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SUMMARY:Exhibition and Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch: Silence. A Literary History, (OUP 2026). Exhibitio
 n: Silences/Stille/Schweigen Book Launch with Professor Dr. Kate McLoughli
 n, Linacre College, University of Oxford: Thursday, 9 April 2026 at 6:30 p
 .m. s.t.(Doors open at 6.00 p.m.) Oxford English Literature Professor Kate
  McLoughlin looks back over 12 centuries of English literature to uncover 
 the power and possibilities of silence.Her talk ranges from exile on icy s
 eas described in Anglo Saxon poems to searches for silence in the modern a
 ge of pings. She includes blissful unions with the divine and the natural 
 world, the hushes of intimacy, literary epics of grief, the failure of wor
 ds in the face of war and silence as a form of protest. McLoughlin explore
 s the ways in which authors create silence through words, including silenc
 e in Shakespeare and the work of medieval lyricists, who expressed complex
  theological notions through lullabies.Kate McLoughlin is a professor in E
 nglish literature at the University of Oxford. Her books include Authoring
  War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq and Vetera
 n Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790–2015 and,
  as editor, The Cambridge Companion to War Writing.This event is a co-oper
 ation between the Centre for British Studies and the University of Oxford.
 ***Exhibition times: 10 - 12 April 2026 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday & Su
 nday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday.Seating in the Hörsaalruine is limite
 d.Registration is necessary at: events.gbz@hu-berlin.deBased on previous c
 ollaborations with Prof Kate McLoughlin, Dr Christina Kuhli (HU art collec
 tion) and Prof Gesa Stedman (GBZ) have co-curated an exhibition on silence
 /Stille/Schweigen, featuring works from HU's art collection, and contempor
 ary British and Berlin-based artists, including Tom Hammick (GB) and Sylee
  Gore (Berlin). An art workshop and a creative writing workshop will take 
 place on Saturday, 11 April (11am) as part of the exhibition, which will b
 e opened by Prof McLoughlin's book launch and talk (9 April). All are welc
 ome, but access is via the Charité museum which is recommended for people
  aged 16 or older.
LOCATION:Hörsaalruine, Berlin Medizinhistorisches Museum
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