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SUMMARY:What can we learn from…? Cambridge\, 1 November 2023
DESCRIPTION: ‘What can we learn from…?’ events take as a starting point important thinkers and cultural figures from the past. They offer an opportunity to understand the emergence of key ideals related to freedom and to explore and debate if and how they remain important in the present. \n \nThis event is supported by Free Speech Champions \nEach salon starts with short\, accessible talks from thought-provoking experts and critics who will offer insights into key thinkers in history. Talks are followed by plenty of time for discussion\, with the chance to ask questions and put forward points. Together we will interrogate why these thinkers and the ideas they promoted can offer valuable insights that help us understand freedom then and now. \nTuesday 1 November\, 7.15pm-9.15pm \nTALKS \nShort\, accessible talks from experts and critics will offer insights into key John Locke and John Milton  \n1: John Locke and Toleration – Piers Benn\, philosopher\, author and lecturer\nIt was only in the 17th century that society started to tolerate competing religions and beliefs. Today\, values of tolerance and respect are regularly upheld. But some argue that tolerating free expression has its limits and society should not be placed at risk of intolerant ideas or even overly judgemental views. Should we tolerate free expression\, or retain a right to be intolerant of intolerance? \n \n2: Milton and Liberty – Andrew Doyle\, author\, The New Puritans\n“Give me liberty to know\, to utter\, and to argue freely according to conscience”\, declared the poet John Milton in Areopagitica. Often associated with 17th-century non-conformist Puritans\, Milton rejected licensing of printed texts and rebuffed the notion that prohibitions\, bans or force could create virtuous men. Today\, amidst the rise of a new puritanism\, being offensive can be deemed an offence\, demands for ‘social justice’ brook no dissent while uttering uncomfortable truths can lead to public shaming. From the ages of the Puritans\, old and new\, what can we learn about the case for freedom of belief and expression? \n \nVENUE \nGonville and Caius College\nTrinity St\, Cambridge CB2 1TA\nSee Google Maps for location.\nLectures: Long Room\nSeminars: Long Room\, Senior Parlour Room \nSPEAKERS  \nANDREW DOYLE\npresenter\, Free Speech Nation\, GB News; author\, The New Puritans: how the religion of social justice captured the Western world\nAndrew Doyle is a writer\, comedian\, and a presenter on GB News. He is the author of Free Speech and Why It Matters (2021) and The New Puritans: how the religion of social justice captured the Western world (2022). He is the creator of the satirical character Titania McGrath\, who has published two books – Woke: a guide to social justice (2019) and My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism (2020).  He began presenting his show Free Speech Nation on GB News in June 2021. Before then he was a columnist for spiked\, a panellist on the BBC’s Moral Maze and regularly reviewed the papers on Sky News. \nDR PIERS BENN\nphilosopher and lecturer; author\, Intellectual Freedom and the Culture Wars\nPiers teaches philosophical ethics at Fordham University London Centre and his latest book is Intellectual Freedom and the Culture Wars.  His interests include ethics\, philosophy of religion and philosophy of psychiatry and he has taught at numerous universities including St Andrews\, Imperial College London and King’s College London. During the 1990s\, he organised seminars for students in Poland and the Czech Republic\, in collaboration with host institutions struggling to rebuild education after the communist period. He is a regular media commentator.
URL:https://livingfreedom.org.uk/event/what-can-we-learn-from-cambridge-1-november-2023
LOCATION:Gonville and Caius College\, Trinity Street\, Cambridge\, CB2 1TA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:University Salon
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SUMMARY:Freedom Forum Theatre Club: 'Sticks and Stones'\, Tristan Bates Theatre\, London
DESCRIPTION:We’ll meet at the Tristan Bates Theatre to see the new play ‘Sticks and Stones’ which explores some thorny questions related to identity politics\, class and freedom of speech. \nAfter the play\, we’ll be going to a nearby bar for a drink with playwright Dameon Garnett who will be available to chat about Stick and Stones and the issues it raises around freedom – including why The Actors Centre cancelled the planned post-performance in-conversation at the theatre that was to explore the issues around freedom raised by the play. \nAnyone coming to this meetup can take advantage of the Living Freedom group booking tickets at a reduced price of £5 (full price is £15). These must be booked through Paypal below. \n‘STICKS AND STONES’ (2020)\nsee https://www.actorscentre.co.uk/theatre/sticks-and-stones \n‘Under the law you are guilty\, I would say\, of a hate crime’. \nAfua\, a black senior manager in a secondary school\, is asked to investigate online comments by a white colleague\, Tina; a woman she thought was a friend. Do Tina’s comments constitute hate speech\, and\, if so\, should the police get involved? Afua has always fought for women’s rights\, and Tina is a wronged woman\, but with an axe to grind that even Afua is not prepared for. \nIn an intensely claustrophobic setting\, the clash between the two women becomes increasingly explosive; opening up questions around speech\, power\, race and class\, that perhaps modern Britain is not ready to answer. \n‘You can’t deny Garnett’s bruising energy’; Michael Billington\, The Guardian
URL:https://livingfreedom.org.uk/event/freedom-forum-theatre-club-sticks-and-stones-tristan-bates-theatre-london
CATEGORIES:Freedom Forum
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SUMMARY:Freedom Forum Film Club: 'The Witch'
DESCRIPTION:‘The Witch’ is the Sundance prize-winning film from Robert Eggers who has just released ‘The Lighthouse’. Ahead of Living Freedom School 2020\, this is an opportunity to chat about some themes that we’ll get to grips with at the school including demonology\, heresy and moral panics. \nSet in early 17th century\, Robert Eggers’s Sundance prize-winning feature debut ‘The Witch: A New-England Folktale’ tells the story of a puritanical English family’s torment as they’re exiled to the wilderness from their New World community. This is the age when anxieties about witchcraft and anti-witch hysteria were gathering momentum. While the film is heavy on period detail\, reviewers have said it also speaks to important issues our times. What does this 21st century take on the figure of the witch tell us about then and now? \nAfter the film\, there will be a short ‘in-conversation’ with Maren Thom\, a researcher in film\, freelance writer and director\, acting workshops. \n£3 entry payable on the door covers popcorn and a glass of wine / beer
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SUMMARY:Freedom Forum Xmas Bash Balloon Debate
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a drink\, good company and a fun Xmas balloon debate. \nWhat is the most important representation of freedom in culture? A panel of six valiant freedom lovers will seek to convince you of their choice\, from art to non-fiction to literature. \nThey each have just three minutes to present their case\, followed by a round of questions from the audience. Then there is a vote\, and the top three will be given an additional one minute to convince you to back their choice. \nWhich cultural representation of freedom – and its defender – deserves to stay in the balloon? You decide! \n\nMadalina Benderschi anthropology undergraduate\, UCL and Living Freedom alumnus; defending ‘The Myth Of Sisyphus’ (1942) by Albert Camus\nManick Govinda independent arts consultant; defending ‘Convergence’ (1952) by Jackson Pollock\nDr Beth Guilding academic\, Goldsmiths\, University of London; defending ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy (1995-2000) by Philip Pullman\nAtyab Rashid incoming vice president\, King’s College London Liberal Democrat Society; defending ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ (2010) by Kanye West\nDavid Bowden associate fellow\, Academy of Ideas; defending ‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) by John Milton\nJessica Ní Mhainín policy research and advocacy officer\, Index on Censorship; defending ‘Taste of Freedom’\, Futurama (2002) by Matt Groening\n\n£3 entry payable on the door – includes glass of wine / beer
URL:https://livingfreedom.org.uk/event/freedom-forum-xmas-bash-balloon-debate
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