Search results for "Michael Scammell"

PAST EVENT: The Fight for Free Speech: forty years on – Michael Scammell and Pavel Litvinov at the LSE

 1 March: The Fight for Free Speech with Michael Scammell and Pavel Litvinov
2012-01-18

Jodie Ginsberg: “Free expression needs defenders”

 In the very first edition of Index on Censorship magazine – published in 1972 – the then editor Michael Scammell wrote that a definite need existed for such an organisation
2016-04-15

Julia Farrington: Pre-emptive censorship by the police is a clear infringement of civil liberties

 In 1972, Michael Scammell, first editor of Index on Censorship magazine wrote in the first edition - “Freedom of expression is not self-perpetuating, but needs to be maintained by the constant vigilance of those who care about it.” We obviously haven’t been very vigilant here in the UK
2015-09-29

Freedom is not a luxury

 Michael Scammell, founding editor of Index on Censorship, recalls the role of Stephen Spender in the birth of the magazine
2010-02-12

PAST EVENT: Koestler – The Indispensable Intellectual

 Koestler - The Indispensable Intellectual: Michael Scammell at the Free Word Centre, Tuesday 16 February 1pm
2010-01-26

Winner of 2018 George Theiner Award announced

 British academic David Short has been announced as the recipient of the George Theiner Award 2018.
2018-05-14

Expanding the space for the arts: Challenging the UK’s risk averse culture

 The arts have an important role to express and process the diverse and often divergent opinion and experience that coexist in our society
2017-12-20

How Index on Censorship started

 Looking back, it is easy enough to trace the various influences that brought Index on Censorship magazine into existence.
2017-12-04

Mouth Shut, Loud Shouts: Index at Marabouparken

 Mouth Shut, Loud Shouts at Marabouparken will feature material from the Index on Censorship archive.
2017-07-28

Flemming Rose: Censorship and self-censorship in the 21st century

 Danish journalist Flemming Rose delivered a lecture on 9 March 2017 as part of Censorship Awareness Week at Wellesley College.
2017-03-15

After 45 years, Index on Censorship magazine “as necessary as ever”

 A quarterly magazine set up in 1972, Index has published oppressed writers and refused to be silenced across 252 issues.
2017-02-14

Freedom fighters (Times Literary Supplement)

 Index on Censorship magazine reviewed by the Times Literary Supplement. Founded in 1972 by the British author and translator Michael Scammell, Index on Censorship has been dedicated for more than four decades to documenting worldwide censorship and promoting freedom of expression. Read the full article
2016-10-26