ON TUESDAY 26 March, Jack Zipes, Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota and founding father of the academic discipline of Fairy Tale studies, will give a lecture at the University of Chichester. He’ll be preceded by talks by children’s literature expert Nick Tucker and by Jacqueline Simpson, Visiting Professor of Folklore at the University of Chichester. This fairy tale symposium will run as follows
3 p.m.
Jacqueline Simpson:
‘Terry Pratchett: Tiffany Aching and the Wee Free Men’
4.15 p.m.
Nicholas Tucker: ‘Grimm Parents’
6 p.m.
Jack Zipes: ‘Once Upon a Time: Changing the World through Storytelling’.
Tuesday 26 March
Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester,
College Lane, Chichester PO19 6PE
More details to follow; if you have any queries please contact Heather Robbins at h.robbins@chi.ac.uk