- Refugee Week at City Lit: Refugees and displaced people in modern Chinese history
Course start date: Mon 16 Jun 2025Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Qiuyang ChenJoin this session to understand how displaced people and refugees are central to understanding modern Chinese history. This course is part of City Lit’s Refugee Week events.Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £8.00 Concession £7.00 - Renowned and refugeed - 12 scientists who fled persecution Course start date: Mon 16 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gary RetallickJoin this session to explore the histories of 12 scientists who became refugees.
Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £8.00 Concession £7.00 - Refugee philosophers or philosopher refugeesCourse start date: Tue 17 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Daniel WeizmanIn a time of deepening displacement and border anxiety, the figure of the refugee haunts the contemporary political imagination. This session explores how Jacques Derrida’s reflections on hospitality can reframe our understanding of the stranger, not as a threat to the social order, but as a condition of its ethical renewal.
Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - Queer UK: Broadcasting history Course start date: Tue 17 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Siobhan McGuirkAttitudes towards gender and sexuality have transformed over the past 50 years. Television has documented it all – and sometimes surprisingly driven – radical change. Join us to explore the key moments that shaped Queer UK.
Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £8.00 Concession £7.00 - Rhetoric and Refugees: Deconstructing migrant otherness in politics, pop culture and the press Course start date: Thu 19 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Siobhan McGuirkCasting a critical eye over popular depictions of people on the move, this course explores how categories of difference, deservingness and otherness are constructed and circulated – before considering possible alternative narratives.
Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - Refugee Week at City Lit: the refugee figure in the 20th century Course start date: Fri 20 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Martin JorgensenJoin us to explore the changes in the figure of the refugee as events made people who become refugees a figure in global politics over the course of the 20th century as part of Refugee Week at City Lit.Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £8.00 Concession £7.00 - In conversation with Ella Ritchie Course start date: Fri 20 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join us as Ella introduces the topic of her motivation and the mechanics of how she and her partner set up and manage an organisation with practising artists who have a learning disability that facilitates and promotes genuine inclusiveness in art.Full fee £0.00 - Queer UK: rebels and revolutionaries Course start date: Tue 24 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Siobhan McGuirkUnder-sung heroes, heroines and trancestors have long battled to make life bearable, better and even brilliant for LGBTIQ+ people in the UK. Join us to celebrate key figures in local history – and groups still battling for change
Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £8.00 Concession £7.00 - Van Eyck and the Pre-RaphaelitesCourse start date: Wed 25 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Emma Rose BarberExplore the work of Van Eyck in relation to Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelites more generally; consider how this 15th century painter influenced artists some 300 years later. - Museum and Repatriation Course start date: Fri 27 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Olivia DurandExplore the challenges of decolonising museums, focusing on repatriation, reparations, and ethical dilemmas, with part of the course inside the British Museum.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00 - Sexuality, Colonialism and Law: Is there a better way of achieving safety for gay men internationally? Course start date: Fri 27 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Joshua HeppleNearly seventy countries still criminalise gay sex. Is the West on the right path to universal decriminalisation of same-sex activity?
Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £23.00 Concession £19.00 - Elena Ferrante Course start date: Fri 27 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Elena Ferrante is the author of the Neapolitan novel series, whose global success has established her as one of the most powerful voices of contemporary world literature. Her identity, however, is still one of the greatest mysteries in modern literature. In this workshop we will explore why the novels have attracted such interest and passion and we will look at the various hypotheses advanced in the Italian and foreign press as to her real identity.
Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - French 3 upper: taster Course start date: Tue 1 Jul 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Stephanie RadetCome and discover what an upper intermediate French class feels like.
This course is suitable if you have studied French for 4-5 years recently or have done an A-level some time ago.Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - French 2 upper: tasterCourse start date: Tue 1 Jul 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Valerie JézéquelCome and discover what a lower intermediate French class feels like.
This course is suitable if you have studied French for 2-3 years recently or have done a GCSE some time ago.Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - German for opera lovers (intermediate and advanced) Course start date: Wed 2 Jul 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Katja ParmarThis is an intermediate to advanced German language course for lovers of German operas. Choose either an in-person course in the heart of London or live online sessions.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00
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