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Name: The Burning Question
Start: 2019-03-08T13:30:00+00:00
End: 2019-03-08T14:30:00+00:00
Location: Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex

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March 8, 2019 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

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The Burning Question

Trevor Phillips and Professor Shohini Chaudhuri

Image of Trevor Phillips and Shohini Chaudhury

Venue:

Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park
Colchester, CO4 3SQ

Tickets:: £5; Book

Box Office:

Mercury Theatre

01206 573948

Trevor Phillips, writer, broadcaster, former president of the NUS, former chairman of the Equality and the Human Rights Commission, and current chairman of Index on Censorship, will discuss the impact of historic and contemporary censorship across art, history and literature with Professor Shohini Chaudhuri from the University of Essex, a film activist as well as educator.

indexoncensorship.org

essex.ac.uk/shohini-chaudhuri

Part of Essex Book Festival and Index on Censorship’s UNSPEAKABLE on Friday 8 March: a day of challenging and illuminating conversations, performance, exhibitions and workshops hosted by the University of Essex, that explores historic and contemporary issues of censorship, no-platforming, freedom of speech, and taboos.

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Venue

Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex

Wivenhoe Park
Colchester, CO4 3SQ

Venue website

01206 873261

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