Birmingham Book Festival
Professor A C Grayling - The Good Reader and The World
- When:
- 23.10.2008 18.30 h - 20.00 h
- Where:
- Birmingham Conservatoire - Birmingham
- Category:
- Non-Fiction
- TICKET:
- £5 (£4)
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To mark the National Year of Reading,we are delighted to welcome back to the Festival distinguished writer and philosopher, Professor A C Grayling. Professor Grayling will be responding to our current concern with reading culture. He will look particularly at reading as a critical, challenging and subversive process. The lecture will be followed by a discussion.
Anthony Grayling MA, DPhil (Oxon) FRSL, FRSA is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. He has written and edited many books on philosophy and other subjects; his most recent being Towards the Light - The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West.
He is a frequent broadcaster on BBC Radio 3, 4 and World Service, a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and a member of its C-100 group on relations between the West and the Islamic world.
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