Kent experts will explore ‘How the humanities can help the Species Survive’ through a free-to-view webinar on Monday 1 June at 2pm (UK time).
Organised by its European Centres and presented via Zoom, the webinar will feature panellists Ben Hutchinson, Professor of European Literature and Academic Director of Kent’s Paris School of Arts and Culture, Dr Frances Guerin, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of Graduate Studies of Paris programmes at Kent’s School of Arts, and Dr Lauren Ware, Lecturer in Philosophy at Kent’s School of European Culture and Languages.
It will be hosted by Professor Jeremy Carrette, Dean for Europe and Professor of Philosophy, Religion and Culture at Kent.
Attendees are encouraged to ask questions of the panellists during the discussion.
Among the questions the panellists will address are: 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; and what can culture teach us about quarantine?
Drawing on examples from the history of literature, philosophy and cinema, they will also discuss the value of thought in the age of confinement and, following the UK’s government’s advice to ‘stay alert’, if and how the Arts can help us understand what this means.
To register for ‘Literature, Life and Lockdown: How the humanities can help the Species Survive’ please click here.