lectures for peace 2024
At Literature Cambridge we have a regular lecture to support refugee charities. This year we also want to do something to help the people of Gaza and to support those working for peace.
We are offering two lectures in June 2024. All proceeds will be shared equally between three charities:
• Oxfam Gaza
• Standing Together (Palestinian and Israeli joint peace campaign)
• Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group (group helping refugees in the UK)
Women in To the Lighthouse (1927) with Trudi Tate
This lecture looks at women in Woolf’s great novel, with a focus on the main characters, Mrs Ramsay and Lily. Woolf has a rich sense of the many differences between women, and of the complexities of women’s relationships with one another.
Mrs Ramsay and Lily represent very different ways of being a woman in the early twentieth century. Mrs Ramsay is a Victorian; Lily is striving to be a modern woman. What do these positions mean; and what do they cost? Both women are creative in their different ways; how does Woolf think about creativity in this period? The book is set in the years surrounding the First World War, a time of great change for both women and men.
All proceeds will be shared equally between the charities above, to contribute in some small way to those who work for peace today.
Saturday 22 June 2024
6.00-8.00 pm British Summer Time
7.00-9.00 pm Central European Summer Time
Morning / lunchtime in the Americas
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924) with Karina Jakubowicz
This lecture explores one of Forster’s greatest novels in its centenary year.
E. M. Forster, along with other members of the Bloomsbury group and many other people in the early 20th century, could see that the European empires were based on injustice and, to a large extent, sustained through oppression and violence.
A Passage to India explores something of the relations between the Indian and English characters, and the many obstacles to understanding, and to freedom.
All proceeds will be shared equally between the charities above, to contribute in some small way to those who work for peace today.
Sunday 30 June 2024
10.00 am to 12.00 noon British Summer Time
11.00 am to 1.00 pm Central European Summer Time
Afternoon/ evening in Japan and Australia