Public lecture with Emory Douglas
Black Panther, the revolutionary art of Emory Douglas
Date: Thursday, 6 November 2008
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Emory Douglas was born May 24th, 1943 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Douglas attended City College of San Francisco where he majored in commercial art.
He was politically involved as Revolutionary Artist and then Minister of Culture for the Black Panther party in Oakland, CA from February, 1967 until its discontinuance in the Early 1980's. Douglas's art was always seen on front pages of the Black Panther Newspaper and, reflecting the ideals and rhetoric of the Black Panther Party.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, email arts@lse.ac.uk| or phone 020 7955 6043.
Photos by Utsa Mukerhejee
Public lecture with Peter Doggett
Fantasies of revolution
Date: Thursday, 13 November 2008
Time: 7.00pm
Location: Shaw Library, 6th Floor, Old Building
In the late 1960s, political activists, rock stars and the counter-culture media conspired to make it seem as if a revolution was about to sweep away the existing order in the USA and the rest of the capitalist world.
Yet by the early 1970s, that dream had died. Was revolution ever really on the agenda? Or were these fantasies doomed from the start? Who were the heroes of this saga, and were they also the villains?
The author of a definitive guide to this remarkable period of modern history examines the evidence, and the charismatic but fallible icons of the era.
Peter Doggett has been writing about music, popular culture and social history for more than 25 years. He is the author of the critically acclaimed history of rock music's encounter with revolutionary politics, There's A Riot Going On, as well as many other books, including Are You Ready For The Country and The Art And Music Of John Lennon.
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Public lecture in association with the centre for the study of global govenance
Opening up illiberal regimes: do media and communications matter?
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Ye Naing Moe, Professor Mary Kaldor, others tbc.
**PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED**
What role do journalists, civil society actors, and scholars play in creating spaces for democratic debate and civil society activity? This panel will explore the impacts of new forms of communication and the importance of traditional print and broadcast media in diverse regions. Mary Kaldor is co-director of CSGG at LSE. Ye Naing Moe is a journalist in Burma.
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Public lecture with Colin Grant
Marcus Garvey: demagogue or messiah?
Date: Thursday, 20 November 2008
Time: 7.00pm
Location: Shaw Library, 6th Floor, Old Building
Marcus Garvey: master orator, Leninist, 'black Moses', flamboyant hat-wearer, poet, naked propagandist, romantic, visionary. At one time, in the first half of the twentieth century, he was the most famous black man in the world.
By May 1940, he was impoverished and dying in London, accused of failure and, in his failed business adventures and dealings with the Ku Klux Klan, inexcusable action. In Colin Grant's new biography of a forgotten legend, we are reminded that, to Garvey's admirers, there was God and there was Garvey.
Colin Grant is the son of Jamaican parents who came to Britain in the late 1950s. He grew up in Luton and spent five years studying medicine at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel before turning to the stage. He has written and produced numerous plays including The Clinic, based on the lives of the photojournalists, Don McCullin and Tim Page. He joined the BBC in 1989 and worked as a script editor and producer of arts programmes on BBC World Service before joining the BBC radio Science Unit. He lives in Brighton.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, email arts@lse.ac.uk| or phone 020 7955 6043.
Public lecture with Malu Halasa
Transit Tehran: young Iran and it's inspirations
Date: Thursday, 27 November
Time: 7.00pm
Location: Shaw Library, 6th Floor, Old Building
Kaveh Golestan was an inspiration to the current generation of Iranian photojournalists, filmmakers and reporters, including Azadeh Moaveni, author of Lipstick Jihad, and documentary filmmaker and journalist Maziar Bahari.
Malu Halasa, who coedited Transit Tehran, an anthology of new writing and images from Tehran with Bahari, examines Golestan's work and continuing appeal following his 2003 death.
The lecture will be illustrated with images by Golestan and other photographers such as Newsha Tavakolian, who was named best photographer of 2006 by National Geographic, Abbas Kowsari, Javad Montazeri and Omid Salehi, who document the social transformation of their country.
Malu Halasa is an editor and writer. She is coeditor of Kaveh Golestan: Recording the Truth in Iran (Hatje Cantz/Prince Claus Fund Library 2007), Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations (Garnet Publishing/Prince Claus Fund Library, 2008) and The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie (Chronicle Books/Prince Claus Fund Library 2008).
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, email arts@lse.ac.uk| or phone 020 7955 6043.
Public lecture with Paul Lowe
The new photojournalism and revolution: Susan Meiselas in Nicaragua and Gilles Peress in Iran
Date: Thursday, 4 December
Time: 7.00pm
Location: Shaw Library, 6th Floor, Old Building
The late 1970s saw a sea-change in the photojournalistic coverage of world events that is still reverberating today. Photographers shifted from the concept of 'objective', balanced and supposedly 'truthful' documentation of the news to a more personal, partisan, subjective and authored approach that reflected the paradigms of the New Journalism of the 1970s.
Two bodies of work, published as books during the early 1980s, stand out as seminal in this process, Nicaragua by Susan Meiselas and Telex Iran by Gilles Peress. Both set a new precedent for how the aesthetic and formal qualities of the image could be harnessed to depict political and social events, and for how the vision and commitment of the individual could become the story itself. To coincide with the exhibition 'Recording the Truth in Iran', this talk will compare two distinctive and vital depictions of societies caught up in the turbulence of revolution.
Paul Lowe is a senior lecturer in Photography at the University of the Arts London, and an award-winning photographer living and working between Sarajevo and London. His work is represented by Panos Pictures, and has appeared in Time, Newsweek, Life, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer and The Independent amongst others.
He has covered breaking news the world over, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nelson Mandela's release, the conflict in the former Yugoslavia and the destruction of Grozny. Since 2004, Paul has been the Course leader of the Masters programme in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication.
His book, Bosnians, documenting 10 years of the war and post war situation in Bosnia, was published in April 2005.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, email arts@lse.ac.uk| or phone 020 7955 6043.