20 Jan 12 | Events
Date: 14 March
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX
Tickets: £15, £12 – book here
In the first of a series of events between Index on Censorship and the Southbank Centre, South African novelist Nadine Gordimer will be speaking at the centre’s Literature and Spoken Word Festival on 14 March.
The 88-year-old writer, renowned for her activism, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. She published her first novel in 1953, and has since gone on to publish short stories, plays and criticism in over 40 books, including The Conservationist, which won the Booker Prize in 1974. Gordimer’s latest novel, published to coincide with the event, is No Time Like the Present.
The festival will run from January to March. Tickets can be booked online here.
16 Jan 12 | Events
Date: 27 February
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Free Word Centre, London
Index on Censorship and the Institute for Human Rights and Business invite you to attend the launch of Rebecca MacKinnon’s new book, Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom.
Rebecca MacKinnonis the co-founder of Global Voices Online. In her new book she argues that a global struggle for control of the Internet is now underway. At stake are no less than civil liberties, privacy and even the character of democracy in the 21st century. Join us for a discussion with the author, along with writer and journalist Salil Tripathi. Chaired by Jo Glanville, Editor of Index on Censorship, followed by a drinks reception.
Register to attend: [email protected]
11 Mar 10 | Events
Sunday 21st March, 12pm, Christ Church Marquee, Oxford
George Orwell was a staunch proponent of freedom of all kinds, especially of speech and of the press. But with criticisms of the media flourishing, preachers of hate making headlines, the anonymity of the internet, and journalists complaining about libel laws – how free is free speech, and what should the limits be?
Panelists include
- Catherine Bennett (The Observer, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism 2009)
- John Kampfner (Chief executive director of Index on Censorship, author of Freedom for Sale)
- Geoffrey Robertson QC (lawyer, broadcaster, author)
Chaired by Albert Scardino Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former Orwell Prize judge.
Book here
