Festival of Ideas

In the run up to Brighton Festival, students from the School of Media Arts and Humanities hosted a week of Festival of Ideas events, exclusively for staff and students on campus.

African Storytelling Fiesta: A journey into African Knowledges. Left photo: Bash Amuneni, one of Africa’s foremost performance poets. Right photo: Panel, led by Chevening Scholar and writer Namse Udosen.
African Storytelling Fiesta: A journey into African Knowledges. Left photo: Student Similoluwa Adefioye, MA in International Education & Development, delivers her first poetry performance in the UK. Right photo: African drumming.
Curating Conflict: curator talk & exhibition in library. Left photo: Student Madeleine Woodhouse, MA Art History and Museum Curating, introduces their event. Right photo: Dr Aleema Gray gives a talk on the exigencies of curating exhibitions.
Curating Conflict: curator talk & exhibition in library.
Do Your Own Thing: A Conversation with artist Richard Phoenix.
Letterpress Masterclass & Publication Launch. Left photo: Printer Richard Lawrence delivering a letterpress masterclass. Right photo: Student Harriet Rose, BA English, event organiser.
Letterpress Masterclass & Publication Launch
A roundtable on the post-truth rhetoric of the Covid-19 pandemic. Left photo: Panel of experts from the fields of Media, Politics, English, and Medicine. Right photo: Event organiser, student David Russell, PhD candidate in English, sits to the left of the pannel. Photo credit: Chenying Cannell