Postponed
This event was initially planned to take place as part of Durham Book Festival in October 2020.
We are currently working to reschedule events for 2021, with this event marking the end of the Biscuit Tin's voyage.
Rachael Wiseman & Clare Mac Cumhaill
Philosophers
Kayombo Chingonyi
Poet
After its world voyage the Biscuit Tin will return to the Midgley Archive at Durham University. This event will include the final commissioned poem written by Kayombo Chingonyi. More details to follow.
Rachael Wiseman & Clare Mac Cumhaill, In Parenthesis
Rachael and Clare are co-directors of In Parenthesis, a research collaboration that looks at the lives and philosophy of Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, G.E.M Anscombe and Philippa Foot - a.k.a. The Quartet. To grips with the staggering complexity, depth and volume of the Quartet's work they rely on the expertise, generosity, and time of numerous friends, researchers, students, archivists and other sorts of experts and enthusiasts. Join them and friends of In Parenthesis to celebrate the biscuit tin's homecoming.
Theme
The Domestic
Reading
Women’s Choices
Midgley, M. and Hughes, J. (1983)
London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited, p.167-84