCourse start date: Sat 22 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Yasmin HalesThis interdisciplinary course will address the role of anthropology in the corporate world and the critical importance of (neuro)diversity, equality and inclusion. We question how businesses are communicating effectively in a changing post pandemic landscape.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00 - Travel writing workshop
Course start date: Mon 24 Jun 2024Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Susan GrossmanMake travelling pay. Learn how to get a commission, finance a trip and put your adventures into words, led by practical exercises and expert industry guidance.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - The City in Literature: freedom and flappers in the bohemian cityCourse start date: Tue 25 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Alexander Fairbairn-DixonJoin us to explore three works of life writing set in Paris and Berlin between the wars, where café culture, the adventure of the streets, bohemian life, and nocturnal temptations offer opportunities for artistic, personal, and sexual freedom. Set in post-WW1 Paris and pre-WW2 Berlin, writers, artists, and adventurers find themselves entangled within the moving fabric of unpredictable social and political changes. Writers include Ernest Hemingway, Jean Rhys and Christopher Isherwood.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00 - Autobiographical writing: intensive Course start date: Tue 16 Apr 2024 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Paul LaffanThis shorter version of our introductory autobiographical writing course covers the basic elements of the genre, drawing on memories, diaries, photos, dreams and fantasies with a focus on the forms of autobiography, memoir and the personal essay.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £70.00 - Screenwriting for feature film Course start date: Tue 23 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sharmila ChauhanHave you ever wondered what goes into writing a screenplay? How is it different from theatre, radio or prose? Learn the basics of the craft and develop a script of your own in this creative and analytical workshop.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Travel writing Course start date: Wed 18 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Susan GrossmanMake travelling pay. Learn how to get a commission, finance a trip and put your adventures into words, led by practical exercises and expert industry guidance.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Cult TV: the Avengers and the swinging 60sCourse start date: Wed 18 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Paul SuttonAn ‘offbeat, tongue-in-cheek, British, “pop spy” fantasy TV series’, The Avengers has variously been described as ‘one of British TV’s greatest successes’, the ‘highest pinnacle of spy/secret agent television’, ‘constantly kinky’, and ‘part of “swinging London”, along with the King’s Road, Carnaby Street, Twiggy, George Best, Mary Quant and other such icons’. Join us for a course that celebrates this quirky, cult TV serial as we revisit iconic episodes and explore what made The Avengers such an enduring slice of British popular culture.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00 - Poetry workshop: intensive Course start date: Tue 16 Apr 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Julie IrigarayWant to have your poems critiqued in a supportive environment? This intensive poetry workshop focuses on offering feedback to poets who have already written a selection of poems and are looking to push their writing further.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £70.00 - Reading for writers: the short story (a fortnightly course)
Course start date: Tue 16 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Annabel BanksThe best way to write good short stories is to read a lot of good ones first. Dive into the best of short fiction, explore point-of-view, character and pacing, and begin to apply the lessons learnt to your own writing in this fortnightly course.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £70.00 - Philosophy and the problem of evilCourse start date: Wed 2 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
If God exists, and is essentially all-powerful, all-knowing and perfectly good, how could a world which God creates include pain and suffering? This question summarises the so-called ‘problem of evil’ which has preoccupied theistic philosophers for centuries. This course is an introduction to that problem, and to some attempts to solve it.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00 - Languages of the ancient Near East: Sumerian, Akkadian, EgyptianCourse start date: Tue 8 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Vaughan PilikianThis unique and wide-ranging course provides a broad introduction to the three major languages of the Ancient Near East, which together traverse a vast history of four millennia. In them were written some of the great landmarks of world literature, such as the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh, the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Sumerian Descent of Inanna.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00 - Greek and Latin texts by the Church FathersCourse start date: Wed 9 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Mary RuskinCome on a discovery of Patristics, where you'll read, analyse and discuss the texts written by the Church Fathers.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
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