The launch party for Volume 2, Issue 1 of theORB, sponsored by Prospect magazine, will be taking place this week in Brasenose College at 8pm Thursday 23rd November.
“You can pick up a copy of the magazine, hear a talk by celebrity academic John Mullan, and enjoy free wine and refreshments. Click the header image above for more details.”
MSt tutor Jenny Lewis will be reading with Adnan al-Sayegh, Peter J. King, Jude Cowan Montague, Chinta Kallie, Ruba Abughaida and Jenyth Worsley at the Armistice Day Requiem and Poetry Reading at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore, from 7.30-9.30pm on Saturday 11 November to remember all victims of war, spoken in several languages. The event will feature a new requiem based on Wilfred Owen’s poem, ‘Futility’, composed by Janet Davies. .
“Books Saved Him, So Now He’s Building His 500th Library: Quintin Pastrana’s Library Renewal Partnership bets on libraries as a way to save Filipino communities.”
from the article:
“For Barangay 105, Tondo, it started with a small space. Around 30 square meters, which—by the standards of a Metro Manila slum that’s so densely populated that it could not be relocated to Bulacan or Laguna—is not very small at all. In 2014, neighboring slumlords began encroaching on this precious empty parcel, and were just about to claim it for themselves before Remy Cabello, a local volunteer teacher, reached out to Quintin Pastrana for help. She told him that if she could not convince the slumlords that she could build a classroom with a library there, they would take it away.
“We had two weeks before they decided to close that place down,” says Pastrana, the founder of the Library Renewal Partnership, a coalition that builds libraries for literacy and community empowerment. “So we had a text brigade going on, emails, Facebook shoutouts—it was Christmas, anyway.”
Endeavours of the Mind
Peter Moore
Mawby Room, Kellogg College,
62 Banbury Road
5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm
All are welcome and no bookings are necessary
Peter Moore is a writer, historian and critic. His debut Damn His Blood was published by Chatto & Windus in 2012 and was chosen as a Radio 4 Book of the Week. His second book, The Weather Experiment, was a Sunday Times Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2015 and was adapted by BBC 4 for a three-part television documentary. He reviews regularly for The Literary Review and has been a writer in residence at Gladstone’s Library in Flintshire. In 2016 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship for his third book, Endeavour, which will be published in 2018.
Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan
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