1 June 2020
In continuation with our Webinar Series, Kent’s European Centres are holding some online discussions centered around the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Date: Monday 1 June
Time: 15h in Paris
Title: Literature, Life and Lockdown: How the Humanities can help the Species Survive
Lockdown means different things to different people, but one thing it has meant to all of us is more time with ourselves. How can the Humanities help us reflect on our grave new world? What lessons can we learn from the past as we look to a future beyond lockdown? What can culture teach us about quarantine?
Drawing on examples from the history of literature, philosophy, and cinema, scholars from the University of Kent’s Division of Arts and Humanities will discuss the value of thought in the age of confinement. If the UK’s government’s advice is to ‘stay alert’, perhaps the Arts can help teach us what this means.
The discussion will be hosted by Professor Jeremy Carrette, Dean for Europe and Professor of Philosophy, Religion and Culture.
Panellists:
- Professor Ben Hutchinson, Professor of European Literature and Academic Director of Kent’s Paris School of Arts and Culture
- Dr Frances Guerin, Senior Lecturer in History of Art and Deputy Director of Graduate Studies of Paris programmes at Kent’s School of Arts
- Dr Lauren Ware, Lecturer in Philosophy at Kent’s School of European Culture and Languages
Please register by clicking here
Look out for other Interdisciplinary Intervention webinars:
- Whatever Happened to Brexit? Europe after COVID-19 (past event recording, 7 May 2020)
- Pandemic and Politics: COVID-19, Global Crisis and the Challenge to Humanity (past event recording, 14 May 2020)
- Webinar in collaboration with the University of Oslo (Monday 11 June 2020, more information coming soon)