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This year we are exploring the theme Branching Out, partly in celebration of the Festival’s 5th Anniversary, traditionally marked by wood, but also in homage to the 300th anniversary of the birth of Denis Diderot, who developed the figurative system of branches of human knowledge. Key “branches” that we will explore include Narratives, Innovation, Changing World and Uniting the Branches of Knowledge. The Festival includes talks, readings, panel discussions and performances, as well as creative writing workshops and children’s events. We are proud to offer a space for thought, discussion and analysis that is unique in London, encouraging interaction between authors and academics on a global stage. We do hope you enjoy this year’s programme. Further details on all events, as well as updates to the programme, can be found at lse.ac.uk/spaceforthought Please do check the website to see the latest information about the events you wish to attend, as details can change. Louise Gaskell Literary Festival Organiser “LSE Literary Festival is a great venue where minds and imaginations, cultures and opinions meet” Best-selling author Elif Shafak at LSE Literary Festival 2012 Sponsors With thanks to Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen for supporting this event. Media Partner A partnership celebrating The New Statesman Century: 100 years of free thinking. Ticket Information All events in the Festival are free to attend and open to all. E-tickets will be available to request after 10am on Monday 4 February. For the majority of Festival events there will also be an allocation of seats available on the day of the event, offered on a first come first served basis. Full details can be found online at lse.ac.uk/spaceforthought Booksales Independent bookseller, Pages of Hackney, will be selling books for signing at the Literary Festival. Look out for other events taking place at LSE, outside the Festival, which continue exploring our Festival’s theme. Refreshments Café 54 will be open throughout the Festival, located on the ground floor of the New Academic Building. A selection of sandwiches, hot and cold wraps, soup, pasta, fresh baked pastries and cookies, coffees and cold drinks will be available. TuesdayEvents Tuesday 26 February 6.30-8pm, Wolfson Theatre Forum for European Philosophy LSE Literary Festival event Philosophy by Podcast Speakers: David Edmonds, Nigel Warburton In the 5th century BC Socrates brought philosophy to the marketplace. Can this ancient branch of learning be rejuvenated by the technology of the 21st century? David Edmonds is Senior Research Associate David Edmonds at Oxford’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Nigel Warburton is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and author of A LIttle History of Philosophy. Together they have produced Philosophy Bites Back, the second book based on the Philosophy Bites series, the hugely successful podcast that has now had 16 million downloads. Nigel Warburton 6.30-8pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre BBC World Service LSE Literary Festival event The Forum: The Challenge of Ageing Speakers: Professor Sarah Harper, P D James, Baroness Helena Kennedy, Hans Rosling The LSE and the BBC World Service present the fourth in a series of events recorded with a public audience, hosted by lawyer Helena Kennedy, with Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, Sarah Harper; award- P D James winning author P D James; and global health expert Hans Rosling. The event is part of The Forum’s unique Big Five series focusing on tackling big challenges of our age. Monday 25 February, 7pm LSE Language Centre production The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Bulgakov’s 1925 work anticipates both the unreal and sinister atmosphere of the Great Purge and the proto-magic realism of his classic Master and Margarita. LSE students present an adaptation of the satirical novella, which lampoons the emerging totalitarian system with its exposé of medical science gone mad. This event is free and open to all with no ticket required, entry on a first come, first served basis. Tuesday 26 February Tuesday WednesdayEvents Wednesday 27 February 1-2.30pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre Women’s Library @ LSE and Gender Institute Literary Festival event Women Writing History Speakers: Molly Crabapple, Professor Mary Evans, Vicky Featherstone, Kate Mosse In celebration of LSE’s acquisition of the Women’s Library, our distinguished panel will discuss the role of women in literature, the arts and academia today. Vicky Featherstone Molly Crabapple is a New York artist. Her most recent projects are Week in Hell and Shell Game. Mary Evans is LSE Centennial Professor in the Gender Institute. Vicky Featherstone is Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the National Theatre of Scotland. In April 2013 she will join the Royal Court Theatre as Artistic Director. Kate Mosse is author of books Kate Mosse including the international bestseller, Labyrinth. She is Co-Founder and Honorary Director of the Orange Prize for Fiction, now the Women’s Prize for Fiction. 5.15-6.45pm, Wolfson Theatre LSE Language Centre Literary Festival event Day Jobs and the Twilight World Speakers: Professor Christopher Andrew, Professor Lord Hennessey, Alan Judd Although the cliché of the novelist as a bohemian, solitary, garret-inhabiting individual persists, in reality the majority of novelists writing lead double-lives, holding down at least a part-time job as well. This panel will Christopher Andrew discuss the question of combining official work with the writing of fiction in the context of the Cold War and after.