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Tuesday March 2014 tueSDay 25 MaRCh 2014 Claudia Roden Philip Davis talks to Donald Sloan e Food of Italy e Literary agenda: Reading and the Reader 10am / Corpus Christi College / £11 10am / Bodleian: Divinity School / £11 World-renowned cookery writer Editor and academic Professor Philip Davis defends the Claudia Roden talks to the head value of reading serious literature and argues that of Oxford Gastronomica Donald Italian Day literary thinking should be brought into the ordinary Sloan about her freshly updated thinking of the world, particularly at a time when the classic work, The Food of Italy. It is arts and humanities are under threat. Reading and the 25 years since the first publication of the book and, Reader is one of an Oxford University Press series of while many of the recipes remain fresh and timeless, short polemical monographs about the importance of Roden has updated more than 30 per cent to fit literature and of reading in the wider world and about modern tastes and included some new ones. For the the state of literary education inside schools and first time, the book is fully illustrated and includes universities. photos of recipes and of local Italian scenes. Davis is a professor of English literature, editor of The Roden was born and brought up in Cairo. Her Reader magazine and director of the Centre for bestselling A Book of Middle Eastern Food revolutionised Research into Reading (CRILS) at the University of attitudes to the cuisine of the Middle East when it was Liverpool. He has published widely on Shakespeare, published in 1968. Her work has always been Samuel Johnson, the Victorians, Bernard Malamud, and characterised by a particular interest in the social and on reading itself. historical background to the food she is writing about Poet David Constantine will talk about his work, and has received great critical acclaim. Other works Poetry , in the same series at another festival event. include Mediterranean Cookery with Claudia Roden and The Food of Spain . Roden is winner of many awards, Philip Davis including six Glenfiddich awards, two Andre Simon awards, four World Gourmand awards, the James Beard Best Cookbook of the Year award in the USA, and the National Jewish Book Award in the USA. Sloan is head of the Oxford School of Hospitality Management at Oxford Brookes University and chair of Oxford Gastronomica, a specialist centre for the study of food, drink and culture, that works to enhance our relationship with food and drink, and to celebrate their place in our lives. P This event is part of the Italian Day . h o t o Bodleian Libraries : R UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Claudia Roden e d Festival Cultural Partner S a u n d e r s Presented by Sponsored by Festival London Hotel Partner 82 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 25 WOMEN IN SOCIETY T tracy Borman 415 Polly Coles U E S D A Witches: a tale of Sorcery, Scandal e Politics of Washing: Y and Seduction Real Life in Venice M A 10am / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 10am / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 R Historian Tracy Borman traces the dramatic events at Polly Coles peels back the C Belvoir Castle in the 17th century when one of tourist facade and looks at the H Britain’s great noble families was stricken with a real Venice. She examines Venice Italian Day 2 mystery – and in some cases fatal – illness, blamed on from the point of view of its 0 1 witches. The case was one of those that became part dwindling population and asks 4 of the European witch craze between the 15th and whether there is a future for this unique community 18th centuries. Suspected witches were burned, away from the museums and the palaces. She finds a hanged or tortured. The case of the Earl of Rutland was tale both of noble families and of long-time Venetians typical in many ways but, as Borman reveals, there was who can no longer afford to live in their city. much more to it, including a conspiracy masterminded Coles writes fiction and about art and abridges for BBC by a Machiavellian figure at the Jacobean court that Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime and Book of the Week. She has remained hidden for centuries. was closely involved in the recording of the complete Borman is author of several highly acclaimed books Arkangel Shakespeare for Pacificus Productions and, including Matilda: Queen of the Conqueror and most recently, has written texts to accompany two Elizabeth’s Women . She is chief executive of the exhibitions at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford. Heritage Education Trust and interim chief curator of She divides her time between Italy and England. Historic Royal Palaces. This event is part of the Italian Day . Tracy Borman P Polly Coles h o t o : L a u r i e L e w i s Sponsored by 83 tueSDay 25 MaRCh 2014 tim Parks Christopher Duggan Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails Fascist Voices: an Intimate history from Milan to Palermo of Mussolini’s Italy 12 noon / Corpus Christi College / £11 12 noon / Bodleian: Divinity School / £11 Bestselling travel writer and Historian Professor Christopher award-winning novelist Tim Duggan talks about his Wolfson- Parks returns to the subject of Italian Day Prize-winning Fascist Voices: An Italian Day his adopted homeland with a Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy. fresh portrait of Italy through a Duggan explores how the Italian witty account of its train system. Parks uses his 30 fascist movement became embodied in Benito years’ experience of travelling on the Italian system, Mussolini, who attained an almost divine status in whether a daily commute from Verona to Milan, his many Italian’s eyes. He makes use of rarely examined regular trips to Florence and Rome, or his occasional sources to show how the ordinary Italian experienced forays to Naples and Sicily, to reveal what he terms the fascism on a daily basis, and how it influenced their ‘charmingly irritating dystopian paradise of Italy’. beliefs, language and lifestyle. Why did fascism enjoy so much support and why does the ‘cult of the Duce’ Parks has lived in Italy since 1981. His accounts of life still resonate in modern Italy? in Northern Italy, Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and A Season with Verona, were all Duggan is professor of Italian history at the University bestsellers. He has also written more than a dozen of Reading. He has written several books on modern novels and other works of non-fiction and has won Italian history. Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask and Llewellyn Rhys This event is part of the Italian Day . awards His novel, Europa , was shortlisted for the Booker. Christopher Duggan This event is part of the Italian Day . P Tim Parks h o t o : B a s s o C a n n a r s a In association with Bodleian Libraries FELICITY BRYAN UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD ASSOCIATES Festival Cultural Partner 84 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 25 T Jamie Davies U E S It never felt D A Life unfolding: how the human Y Body Creates Itself like I was at school, M A 12 noon / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 and yet I learnt R Professor Jamie Davies uses cutting-edge science to C explain one of life’s deepest mysteries: how can a H complex human body organize itself from a simple everything here... 2 fertilized egg? Why do we have two arms but one 0 1 head? How come the left leg is the same size as the Tom Hiddleston, Old Dragon & Actor 4 right? And why are the fingerprints of identical twins not identical? Davies argues that a convergence of ideas from embryology, genetics, physics, networks, and control theory is beginning to provide the real Summer Open Morning 17 May 2014 answers. Co-educational, boarding and day Davies is professor of experimental anatomy at the prep school, 4 to 13 years University of Edinburgh. He runs a laboratory that focuses on how the organs of mammals construct themselves and how that knowledge can be used in medicine. Dragon School, Oxford [email protected] Jamie Davies www.dragonschool.org CULTURAL TOURS & MUSIC HOLIDAYS for discerning travellers Kirker Holidays has created a range of carefully crafted escorted itineraries for those with an Sponsored by interest in Art, History, Architecture, Archaeology, Gardens and Music. Tours typically consist of between 12 and 22 like-minded travellers in the company of an expert tour lecturer. Ask for a copy of our 2014 Cultural Tours & Music Holidays brochure. Speak to an expert : 020 7593 2284 quote code GXOL www.kirkerholidays.com 85 tueSDay 25 MaRCh 2014 LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME John Curtis tim Robson e Cyrus Cylinder and ancient Showing up: Making a Greater Persia Impact in the Work you Do 12 noon / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 12 noon / Christ Church: Festival Room 1 / £11 The Cyrus Cylinder is one of the most famous objects Management consultant Tim Robson says do not just to have survived the ancient world and has become a live for the weekend, enjoy your job, be enthusiastic symbol of respect and tolerance for different peoples about it and really show up. Robson explains how to and different faiths. It was inscribed in Babylonian show up with enthusiasm to make a difference at work cuneiform at the behest of Persian King Cyrus in the and inspire those working with you to do the same. He sixth century BC and is often referred to as the first bill offers advice on how to engage at work and encourage of human rights.
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