Event: Campus Book Festival 2021
Date: 24 - 26 March 2021
Venue: Online
The National Book Council has published the Events Programme of the upcoming Campus Book Festival 2021, to be held virtually between 24 - 26 March 2021.
The programme, which was put together in collaboration with several University of Malta Departments, student organisations and local publishers, was curated for the festival’s regular audience of university students and also the wider public.
The international guest for this year’s Campus Book Festival is American poet and memoirist Mark Doty, who will be participating in a with University students lead by Dr Mario Aquilina and centred on his memoir Firebird on Thursday 25 March. He will be returning on Friday 26 March for an with Head of the Department of English, Prof. James Corby.
The Festival will this year again be serving as a platform for the launch of new literary titles, translated literature and works of nonfiction. In an interview with journalist Kurt Sansone on 25 March, SKS will be launching the second volume of memoirs by Dr Alfred Sant, .
In an interview with fellow author Simone Inguanez, prize-winning author Stephen Lughermo will be speaking about his published by Horizons, Ċelel Bla Ħitan, featuring a set of constrained characters. On 24 March, Horizons are also launching , translated into Maltese by Charles Flores, who will be discussing the Booker Prize-shortlisted novel and winner of the 1998 Whitbread Novel Award with academic and broadcaster Toni Sant. In the realm of the new Maltese languages translations, Faraxa Publishing will be launching their latest title in the ‘Traduzzjonijiet Faraxa’ translation series - . Prof. Aquilina’s talk on 24 March will be accompanied by two performances by Clive and Claire Piscopo from Theatre Lab Malta.
A number of events feature collaborations between local publishers and students organisations on campus. Among them, the launch of . Cristina Aquilina from the European Law Student’s Association (ELSA) will be interviewing the author of this collection of leading cases in Maltese administrative law, covering a period of more than a hundred years, during which the Maltese Courts reviewed acts of the Administration. BDL Books is also presenting a discussion on legal administrative remedies, presenting Dr Ivan Mifsud’s monograph , in a discussion on the Ombudsman’s role in Malta, and this institution’s track record and effectiveness in an interview with Dr Robert Musumeci.
The History of Art and Fine Art Students’ Association (HOASA), together with Midsea Books, is presenting on his latest publication Mattia Preti: Life and Works (2020), shedding new light on the life and works of the High Baroque artist who left an artistic imprint on the island like no other had done before or indeed after. To discuss on the history, art and cult of the iconic statue, Senglea’s Redentur, on March 26 the book’s editor Dr Jonathan Farrugia will be joined by the conservator responsible for the conservation of the statue, Valentina Lupo from Atelier del Restauro.
In collaboration with the Department of Philosophy, on 25 March the Festival will be hosting an exchange moderated by Dr Jean-Paul De Lucca between Francois Zammit and Dr Enrico Panai, Human ¸£ÀûÔÚÏßÃâ·Ñ Interaction Specialist and author of Skip! The Art of Avoiding Projects. The discussion will address questions relating to , be it the apparently simple technology of writing or the complexities of emerging technologies.
Frequent collaborators of the Campus Book Festival Għaqda tal-Malti - Università will also be addressing the application of digital technologies on 24 March in a discussion between Head of Department Dr Michael Spagnol and Sephora Francalanza, introducing the of the Department of Maltese at the University of Malta: . On the occasion of of the first publication of its longstanding journal Leħen il-Malti, Għaqda tal-Malti will be bringing together speakers who had an active role in former editorial boards, including Leanne Ellul, Joseph P. Borg and Ä orÄ¡ Mallia, ahead of the publication of the 40th edition later this year.
All Campus Book Festival events will be streaming for free on the National Book Council’s website and Facebook page between 24 - 26 March 2021.
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