1984 Now

David Dwan, Lisa Mullen

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A week-long event in Oxford exploring the legacy and impact of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
EVENING TALK: ORWELL AND JOURNALISM 10 October  5.30pm-8pm The Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Worcester College, Oxford OX1 2HB
A conversation about contemporary journalism and politics with Carole Cadwalladr - winner of the Orwell Prize 2018 Fintan O'Toole - winner of the Orwell Prize 2017
 
SYMPOSIUM: NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR NOW 11 October 2019 9am-5pm The Nash Room, Worcester College, Oxford OX1 2HB
9.15 Greeting  9.20 Jean Seaton, ‘Orwell and Fear’ 9.40 Joshua Dienstag, ‘Orwell’s Pessimism’
10.40-11.10 Coffee Break
11.10 Anna Vaninskaya, ‘Speaking Truth to Power: George Orwell and Victor Serge’ 11.30 Dorian Lynskey, ‘Orwellspeak: How the Language of Nineteen Eighty-Four Infiltrated Politics and Journalism in the 1950s
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30 Joanna Kavenna, ‘How to Live in an Unreal Reality’: The Power of Fiction in a Post-Truth Age’ 1.50 Victoria Bateman, ‘Speaking Naked Truth to Power’
2.40-3.10 Coffee Break
3.10 Nathan Waddell: ‘Oceania’s Dirt: Mess, Filth and Nausea in Nineteen Eighty-Four’ 3.30 Greg Claeys, ‘Orwell for the Twenty-First Century’
4.20. Concluding Remarks
 
EXHIBITION: ROOM 103 11-18 October 9am-7pm Foyer of the English Faculty Building, Manor Road, OX1 3QU
A selection of art inspired by Orwell's novel Free to enter - no ticket necessary

Worcester College

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