Event title:

Reading Group - 'Northern Lights (1995), Phillip Pullman'

Event details

Event details

Date:
Saturday, 12th May 2018
Time:
14:00 - 16:00
Location:
BJL Teaching Room 3 - Ground Floor
Campus:
Hull Campus
Categories:
  Emerging Thinkers Reading Group  

Event description

Event description

Northern Lights (1995), Phillip Pullman

Saturday 12 May 2018

Brynmor Jones Library, Teaching Room 3

2pm – 4pm

Speaker: Dr Janine Hatter, University of Hull.  

Northern Lights was a highly requested novel for discussion. We can certainly see why people want to discuss Pullman’s engrossing yet complex fantasy novel!  We’re very much looking forward to Dr Janine Hatter explaining some of the more complicated themes from the later books in the series in the second half of the session, but in the first half we’re focusing tightly on the first book. We may even make it to sharing some thoughts on The Book of Dust!

Free Admission - All welcome – Booking is required.  

Jackie McAndrew, Email: opencampus@hull.ac.uk

Telephone: 01482 466585

 

Background

If you like reading and enjoy discussing books with other people, then this is the group for you. Sessions take place on campus within the fabulous Brynmor Jones Library where there is a Café and the fantastic University of Hull Art Collection.    

The sessions are facilitated by either an English or Creative Writing PhD student, a post-doctoral researcher, a member of  staff or a guest host from our regular OpenCampus attendees.  You don’t need to have been before but it does help if you have a love of literature and you like the idea of meeting with a friendly group of similarly minded people.  Oh yes - it does help to have read the book too!

It’s also a great opportunity to give our PhD students (or 'emerging thinkers' as we like to see them)  the opportunity develop their public engagement, facilitation and teaching skills!  It really is a winning initiative all ways round.  

Broad Aims of the Group

The broad aims of this reading group are to:

  • Provide an open platform for the discussion of literature.
  • Encourage an interest in a range of genres.
  • Provide the opportunity to open up the dialogue with members of the public encouraging interesting, topical, and informative discussion. 
  • Provide our 'emerging thinkers' the chance to develop their public engagement, facilitation and teaching skills!

All the books should be available to buy cheaply on-line for a minimal amount if you can’t find your old school copy!

Anyone can come along, no prior experience is necessary, just an enthusiasm for the subject.

How will it work?
  • All attendees should read the novel in advance of the session.
  • Each session would be led by one of our PhD/Postgraduate Research  students/guest speakers.
  • There will be a brief introduction to the text (15 - 30 minutes) which would be accompanied by a PowerPoint/hand-out as appropriate.
  • We will have a selection of questions ready to get the ball rolling as it were, and will be highlighting key themes/sections of the text of particular interest.
  • You may get the opportunity to discuss revisions and adaptations of the selected narratives to try and pinpoint the reasons behind the longevity of these texts.

Telephone: 01482 466585

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