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"Contribution not redistribution - this was Orwell's journey. It must be ours." Huge thanks to @lisanandy and our brilliant audience for a truly stimulating #OrwellLecture at @UCL last night!
Fascinating & inspiring #orwelllecture by @lisanandy tonight. As she so eloquently put it, we need to realise “geography is destiny” . And she finally signed her book for me!
We're excited to be partnering with @UCLPolicyLab for next week's #OrwellLecture. A few in-person tickets still available - including concessions for students - or join us online from anywhere.
Join us here at @UCL on December 6th for the Orwell Lecture given this year by @lisanandy. In this special lecture, Lisa Nandy will be exploring how we build a country that works for all. https://t.co/1ZKONwdsRA
The second half of the lecture included an impassioned argument in favour of the right to solitude, which is being threatened by digital life for writers and readers alike, which your resident tweeter took to heart. We recommend watching the lecture in full... #orwelllecture
McEwan argues that it was through 'abandoning himself to an all-encompassing pessimism that Orwell found the freedom to write political novels like 1984 and Animal Farm. #orwelllecture
Comparing Orwell and Camus' approach to freedom and constraint in literature, McEwan notes that Camus believed an artist could be radical in intent, and conservative in means. #orwelllecture
“The ordinary, in Orwell’s fiction, I sometimes find, can be oppressive” - Ian McEwan @TheOrwellPrize #Orwelllecture
@UCL_IAS Orwell Foundation trustee David Taylor now introduces our speaker, Ian McEwan, who will be speaking on Orwell's essay Inside the Whale - it is fantastic to be able to welcome an audience again in person (and online) #orwelllecture
We're off! Professor Nicola Miller introduces the lecture on behalf of our hosts @UCL_IAS and thanks Richard Blair, Orwell's son, who has just today donated an important set of letters to the Orwell Archive at UCL. #orwelllecture
I MET IAN MCEWAN (AHHHHH)
(…and got nervous and told him I’ve only not read one of his books, because I’m worried he is going to die and I won’t have anything new of his) #orwelllecture #ianmcewan
'Deliberatively, scrupulously, beginning with the object, and involving as many voices as possible, the role of the museum is to unleash more insight and more context into the discussion of this contested past.' - @TristramHuntVA #orwelllecture
The 2020 #orwelllecture with @TristramHuntVA is now beaming to telescreens worldwide. And if Zoom wasn't enough 'Orwellian' technology for one night, we'll try and capture some of the discussion here on Twitter! The lecture will also be made public after the event.
Join Tristram Hunt (@TristramHuntVA) on Mon 16 Nov at 18:30 for this year's #orwelllecture on 'Decolonising the Wonder House: Orwell, Empire and the Museum'. For more details about this special online event and how to register visit: https://t.co/7blLzesHn4
Also a good opportunity to revisit the 2018 #orwelllecture with @kamilashamsie which is free to watch on YouTube @DiabolicalIdea
https://t.co/xzxDCet3jM
Looking ahead for #ThrowbackThursday: how do you predict elections? @Dannythefink's recent #orwelllecture at @ucl peered through the fog of day-to-day politics to lay down some ground rules. "Voters rarely express themselves in ideological terms." https://t.co/09sUVhfdn0
Really fascinating lecture on predicting elections from Daniel Finkelstein, reminding us all that voters can think and see politics very differently from those of us who analyse politics every day. #OrwellLecture
@wienerlibrary @djtaylorwriter @Dannythefink "I've come to the reluctant view that Johnson's removal of the whip from the Conservative rebels, which I deplored, was key to the result in 2019." #orwelllecture
@wienerlibrary @djtaylorwriter @Dannythefink "In 2010 a lot of effort was put into convincing middle class voters Cameron looked and sounded like them. The policies hadn't changed much." #orwelllecture
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