Event Date: 13 June 2016 Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way London NW1 2HD The Royal Asiatic Society presents: BOOK LAUNCH Professor Konrad Hirschler (SOAS) – Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library The written text was a pervasive feature of cultural practices in the medieval Middle East. At the heart of book circulation stood libraries …
David Anderson – Terrorism and Tolerance
Event Date: 13 June 2016 Windsor Auditorium Royal Holloway, University of London Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX Royal Holloway University of London presents: The 2016 Magna Carta Lecture David Anderson QC (Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation) – Terrorism and Tolerance: UK’s independent ‘terror watchdog’ asks how we reconcile traditional freedoms with prevention of terrorism In Terrorism and Tolerance, David Anderson will …
Clive Scott – Imagining a Philosophy of Literary Translation
Event Date: 13 June 2016 ALT1 Arts Building Royal Holloway, University of London Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX The School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Royal Holloway, University of London presents: Keynote Lecture at the 2016 Postgraduate Colloquium Professor Clive Scott (Professor Emeritus, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing University of East Anglia) – Imagining a Philosophy of …