Under the Rainbow: Voices from Lockdown

TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big
Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one
of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre
for the Humanities. Under the Rainbow: Voices from Lockdown will
feature the author James Attlee in discussion with Marina Warner
and Professor Pablo Mukherjee (Warwick University). Chaired by
Professor Wes Williams, TORCH Director. This event is also in
collaboration with Blackwell's of Oxford. Blackwell's of Oxford has
been selling books on Broad Street for over 140 years making it
Oxford's oldest bookshop. With over five miles of books in the
Broad Street flagship, Blackwell's booksellers' passion for the
putting right book into the right reader's hands is undiminished
after over a century. Under the Rainbow: Voices from Lockdown is
for sale at Blackwell's Bookshop on Broad Street. Call 01865 792792
for a copy signed by James Attlee and if you live within the Oxford
ring road, Blackwell's will deliver it to you by bike.
Alternatively, you can place an order online at Blackwells.co.uk.
Speaker Panel: James Attlee is the author of Under the
Rainbow:Voices from Lockdown; Isolarion: A Different Oxford
Journey; Guernica: Painting the End of the World; Station to
Station, shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the
Year 2017, and Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight, among
other titles. His digital fiction The Cartographer’s Confession won
the 2017 New Media Writing Prize. He works as an editor, lecturer
and publishing consultant and his journalism has appeared in
publications including The Independent, Tate Etc., Frieze and the
London Review of Books. Marina Warner is an acclaimed polymath: a
writer of fiction, criticism history, and mythography; her works
include novels and short stories as well as studies of art, myths,
symbols and fairytales. She has written for many publications, from
The London Review of Books, through the New Statesman, to Vogue,
and is a Distinguished Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.
Professor Pablo Mukherjee teaches on the English and Comparative
Literary Studies program at Warwick University, and is an expert on
Victorian as well as contemporary imperial/colonial and
anti-imperial/colonial cultures.