PAST EVENT: Media Freedom on the Internet: a round table discussion in Strasbourg
Date: 25 April
Time: 2.30-3.30pm
Venue: Meeting Room 5, Palais d’Europe, Strasbourg
BETWEEN RESPONSIBILITY AND REALITY: HOW CAN WE GUARANTEE FREE EXPRESSION ONLINE?
As the internet becomes a central feature of everyday life, opinion is still divided on how to make it work for the common good. Should governments monitor their citizens’ lives online in the name of security? Is it acceptable for new software to have inbuilt surveillance capacities? In this new landscape, how do we protect free speech online – and who can we count on to do so?
13.00 – 13.30 Reception hosted by UK Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe in the Foyer of the Committee of Ministers Ambassador.
13.30 – 15.00 Panel discussion jointly organised by Index on Censorship and the Parliamentary Assembly Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media and the UK Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers: Between responsibility and reality: how can we guarantee free expression online? with Bill Echikson (Google), Simon Milner (Facebook), and Felix Treguer (La Quadrature du Net), chaired by Kirsty Hughes (Index on Censorship).
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PAST EVENT: Jung Chang at the Southbank Centre
Date: 24 April
Time: 7:45pm
Venue: Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX
Tickets: £10 book here
In the continuing Southbank season celebrating Index on Censorship’s 40th birthday, Jung Chang will be in conversation with Isabel Hilton.
Jung Chang’s Wild Swans was published 21 years ago, and remains the most successful non-fiction book in British publishing history. The memoir travels from the early days of communist hope and struggle to the birth of a superpower at the end of the 20th century. As China looks set to dominate the world’s economy in the 21st century, over 13 million copies of the book have been sold in 36 languages.
However it remains banned in China.
Topics for discussion at the event include Jung Chang’s writings, censorship and Chinese politics today.
Read the 40th anniversary issue of Index on Censorship magazine, including exclusive articles by Aung San Suu Kyi and Ariel Dorfman, here.
Search the Index on Censorship literary archive for free until 4 May.
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PAST EVENT: Index Freedom of Expression Awards 2012
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PAST EVENT: 25 March: Putin’s Kiss film premiere
PUTIN’S KISS + Q&A with filmmaker Lise Birk Pedersen
Sunday 25 March 20.00, ICA (UK premiere)
Monday 26 March 18.40, Curzon Soho
Meet Masha, a 19-year-old who grew up in Russia under Putin, on her journey through the Nashi youth movement. This coming-of-age tale focuses on Masha’s personal political struggle, painting a grim picture of the Russian political climate. When Masha comes into direct contact with members of the opposition she begins to question Nashi, leading to a shocking event that pushes Masha to make her choice in the end.
Courtesy of Dogwoof.
(Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2012 and International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2011)
Lise Birk Pedersen—Denmark—2011—85m—doc
In Russian with English subtitles
http://ff.hrw.org/film/putins-kiss
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PAST EVENT: Nadine Gordimer at the Southbank Centre
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.
PAST EVENT: The Fight for Free Speech: forty years on – Michael Scammell and Pavel Litvinov at the LSE
Date: 1 March
Time: 7-8.30pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Acclaimed writer and founding editor of Index on Censorship Michael Scammell and former Russian dissident Pavel Litvinov discuss the nature of censorship and the future of freedom of speech. It was Pavel Litvinov’s courageous public appeal to the West for help, during a Soviet show trial in 1968, that inspired the creation of Index on Censorship magazine, a forum for banned writers, artists and intellectuals in the struggle against censorship. Forty years on, as Index on Censorship celebrates its anniversary, this will be a rare opportunity to hear an illuminating discussion from two leading voices in the history of free speech.
Michael Scammell is the author of The Indispensable Intellectual, the authorised biography of Arthur Koestler. Pavel Litvinov is a writer, physicist and human rights activist.
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PAST EVENT: Book launch: Rebecca MacKinnon’s Consent of the Networked
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: neill.wilkins@ihrb.org
PAST EVENT: A discussion with Abdelkader Benali and Hisham Matar, chaired by Jo Glanville
Date: Thursday 26 January
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: UCL, entrance Malet Place, Medical Sciences Building, AV Hill Lecture Theatre
Tickets: free, book here
TIME-TRAVELS IN LITERATURE AND POLITICS
Abdelkader Benali (Moroccan-Dutch author of Wedding by the Sea, and journalist) and Hisham Matar (Libyan author of In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance) discuss freedom of speech, the Arab Spring and artistic responses now and in the past to revolutionary events.
Jo Glanville, editor of Index on Censorship, will chair the event.
The discussion will be followed by a drinks reception.
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