Aberystwyth academics to star at Hay Festival
Some of Aberystwyth University’s world-leading research will be showcased at one of the world's biggest literary festivals which gets underway later this week. Six internationally recognised Aberystwyth academics and two Honorary Fellows will be speaking at this year’s Hay Festival which runs from 23 May to 2 June. Last year’s festival attracted more than 225,000 visitors. Thursday 23 May at Landmarc 100 Stage at 7pm Professor Richard Marggraf Turley, Dr Jayne Elisabeth Archer and Professor Howard Thomas , all from Aberystwyth University, will deliver the 2013 INSPIRE Lecture on Literature and Sustainability as winners of a competition set up by the Institute for Sustainable Practice Innovation and Resource Effectiveness at University of Wales Trinity Saint David , supported by ASLE-UKI. The paper explores how key Shakespeare plays engage with a crisis of food supply, distribution and sustenance – a crisis with contemporary resonances and one in which, through his business deal...