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Maggie O’ Sullivan is an internationally renowned poet, performer and visual artist, whose books include In the House of the Shaman (1996), red shifts (2001), Palace of Reptiles (2003), all origins are lonely (2003) and Body of Work (2006). The Salt Companion to Maggie O’Sullivan (2011) collects essays by contemporaries on her work.

David Dunn, a pioneer in the fields of acoustic ecology, bioacoustics, interspecies communication, and scientific sonification, has composed a body of experimental musical work that investigates the ultrasonic world beyond human hearing:The Sound of Light in Trees (2006), The Lion in Which the Spirits of the Royal Ancestors Make Their Home (1995), Angels and Insects (1992).

Feel free to bring your bag lunch. Free and open to the public.

Andrew Dickson, Guardian Theatre Editor

‘Deutschland ist Hamlet’:

Germany’s Shakespeare

Andrew Dickson Guardian Theatre Editor 

When the poet Friedrich Freilingrath claimed in 1844 that “Germany is Hamlet”, it was more than a lament for his country’s political indecision – it hinted at the eerily vivid presence Shakespeare has in German political and literary culture. Germany is not only home to the world’s most august Shakespeare society, the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft; it also stages more professional Shakespeare than any other country in the world, the UK included. This lecture follows a journey from Gdásnk in Poland (formerly Danzig), where English actors were perhaps the first to take Shakespeare’s work abroad during his lifetime, to Weimar, the centre of Germany’s romantic literary cult. It also touches on the sometimes troubling relationship between Shakespeare and German politics, which came to a head during the Third Reich.

Part of the ‘Worlds Elsewhere’ Lecture Tour

All staff and students welcome

Wine reception to follow

David Fearn: 'I am clasping the hallowed knees of Aiakos' (Pindar, Nemean 8.13-14): Encountering a hero in choral lyric, art, and ritual.

James Wright: 'Forms of the Laocoon in the works of William Etty'

Klimt (Raoul Ruiz; with John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres; Austria/France/Germany/UK; 2006; 131 mins.)