Latest Humanitas visiting professors announced

Leading figures in the arts world will speak in Oxford as Humanitas Visiting Professors this term.

Over the next two months, lectures, workshops and symposiums will be given by Visiting Professors in Interfaith Studies, Comparative European Literature, Contemporary Art, Museums, Galleries & Libraries, Historiography, Classical Music and Music Education, and Opera Studies.

Poet Don Paterson will give his first lecture as Visiting Professor of Comparative European Literature at St Anne's College at 5.30pm this evening, while Professor Abdou Filali-Ansary will talk about 'Liberal Islam' at Lady Margaret Hall at 5pm today as Visiting Professor of Interfaith Studies.

Other highlights of the term include a lecture and symposium by world-renowned pianist Imogen Cooper on 13 and 14 May, and a discussion of 'experience versus numbers' in museums by artist William Kentridge on 6 May.

Humanitas Visiting Professors are some of the most prominent figures in their respective fields - just last week British film director Michael Winterbottom gave a public lecture and a workshop in his role as Humanitas Visiting Professor of Film and Television - just days after the release of his latest film, The Look of Love.

The full programme can be found here. All events are free and open to all, although registration is required on the website.

Humanitas is a series of Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge intended to bring leading practitioners and scholars to both universities to address major themes in the arts, social sciences and humanities.

Created by Lord Weidenfeld, the Programme is managed and funded by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue with the support of a series of generous benefactors and administered by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities in Oxford.

Top image: Imogen Cooper; Bottom image: Don Paterson