Gavan Titley: Is Free Speech Racist? (tentative title)
- Datum: –15.00
- Plats: Engelska parken 22-0031
- Föreläsare: Gavan Titley (Maynooth University)
- Webbsida
- Arrangör: CEMFOR in collaboration with the Forum for Living History
- Kontaktperson: Claes Tängh Wrangel
- Föreläsning
Welcome to a public lecture with Gavan Titley. Co-organized with the Forum for Living History. The lecture is followed by a post-seminar.
Abstract:
To be published
About Gavan Titley:
Gavan Titley is a Professor in the Department of Media Studies, Maynooith Univeristy. He is interested in ideas and understandings of freedom of speech in a context of democratic crisis and communicative abundance. In exploring this theme, Titley has published Is Free Speech Racist? (Polity Press, 2020) and is currently working on What is Free Speech For? for Bristol University Press's new What Is It For? series. Titley’s longstanding research interests and commitments are in the politics of race, racism and multiculturalism in European politics, and the generative role of media and communications in this politics. In this field he has published Racism and Media (Sage Publications, 2019) and is currently working on a new book, The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto, with Anamik Saha and Francesca Sobande, for Polity Press's Media Manifesto series. Previous books include The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age, written with Alana Lentin (Zed Books 2011), the co-edited National Conversations: Cultural Diversity and Public Service Media (Intellect Books 2014) and After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, Racism, Free Speech (Zed Books 2017).