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

Dissidents, spies and the lies that came in from the cold

 Index on Censorship started at the front line of an ideological war
2022-04-14

Contents – Index at 50: The battles won, lost and currently raging
2022-03-17

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