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- Japanese novellas and short storiesCourse start date: Fri 26 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Lewis WardShort stories offer a brief window into a variety of other lives, places, and situations. This literary form has remained popular in Japan over several centuries, with topics as diverse as natural disasters, the beauty of everyday life, hellish curses and the consequences of fame. We’ll explore the history of this medium through a selection of short stories by some of Japan’s most popular short story authors.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £64.00 - Friday lates: magical modernism: modern art and the occult
Course start date: Fri 26 Jan 2024Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Christopher CollierDiscover Modern Art’s secret history: a mysterious melting-pot of mystic auras, magical colour theories, trances, alchemy and the spirit-physics of the 4th-dimension, hiding beneath the familiar stories of science, reason and industry.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Heaven and hell in world religionsCourse start date: Mon 29 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vanessa KingCompare and contrast the afterlife beliefs of the five major religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity and Judaism. Explore how these ideas developed and influenced each other.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00 - Fin de siecle writers: Oscar Wilde to Olive SchreinerCourse start date: Mon 29 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Megan BeechThis online course will look at the unique style of writers who emerged at the end of the nineteenth century. We’ll explore fin de siècle writers who were grappling with new questions of modernity. Using the exciting backdrop of the 1890s, this course explores the cultural innovations of the period alongside the works of Oscar Wilde and other writers of this period.
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 £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Writing science fiction Course start date: Tue 30 Jan 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: KR MoorheadLearn how to build futuristic worlds and set them to explore thought-provoking concepts in this course on writing science fiction.
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 - The French RevolutionCourse start date: Tue 30 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Zoe QuinnIn 1789 ordinary French people successfully rebelled against the absolute monarchy and privileged nobility. Find out how the struggle over the social and political system which would replace the Ancien Regime would divide both France and Europe. Tutor: Zoe Quinn.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £58.00 - Ulysses episode-by-episodeCourse start date: Tue 30 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Niall CulliganUlysses is often thought of as one of the most daunting novels of the twentieth century, perhaps more often talked about than read. This course will take on the book episode-by-episode, breaking it down into manageable chunks and gradually working through the key themes, characters and stylistic devices. We will use the guides to the book that James Joyce himself provided, while exploring alternative ways of reading this modernist masterpiece. By the end of the course, you will have a thorough working knowledge of both Ulysses and Joyce’s life.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - Unreliable and impossible storytellers: Hotel World, Elizabeth is Missing, Lincoln in the Bardo, PiranesiCourse start date: Tue 30 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kate WilkinsonThis course focuses on the intriguing and unlikely storytellers at work in recent fiction. How do we believe a story told by a woman who has dementia or a man who thinks that only fifteen people ever lived? What do we think when a dead person is telling the story, or a ghost? What are we to make of these improbable and sometimes unsettling stories? Can these unusual narrators open up new ways of thinking about the world?Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Cold Wars, old and newCourse start date: Tue 30 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Francesca GranelliIn this course we will explore more than just the Cold War between the USA and USSR. We will explore the meaning of Cold Wars, where they were (and are) fought, how and by who.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £58.00 - Arts of Imperial ChinaCourse start date: Tue 30 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Meitao QuExplore the arts of imperial China spanning across 13 dynasties and 2000 years. Study how painting, sculpture, and architecture were deeply shaped by its richly diverse culture, philosophy, and religion.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00 - Once upon a time in New Hollywood: '70s cinemaCourse start date: Thu 1 Feb 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: John WischmeyerNew Hollywood is a state of mind, not just a place on a map of LA—a film movement led by film school graduates (so there’s hope for you yet) with a passion for filmmaking and the desire to challenge a stagnant status quo. They formed a new wave, working within the studio system but bringing an independent and radical perspective to mainstream filmmaking. These ‘movie brats’ included George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Brian De Palma, Francis Ford Coppola. And don’t forget Robert Altman. (See separate but related courses on Robert Altman, Francis Coppola, David Lynch and the Coen brothers).
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £149.00 - Ancient cities St. Paul knewCourse start date: Thu 1 Feb 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michael BloomfieldDiscover eight intriguing ancient cities, amazing places to visit today, but raw and turbulent in their Graeco-Roman heyday.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - Romantic poets of the south westCourse start date: Thu 1 Feb 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Woody RiverWith its wild, rugged terrain and history of radicalism, the West Country was an ideal setting for the Romantic imagination. Drawing on a selection of poems, letters, journals and manifestos, this course explores how the landscape and people of the South West shaped the ideas and inspired the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats.
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 £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Revolution in the 21st CenturyCourse start date: Thu 1 Feb 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Francesca GranelliRevolutions are not only a thing of the past. Join Dr. Granelli to discuss revolutions in the 21st century!
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £58.00 - Borderlines of madness in 19th century fiction
Course start date: Fri 2 Feb 2024Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sarah WiseWe will explore various themes related to insanity and altered states of consciousness by examining a number of 19th-century works of fiction. Novelists and poets often had the greatest insights into the workings of the mind, and many Victorian psychiatrists cited works of fiction in their case studies. Among the authors we will analyse are Charlotte Bronte, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Gogol, Herman Melville and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
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