Upcoming Events
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Upcoming Event: Unlocked – The Crisis in Prisons
What can writers do?
Wed 8 Feb 2012
6:30pmFree Word Lecture Theatre
There’s a literacy crisis in the UK prison system and we need to do something about it. English PEN will be asking what role literature can play in our criminal justice system: What’s being done? What more can we do? Focusing on practical steps forward with a panel of leading experts and writers, this special English…
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Upcoming Event: To Fight Through Cartoon
Exhibition launch
Wed 15 Feb 2012
6:30pmFree Word Hall
ARTICLE 19 cordially invites you to the launch of ‘TO FIGHT THROUGH CARTOON’, the new London print exhibition by acclaimed Malaysian political cartoonist Zunar. This series of editorial cartoons is banned in his home country and now travels to London from Bilbao, Spain, where it received warm praise for its searing exploration of state corruption, the ‘Anwar conspiracy…
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Upcoming Event: Book launch: Rebecca MacKinnon’s Consent of the Networked
Mon 27 Feb 2012
5:30pmFree Word Lecture Theatre
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 McKinnon is the co-founder of Global Voices Online. In her new book she argues that a global struggle for control of the Internet is now…
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Upcoming Event: Free Speech and Literature: The Night Class
Tue 28 Feb 2012
6:30pmThe Sassoon Beer Board Room
Every Tuesday, 6.30pm-8.30pm 28th February - 3rd April This six-part course, led by Dr Sophie Mayer, will consider some of the best known and most dramatic challenges to free speech: attacks on poems, plays, novels and films. You will consider how and why the idea of creative freedom operates differently in different spaces and for different audiences: the…
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Upcoming Event: Free Speech Cafe
Thu 1 Mar 2012
5:30pmFree Word Lecture Theatre
The latest in a series of regular events, giving members the opportunity to debate the free speech issues of the moment. Hosted by English PEN staff and trustees, we promise lively speakers and a robust discussion. Previous topics have included privacy and phone hacking. This salon style event is open exclusively to PEN members and their guests - please bring…
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Upcoming Event: China Inside Out
Thu 29 Mar 2012
9:30amFree Word Lecture Theatre
9.30am - 5.30pm What is the true story of contemporary Chinese literature? What stories do Chinese writers tell about their country - and what stories remain untold? What role do poets and novelists play in representing their country to fellow citizens, and to the outside world? And how accurate are the stories that we tell about China in the West? …
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Upcoming Event: The Literary Conference
Writing in a Digital Age
Fri 8 Jun 2012
9:30amFree Word Lecture Theatre
An up-to-the-minute conference to make sense of the many possibilities open to writers today, with practical sessions, workshops, case studies, working examples, debates and networking. The discussions will explore the key issues facing writers, such as making and selling ebooks, choosing to self-publish or go via traditional routes, an exploration of the emerging international markets, how technology changes…