About this Event
Delve into the books that have shaped and inspired the life of award-winning writer and broadcaster Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA whose work on human rights and refugee studies draws on connections between literature, history, politics, law, and social policy.
Join us at the bar from 18:00, with the event beginning at 18:30.
Speakers:
Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge’s work focuses on twentieth-century and contemporary literature, political theory, and history, Human Rights, and Refugee Studies, drawing on the interdisciplinary connections between literature, history, politics, law, and social policy.
After focusing on the effects of modern violence on the mind in the first part of her career, her more recent writing has focused on the creative history of responses to that violence in two awarding-winning books: 2011), which won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, 2014, and (2018), winner of the Modernist Studies Association Best Book Prize 2018. In 2020 she published a collection of essays, (2020), which drew on her journalism and work her work with two major interdisciplinary research projects Refugee Hosts and Rights4Time.
The work of the twentieth-century political theorist, Hannah Arendt, has long been crucial Stonebridge’s understanding of modern history and contemporary politics. Her new book will be published in 2024.
Chair:
Moya Lothian-McLean
Moya Lothian-McLean is a freelance journalist and editor, specialising in features and opinion writing on politics, technology, digital culture, fitness, gender and race. She was the Politics Editor for gal-dem and is currently a Contributing Editor at Novara Media.
This event will have live subtitles provided by StageTEXT, delivered by MyClearText.
Free, booking required.
Event schedule:
- Registration: 18:00-18:30
- Event starts: 18:30
- Audience Q&A: 19:30
- Event ends: 19:45
To watch the event live stream, please use this link: https://vimeo.com/event/4678190
This event will take place both in-person at the British Academy's home at 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, St James, London, SW1Y 5AH and will be live-streamed via Vimeo. A link will be sent to online attendees.
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Image: Lyndsey Stonebridge at Gathering 2024. Credit Bethany Birnie - OnBeing
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, United Kingdom
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