1984 Now: A Symposium

When:
October 11, 2019 @ 9:15 am – 5:00 pm
2019-10-11T09:15:00+01:00
2019-10-11T17:00:00+01:00
Where:
Nash Room
Worcester College
Oxford
OX1 2HB
Cost:
Free
Contact:
David Dwan

Marking 70 years of Nineteen Eighty-Four. An interdisciplinary symposium involving Joshua Dienstag, political scientist from UCLA; political historian Greg Claeys (RHUL); literary scholars Anna Vaninskaya (Edinburgh) and Nathan Waddell (Birmingham); novelist Joanna Kavenna; Dorian Lynskey, journalist and author of the recently published Ministry of Fear; Jean Seaton, media historian who runs the Orwell Prize among other things; and Victoria Bateman (the so-called ‘Naked Economist’) who will be talking about the politics of clothes and the uses of the naked body in political activism.