LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival:Relating Cultures in 2012
What? The LSE Space for Thought series was created to celebrate the completion of the New Academic Building at LSE, which was officially opened by Her Majesty The Queen on 5 November 2008. These celebrations included an inaugural lecture series, with some of the world's leading academics, and has morphed into an ongoing Literary Festival each Feb/March.
When? Feb 29 - March 3, 2012
Who? 2012 Jane Davies, Tim Joss, David McDaid, Margaret Perkins, Jeanette Winterson, Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Professor Pedro Ferreira,Professor Elaine Fox, Charlie Beckett, Heather Brooke, Nick Cohen, AS Byatt, Robert Irwin, Professor Lord Desai, Professor Anatol Lieven,Kamila Shamsie
TBA Programme online in December 2011.
Where? The London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London,
WC2A 2AE, The festival forms part of the celebrations surrounding the completion of LSE's New Academic Building on Lincoln's Inn Fields. The events will take place in the new building designed by Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners – the award winning architects for the Eden project.| See transport details below
Festival Website? www.lse.ac.uk/spaceforthought
Past Festivals? Ken McLeod, Andrew Motion, Elif Shafak, Steve Bell, Lionel Shriver, Professor Timothy Garton Ash, Blake Morrison, Senay Ozdemir, Jill McGivering, Abdulrazak Gurnah
How much? This event is free to attend but you still neeed a ticket. www.lse.ac.uk/spaceforthought or the ticket request line 020 7955 6100.
Programme? Download 2011 programme as pdf . Tickets will be available to request online from Monday 31 January
Buses
Buses
that stop on or near
the Aldwych are numbers:
1, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 23, 26,
59, 68, x68, 76, 87, 91, 139,
168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 243,
341 and 521
Parking
NCP, Parker St (off Drury Lane)
WC2
Other than parking meters on
Portugal Street, Sardinia Street,
Sheffield Street and Lincoln’s
Inn Fields there is no parking
available near the School.
The London School of
Economics and Political
Science, Houghton Street,
London,
WC2A 2AE
Past Festivals? Dan Cruickshank, Giles Foden, Susie Orbach, Mark Lawson, Lionel Shriver, Ben Okri, Colin Thubron and A S Byatt; an afternoon of events for children; a morning of creative writing workshops; and a collective recitation of the Declaration of Human Rights with artist Monica Ross.
How to get there
Underground
Holborn (Central/Piccadilly)
Temple (District/Circle)
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