Programme of Speakers for the 2020/2021 season
All lectures take place in Keynes College Senior Common Room, at the University of Kent, at 7.30pm promptly
Guest Fee for non members attending lectures is
£3.00
2020
N.B. Please note that the autumn lectures have been cancelled due to the Corona Virus Pandemic. We expect to resume our 2021 programme on condition that restrictions in force at the time will allow us to do so.
2021
Thursday 28 January: Professor John Foot (University of Bristol)
"Calcio": The amazing (and sometimes
scandalous)story of Italian Football.
Sunday 07 February: “Festa della Befana” – Lunch for members and friends at Pinocchio’s Restaurant
64 Castle Street, Canterbury CT1 2PY 12 noon for 12:30.
Thursday 25 February: Michael Starks (SeniorMember of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University)
“Understanding Ravenna" - A special look at that
renowned site of artistic glory, designed and decorated against a
tide of invasion, regime change and conflict
Thursday 25 March: Andrea del Cornò (Italian specialist, The London Library)
“The Free Italian School of Hatton
Garden” A school set up by Giuseppe
Mazzini in 1841 for the impoverished Italian children of Victorian
London.
April Break (Easter
Sunday is 4thApril)
Thursday 27 May: Ross King (Writer & Art historian)
“Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling" –
The story of four extraordinary years that Michelangelo spent on
the Sistine scaffolding and, outside, the upheaval of 16th century
Rome.
Thursday 24 June: “Summer Garden Party” (Bring & Share) at 7.30pm.
Kindly hosted by
Antoinette & John Groom at their home at: 8 Cherry Avenue, Canterbury CT2 8EN
