About the seminar
Staff and researchers in the humanities are warmly invited to a seminar on the British critic and novelist John Berger (1926-2017) by the visiting speaker Dr. Stephen Kelly from Queen’s University Belfast.
John Berger (1926-2017) was an English essayist, art critic and novelist who reached a wide audience with the BBC documentary series Ways of Seeing and his Booker Prize-winning novel G. (1972). His final publications include the collections Portraits (2015), Confabulations (2016) and Landscapes (2016).
Dr Stephen Kelly is Senior Lecturer and former subject lead in English at Queen’s University Belfast. He is currently heading the major Leverhulme Trust-funded research project Whittington’s Gift: Reconstructing the Lost Common Library of London’s Guildhall.
This event is supported by Anders Jahres fond.
The seminar will be followed by discussion and refreshments.
Registration
Those planning to attend should register by emailing the organizer Stuart McWilliams at their earliest convenience.