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V tokratni oddaji Intervju smo gostili podpredsednico upravnega odbora mednarodnega združenja pisateljev in pesnikov PEN International, predsednico slovenskega centra PEN, pisateljico in publicistko Tanjo Tuma. Avtorica številnih člankov s področja založništva, pobudnica bralnih kampanj za mlade in ustanoviteljica založbe Tuma, pri kateri sta med drugim izšli pomembni knjigi z naslovom Antologija slovenskih pesnic in Pozabljena polovica, je velika zagovornica enakosti in družbe sožitja. Gostja današnjega Intervjuja je aktivna pri mednarodnem odboru Pisatelji za mir, pri svojem delovanju pa se bori tudi za pravice žensk ter zapostavljenih družbenih skupin. Tanjo Tuma je v tednu, ko obeležujemo mednarodni dan žensk, pred mikrofon povabila voditeljica Tita Mayer.

We were thrilled to have the opportunity to talk to PEN America's Jeremy Young about what a second Trump administration holds in store for higher education. It was an informative—and sobering—conversation. Over the next four years, we should be prepared for a tsunami of ideologically-driven threats to academic freedom, campus free expression and the basic integrity of higher education. If you would rather read than listen, there is a transcript attached below. Show NotesPEN America's *Educational Censorship* page is a terrific resourceOn Christopher Rufo, see Benjamin Wallace-Wells, “How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory,” New Yorker, June 18, 2021 and Michael Kruse, “DeSantis' Culture Warrior: ‘We Are Now Over the Walls,'” Politico, March 24, 2023. For Rufo's take on critical race theory, in his own words, see this YouTube video. Here is the full text of Executive Order 13950, which became the template for most of the anti-CRT (or “divisive concepts”) laws passed in red states. On the Stop WOKE Act, the marquee anti-CRT law signed into law by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in 2022, check out these two Banished episodes:The Sunshine State Descends into Darkness (Again)Will Florida's "Stop WOKE Act" Hold Up in Court?Jeffrey Sachs and Jeremy Young predict the future: “For Federal Censorship of Higher Ed, Here's What Could Happen in 2025” (PEN America, January 2, 2025)For more on the phenomenon of “jawboning,” see this page from FIRE and this page from the Knight First Amendment Institute On “anticipatory obedience,” see this excerpt from Timothy Snyder's 2017 book, On Tyranny On legislative challenges to campus DEI, see the Chronicle of Higher Education DEI Legislation Tracker. (We are quite skeptical of many conventional DEI efforts but state bans are a cure that is far worse than the disease )For a deeper dive on accreditation, see Eric Kelderman, “Trump's Vision for College Accreditation Could Shake Up the Sector” (Chronicle of Higher Education, November 26, 2024)On Title VI investigations by the Office of Civil Rights, see Zach Montague, “Campus Protest Investigations Hang Over Schools as New Academic Year Begins” (New York Times, October 5, 2024)Here is the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism. Kenneth Stern, one of the definition's main authors, explains why he is concerned it is being used to promote campus censorshipOn the prospect of a much heftier endowment tax for the country's wealthiest institutions, see Phillip Levine, “How Trump Could Devastate Our Top Colleges' Finances” (Chronicle of Higher Education, January 13, 2025). Levine addresses the normative question—should college endowments be taxed?—here. TranscriptJeff: So, we're looking forward to a second Trump administration.Jeremy: Are we looking forward to a second Trump administration?Amna: No…towards.Jeff: We are anticipating…I personally am dreading a second Trump administration.Amna: This is Banished and I'm Amna Khalid, along with my colleague Jeff Snyder. Jeff and I were delighted to have the chance to catch up with PEN America's Jeremy Young at the recent American Historical Association conference in New York City. He's one of the most informed and astute analysts of government driven censorship in higher education today. We started by asking him to tell us a little about PEN America.Jeremy: PEN America is a 102 year old organization that exists at the intersection of literature and human rights. It is one of 140 PEN centers around the world which are in a loose network of PEN Centers governed by PEN International. PEN America's mission is to celebrate literature and defend the freedoms that make it possible, of which two of the foremost are academic freedom and freedom of expression.Amna: And what's your specific role?Jeremy: I am the Director of State and Higher Education Policy at PEN America, which means that I oversee our Freedom to Learn program, which leads actions and responses to educational censorship legislation, largely from the state governments, but also from the federal government. Things like DEI bans, critical race theory restrictions, and various other types of restrictions on faculty governance and university autonomy.Amna: We're eager to hear your predictions on what the higher ed sector should be bracing for with the second Trump administration. But first, Jeremy, could you please remind us of the nature of the attacks against higher education during Trump 1.0?Jeremy: In the summer and fall of 2020, this really happened late in the first Trump administration, there was a national panic around critical race theory, and this was created by Chris Rufo and some others really as a response, a backlash, if you will, against the George Floyd protests, the Black Lives Matter movement, the popularity of the 1619 Project, and so on, this sort of moment of racial reckoning. And so Rufo and others (Rufo is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute) decided to use this term critical race theory, which of course is an academic term with a particular set of meanings but to, as he put it, decodify and recodify it, essentially weaponize it to mean things that weren't all that connected to the actual theory of critical race theory and were really just a sort of catchall for criticisms of DEI and other race-based pedagogies and ideas. And so Rufo was able to convince president Trump to issue an executive order 13950 called Race and Sex Stereotyping that laid out a list of nine divisive concepts which bore some passing resemblance to critical race theory, but really were vague, and general, and banned all sorts of practices related to race, gender, and identity, and ideas related to race, gender, and identity that were unclear and difficult to interpret. Originally, this was a restriction aimed solely at trainings in government agencies…the executive order never went into effect. It was stayed by a court and repealed on the first day of the Biden administration. But that language of the divisive concepts then began to appear in state legislatures aimed now squarely at education. At first, at K-12 institutions primarily, and over time, higher education became more and more of the target.In 2023, we started to see a shift toward sort of broad spectrum attacks on higher education, moving away from some of the direct speech restrictions of the critical race theory bans, in part because of court cases that had gone adversely for those restrictions, and instead restricting broad swaths of university governance, including DEI offices, the ability of a university to manage diversity work on its own as a sort of shared governance function, tenure restrictions on faculty governance, restrictions on curriculum, which I think are going to be very prominent in 2025.Amna: You mentioned backlash to the 2020 racial reckoning as a key factor driving the anti-CRT movement. Can you say something more about where this opposition to CRT and now DEI is coming from?Jeremy: I think that there are several causes that are inseparable from one another. I think there are people who actually do want to restrict those particular ideas on campus, who want to advance a sort of triumphalist Western canon narrative of America as the victor, and they're just very opposed to any discussions that paint the United States in any way that is not hyper-patriotic and perfect. There's absolutely some racism, some sexism, some, some discrimination, discriminatory bias that's involved.I also think that there is a real desire to simply crush university power that I think comes out of the educational realignment that we have seen over the last 10 years. Kamala Harris won college educated Americans by 14 points, and four years ago, Joe Biden won them by four, and prior to the 2016 election, there was essentially no difference between the parties, really, at any time in American history on the axis of college education. There is now a sense I think among some conservative forces that instead of the long-time conservative project of reforming universities, having more viewpoint diversity, think of the Koch Centers in various institutions. Instead they're a place where liberals go to get educated, so we should just crush them, right? So I think that's part of it. It's just the goal of taking away universities' autonomy on everything is a key component.And the third component is political gain. And that is the one that has fluctuated the most over this period. Glenn Youngkin won a come from behind victory running on criticizing critical race theory in K-12 schools. And Steve Bannon said in 2021, I think about critical race theory and I see 50 new House seats in the midterm elections. Now, when that didn't happen, I think it began to become clear that these attacks are not as salient as they were thought to be. I think in 2023 and 2024, there was a real move away from that, especially with, also with the collapse of the DeSantis presidential campaign, which was built entirely around this idea of him being, fighting the war on woke. There was a sense that, maybe you still want to do these things, but now it's going to be quiet, it's going to be stealth mode, because there's no political gain to be gotten from having a big press release around this, around the Stop WOKE Act. But the other two motivations, the motivation of restricting certain ideas about race; and the motivation of smashing the power of higher education, those have remained constant.Jeff: Very succinct and helpful. Thank you. You and your colleague Jeffrey Sachs recently wrote an informative and sobering piece about Trump's plans for higher ed in 2025 and beyond. Maybe you could tell us a little about your key predictions. The first one you mention is jawboning. What is jawboning and why should we be worried about it?Jeremy: Jawboning, put simply, is when government officials, instead of passing a law requiring someone who isn't a government official to do something, they simply browbeat or bully or threaten them into doing it. In some ways you can look at the congressional hearings as a form of jawbonings or making threats against presidents at Columbia and Harvard and so on. But the classic example is actually what we're seeing at the state level where lawmakers are simply going to university presidents and say, saying, okay, we're not going to pass a DEI ban or a curriculum restriction. We're going to simply request that you make one on your own or we'll cut your funding. Or we'll pass one next year that's worse than anything you could imagine. It's a very intimate form of censorship, right? It takes restrictions out of the legislative process where they can be challenged at a hearing; out of the judicial process where they can be challenged on constitutional grounds; and every single one of these bills has at least some constitutional infirmities. And instead makes it just a threat, right? We're gonna cut your budget. What are you gonna do about that? It's a very difficult position for presidents to be in because they don't have a lot of leverage.Jeff: I think it was Yale historian Timothy Snyder who coined the term anticipatory obedience.  He said it was a dynamic that's often seen under conditions of rising authoritarianism. So you've got individuals and groups that start to make concessions they think will appease the powers that be. Is there a connection here to jawboning?Jeremy: Yes, so we talk about over compliance and pre-compliance. We're not going to comply with the letter of the law, we're going to comply with the spirit of the law. There is a law in Alabama that passed in 2024 that restricts some elements of DEI, but does not actually ban outright the DEI offices. And every university in Alabama has treated it as though it is an outright ban. And that's significant, in particular, because of the nature of these laws. You know, you go look at a set of statutes in a state legislature or the federal government, what you'll notice is that most laws are very precise. Think about traffic laws. What are you allowed to do on the road? It's very specific. You can drive this many miles an hour this particular way. There's no room for interpretation. There's no room for judgment because the goal is to make you comply with the law. These laws are intentionally vague. They ban broad swaths of ideas which are never defined in the laws.What does it mean to say, for instance, one of the divisive concepts, to say that you're not allowed to say that the United States is fundamentally racist. What does that mean? It doesn't say in the law what that means. It's left up to your interpretation, which means whoever is going to enforce that law gets to decide whether you violate it. That is actually a constitutional violation. It's against the 14th Amendment. And while the courts have found all sorts of infirmities with these laws, that's the one they've found the most consistency. Not freedom of speech, not racial discrimination but vagueness. So over-complying with a vague law is, it's difficult to avoid because these laws lend themselves to over-compliance because they're so vague. But it's also vitally important to avoid doing that.The other thing that we see is pre-compliance, which is just imagining that the legislature is going to pass a law but then whether or not they do it. We intervened with the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, one of the seven accrediting bodies because they were basically enacting what a restriction in Project 2025 that would have forbidden them to have a DEI standard for universities they accredit. And just doing it preemptively.It's not clear whether the education department is able to pass that restriction without legislation. And it's not clear whether legislation or the regulation would survive a court challenge. And they're just saying we'll just take it out. That's pre-compliance. You don't want to do that. And what we argued successfully, is that, again, even if you don't think an accreditor should have a DEI standard, we don't take a position on that. The worst time to get rid of your DEI standard is one month before a new administration that's promised to ban it tells you to. That's the moment when you put up your back and say, no, we're not going to comply with this.Jeff: Jeremy, tell us a little bit more about the new Trump administration's plans to disrupt the conventional work of accreditors.Jeremy: So higher education institutions are accredited by one of seven accrediting bodies, six of which have historically served certain regions, but now under new federal regulations the university can work with any of the seven accreditors. But they still tend to be concentrated in regions.Accreditation is really the only thing that separates a real substantive university from a diploma mill; and the way that accreditation is enforced, is that the Department of Education will only provide federal student financial aid, which 55 percent of all students receive, to schools that it recognizes as legitimate accreditors, which currently is those seven institutional accreditors. They are private or nonprofit organizations. They're run by academics. They have their pluses and minuses, but they are pretty much the guarantor of institutional quality in higher education. And if you look at Project 2025, everything that they say they want to do to higher education is focused on accreditation. They have identified these accreditors as the soft underbelly of higher education. And the simplest thing that they want to do and that they probably will at least try to do is to ban accreditors from having DEI standards, of which six of the seven currently do.But they really want to go further. What they really want to do is to undermine the system of accreditation itself by allowing any jurisdiction, any state, to either charter its own accreditor or serve as its own accreditor. So Ron DeSantis could become the accreditor for all universities in Florida. And now instead of those universities having DEI offices, he can say you cannot be accredited in the state of Florida unless you've banned DEI and basically instituted a classical curriculum, a Hillsdale style classical curriculum. It's a little more complicated than project 2025 makes it sound. Our analysis is that while they may attempt to do it through regulatory action, the process of negotiated rulemaking in the Department of Education is sufficiently complex that it would probably stop them from doing it and so that probably means that they need legislation to change the Higher Education Act, which would be subject to a filibuster.So this is something that we will be watching to see if they try to do it administratively. It may not be possible. And we'll also be watching if they try to slip it into one of those reconciliation bills that are being proposed that would be able to go through without a filibuster.Jeff: So that's how the accreditation system might be weaponized. You and Sacks also identify Title VI enforcement by the Office of Civil Rights as a key area of concern. Maybe we can break this down into its component parts. What is the Office of Civil Rights and what's Title VI?Jeremy: Sure. So the Office of Civil Rights is an office within the Department of Education that ensures that educational institutions meet the requirements of the various civil rights laws. It covers Title VI funding, which is funding that is tied to financial aid for universities, and it makes sure that institutions that are receiving federal financial aid are following these civil rights protections. It is an office does good work and we have a good relationship with the office.We have some concerns about the way that the Biden administration has been investigating and enforcing agreements with universities around antisemitism. We expect things to get far worse in the new administration. We expect that any university that has any sort of protest or any faculty member who expresses pro-Palestinian views is going to be investigated and sanctioned by the Office of Civil Rights. We expect they're going to launch lawsuits. They're going to really go after universities. So it is an office that is going to be used in some really aggressive ways to restrict speech on campus.Jeff: In terms of restricting speech, you and Sachs are especially worried about the trend on the part of colleges and universities, not to mention states and the federal government, to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism. Why is this so concerning to you both?Jeremy: So the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism is a very interesting document. It starts with a description that is quite thoughtful and then it gives a list of examples of things that could be forms of antisemitism or could accompany antisemitism, and that list includes things like singling out the state of Israel for special criticism that other states are not singled out for that do engage in the same actions or just you know criticizing Zionism, things like that. Which in the context of what that definition was designed for yes, sometimes when you see those statements, it's worth perking your ears up and asking, is this accompanying antisemitism or not?What the laws are doing, and this comes from a model bill that the Goldwater Institute wrote in 2016, and it's now being suffused into all these federal and state policies, is to take those examples of possible antisemitism and change it from possible to definite antisemitism. So anytime you criticize the state of Israel, it's antisemitism. And then writing that into law, saying that universities have to treat this as any instance of this broad definition of antisemitism as hate speech or as a form of harassment. The author of that definition, Kenneth Stern has repeatedly said that it is not designed to be used in that way. In fact, he said it's unconstitutional to use it in that way. And yet that's what we're seeing. So that's the concern. It's not that you shouldn't have a definition of anti Semitism, although I will say our statutes tend not to define particular types of hate speech because it's too subjective, right? This is the reason that we have definitions like severe, pervasive, and targeted for harassment. You're looking at a pattern of behavior because each individual case is protected by free expression.Jeff: I understand that the Office of Civil Rights is currently conducting dozens of Title VI investigations stemming from campus protests over the war in Gaza. There are widespread allegations of antisemitism, many of which are accompanied by competing charges of Islamophobia. How do you think we should make sense of this?Jeremy: These are complex situations. Lots of universities are getting them wrong. Some universities are being overly censorious, some not enforcing harassment protections. And it's right and proper for OCR to investigate these things. The problem is that they are not always coming up with the right findings. That they're not always protecting free expression, balancing free expression adequately with the need to protect students from harassment. We're seeing universities implement draconian time, place and manner restrictions on speech. So just the fact that OCR and the Congress are making all these threatening noises about restricting speech leads a lot of universities to do the censor's work for them.Amna: Jeremy mentioned one other thing the new Trump administration has made ramblings about, which is ramping up the endowment tax on the country's wealthiest institutions. Please see an informative Chronicle of Higher Education article by Philip Levine, linked in the show notes.What all these attacks or interventions, depending on your point of view, have in common, is that they seek to undermine the autonomy of colleges and universities. Here's Jeremy.Jeremy: University autonomy is not a principle that is very widely understood in the United States. It's much more common in Europe where there's an autonomy index and all sorts of things as a way of protecting academic freedom. But it's a vital component of academic freedom. We think about academic freedom in the U.S. primarily as being the freedom of an individual faculty member to speak their mind or to engage in their research or teaching. But, in reality, that freedom can only be protected so long as the people overseeing it, the university administration, are free from the ideological control of the government. The key here is ideological control. We aren't saying that the government doesn't have a budgetary responsibility to oversee the university, or that there isn't a role for the government in community relations, or student success, or access and completion, or any of these things. But when it comes to ideas, what ideas can be present on a campus, whether it's in the classroom, whether it's in a DEI office, anywhere on campus, that is not the government's business, and it cannot be the government's business, or ultimately everyone on campus is simply going to be currying favor with whatever political party is in charge.Amna: Jeremy, this has been wonderful and you've been so kind to give us so much time. Thank you.Jeff: Thank you. It's an absolute pleasure.Amna: That was our conversation with Jeremy Young of PEN America on what Trump 2.0 portends for higher education. As of yesterday, Trump's second term has officially begun. Keep your eyes peeled and ears tuned for what's to come next. If you liked what you heard today, be sure to help us spread the word about Banished, and don't forget to comment and rate this show.Once again, this is Banished, and I'm Amna Khalid, along with Jeff Snyder. Until next time. This is a public episode. 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Exploring Academic Censorship and Its Impact on Free Speech in Universities This episode of Changing Higher Ed® podcast features Dr. Jeremy Young of PEN America, discussing the organization's efforts to combat censorship in higher education. PEN America's "Freedom to Learn" program actively opposes state legislative attempts to restrict academic freedom and free speech on college campuses. The interview highlights concerning trends like "educational gag orders," "jawboning," and DEI bans in various states, emphasizing the threat these actions pose to intellectual discourse and institutional autonomy. Young advocates for universities to prioritize protecting free expression, even amidst political pressure, suggesting strategic approaches for presidents and boards to navigate these challenges. The discussion also covers PEN America's annual report, "America's Censored Classrooms 2024," which tracks these legislative trends. Podcast Overview PEN America's Mission and Background PEN America is a 100-year-old organization focused on defending the freedoms of writers, including academic freedom and freedom of expression. Originally stood for Poets, Essayists, and Novelists but now just "PEN" to be more inclusive of all writers. PEN International has over 140 PEN centers worldwide. PEN America's activities include awards, literary festivals, global writer protection, advocacy against book bans, free speech advocacy, and higher ed advocacy (Freedom to Learn program). PEN America is described as "center-left," maintaining relationships with organizations across the political spectrum. The Threat to Academic Freedom and Free Speech There's a growing movement to constrict the space of ideas available to students on college campuses. The argument often made is that universities lean left, and the solution is to limit existing voices, not to add more conservative perspectives. This trend manifests in attempts to ban courses, curricula, and harass administrators. The "solution to speech is more speech," and increased voices are beneficial. Book Banning and the Underlying Agenda Book banning often involves claims of obscenity but is ultimately an attempt to constrain ideas, not to protect children from inappropriate material. Analysis of banned books reveals they disproportionately feature minoritized identities, including LGBTQ, race, and sexual violence. Those who want to ban these books view them as encouraging those types of identities. PEN believes people need to see themselves reflected in books and that banning them is an attempt to cut off viewpoints for students. "America's Censored Classrooms 2024" Report An annual report tracking legislation that censors colleges and universities. Tracks "educational gag orders" that censor topics/ideas and restrictions on university autonomy (DEI offices, curriculum, accreditation standards, tenure, governance). Focuses on trends in proposed and passed legislation and predictions for the future. Jawboning as a Form of Censorship Jawboning refers to lawmakers threatening or bullying university presidents into actions they want without passing laws. This includes pressuring universities to close DEI offices or eliminate certain programs. It is a stealthy approach as there are no democratic elements, no hearings for public comment, and no laws in place to challenge. It creates a difficult situation for presidents who have limited leverage and no recourse. Congressional hearings on antisemitism have become another form of jawboning intended to intimidate university presidents and make political points. The goal often isn't to address the issue at hand but to exploit them for political gain. Florida as a Case Study in Censorship Florida is cited as "Armageddon for higher education." The state passed the "Stop Woke Act," which is a direct restriction of faculty speech. SB 266 banned DEI and placed significant restrictions on curriculum, causing numerous course eliminations. The University of North Florida removed its interfaith center due to thinking it was a DEI program. The governor replaced the board of New College of Florida with conservative figures who dramatically altered the curriculum and mission. PEN America has opened a permanent office in Florida to respond to these threats. DEI Bans in Higher Education and Their Impacts DEI bans result in the closing of cultural centers, women's centers, and multicultural centers. Staff are often reassigned or laid off in states that pass bans. Iowa has passed the most draconian ban, including a ban on developing any programming "with reference to race." It restricts universities from opining on 16 topics related to race, gender, and identity or any related topics. Universities can't even discuss bias, including the term. Extremist Attacks on Accreditors Project 2025 has a plan to weaponize accreditation, forcing accreditors to remove any reference to DEI. The government is threatening to censor ideas by forcing this change in standards. WASC considered preemptively removing DEI language but backed off after pushback. PEN America is not concerned with DEI standards themselves but with government censorship of those standards. The Impact of Censorship Laws It takes years to reverse censorship laws, even if they are ultimately deemed unconstitutional. Once laws are put into place, universities have to comply until they are challenged. This can lead to the loss of programs, funding, and staff for years. The "Stop Woke Act" was ruled on in four and a half months, which was exceptionally fast. Institutional Neutrality and University Leadership Presidents are scared, and there are laws banning them from commenting on anything. Institutional neutrality is a good principle, but the judgment of what concerns the university's mission must be made internally. The government is inserting its judgment over the judgment of the people who are running the institution. Academic freedom is not possible if the leaders are under the direct ideological thumb of the government. University Presidents' Responses and Strategies: Managing Laws and Defending Ideological Independence Many presidents are doing the wrong thing, unilaterally disarming by preemptively closing DEI programs. It is a strategy that is ineffective when they are dealing with a national campaign, not local lawmakers. Presidents should be prudent about public statements but strategically defend the university's ideological independence. They should embrace cooperation with lawmakers on non-ideological issues (budgets, safety, etc.), but not on controlling ideas. Presidents need to use their limited leverage to protect the independence of the university. Faculty's Role in Protecting Free Speech Universities sometimes fail to share their strategies with faculty and restrict the faculty from expressing viewpoints that could help the institution. Faculty can be more outspoken than institutions, and using the "I'm not speaking for the university" disclaimer can be helpful. Universities should not comment on current events unless they directly affect the institution. Universities should not silence alternative viewpoints. Leaders should avoid inserting themselves in debates where there is no role for them. Free Expression and Institutional Mission Universities must welcome all viewpoints to allow for robust debate. This allows the university to state whether a view aligns with the values of the institution. They must defend the right for all to speak, but they must be able to freely express their own views on the matter. There is no constitutional exception for hate speech, only incitement to violence. Champions of Higher Education PEN America has created the Champions of Higher Education, which is a group of over 300 former college presidents who speak out against these laws and attacks. It is important to protect all kinds of speech on campus, as well as to maintain a safe campus environment. Four Takeaways for University Presidents and Boards "Don't do the censors work for them." "Don't comply in advance." "Promote the values of free expression, no matter what is happening in the country." Train all members of the university community in how free expression works. Final Thoughts Dr. Young's insights highlight the serious and growing threats to academic freedom in the U.S. The interview reveals the complex strategies used by those attempting to censor higher education, the challenges faced by university leaders, and the importance of actively defending free expression. PEN America's work is presented as a crucial effort to protect the fundamental principles of higher education as a place for diverse viewpoints and robust debate. Read the transcript on our website: https://changinghighered.com/censorship-in-higher-education-a-pen-america-perspective/ #HigherEducation #Censorship #Project2025   About Our Guest Jeremy C. Young is the Freedom to Learn Program Director at PEN America, where he leads efforts to fight government censorship in higher education institutions. He directs PEN America's work on educational gag orders, the Champions of Higher Education initiative, and an expanding network of coalitions to mobilize support for professors and teachers. A former history professor, Young holds a Ph.D. in U.S. history from Indiana University and is the author of The Age of Charisma: Leaders, Followers, and Emotions in American Society, 1870-1940 (Cambridge University Press, 2017).   About the Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton is the founder, CEO, and Principal Consultant at The Change Leader, Inc. A highly sought-after higher education consultant with 20+ years of experience, Dr. McNaughton works with leadership, management, and boards of both U.S. and international institutions. His expertise spans key areas, including accreditation, governance, strategic planning, presidential onboarding, mergers, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. Dr. McNaughton's approach combines a holistic methodology with a deep understanding of the contemporary and evolving challenges facing higher education institutions worldwide to ensure his clients succeed in their mission.  

Send us a textJennifer Clement is President Emerita of the human rights and freedom of expression organization PEN International and the only woman to hold the office of President (2015-2021) since the organization was founded in 1921. Under her leadership, the groundbreaking PEN International Women's Manifesto and The Democracy of the Imagination Manifesto were created. As President of PEN Mexico (2009-2012), Clement was instrumental in changing the law to make the crime of killing a journalist a federal crime. Clement is the author of the novels A True Story Based on Lies, The Poison That Fascinates, Prayers for the Stolen, Gun Love, and Stormy People, as well as several poetry books, including Poems and Errors, published by Kaunitz-Olsson in Sweden.  Clement also wrote the acclaimed memoirs Widow Basquiat on New York City in the early 1980s and the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, which NPR named the best book of 2015 in seven different categories, and The Promised Party on her life in Mexico City and New York. Clement's books have been translated into 38 languages and have covered topics such as the stealing of little girls in Mexico, the effects of gun violence, and the trafficking of guns into Mexico and Central America, as well as writing about her life in the art worlds of Mexico and New York.Clement is the recipient of Guggenheim, NEA, MacDowell, and Santa Maddalena Fellowships, and her books have twice been a New York Times Editor's Choice Book. Prayers for the Stolen was the recipient of the Grand Prix des Lectrices Lyceenes de ELLE(sponsored by ELLE Magazine, the French Ministry of Education and the Maison des écrivains et de la littérature)  and a New Statesman Book of the Year, picked by the Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro. Gun Love was an Oprah Book Club Selection, National Book Award, and Aspen Words Literary Prize finalist.  Among other publications, Time magazine named it one of the top 10 books of 2018.  At NYU, she was the commencement speaker for the Gallatin graduates 2017 and gave the Lectio Magistralis in Florence, Italy, for the Premio Gregor von Rezzori. Clement is a member of Mexico's prestigious Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte. For Clement's work in human rights, she was awarded the HIP Award for contribution to Latino communities by the Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP) Organization, and she was also the recipient of the Sara Curry Humanitarian Award. Most recently, she was given the 2023 Freedom of Expression Honorary title on World Press Day by Brussels University Alliance VUB and ULB in partnership with the European Commission, European Endowment for Democracy, and UNESCO, among others. Other laureates include Svetlana Alexievich, Zhang Zhan, Ahmet Altan, Daphne Caruana Galizia, and Raif Badawi. Jennifer Clement was raised in Mexico, where she lives. She and her sister Barbara Sibley founded and directed the San Miguel Poetry Week. Clement has a double major in anthropology and English Literature from New York University (Gallatin) and an MFA from the University of Southern Maine (Stonecoast). She was named a Distinguished Alumna by the Kingswood Cranbrook School.Jennifer ClementThe Promised Party, Jennifer ClementA ManSupport the showThe Bookshop PodcastMandy Jackson-BeverlySocial Media Links

Poliţia din Georgia a eliberat în forță, marți dimineață, o zonă din centrul capitalei Tbilisi ocupată încă de duminică de protestatari  care acuză fraudarea rezultatelor de la ultimele alegeri parlamentare, transmite postul Europa Liberă, secțiunea în limba georgiană. Un număr mare de poliţişti a intervenit pentru a înlătura corturile şi barierele construite în intersecţia aglomerată din centrul capitalei Tbilisi începând de duminica trecută, scrie sursa citată.Polițiștii au folosit gaze lacrimogene pentru dispersarea manifestanților, iar mai multe persoane au fost reținute.În zona Universității din Tbilisi, protestatarii au ridicat, începând din 17 noiembrie, corturi și au blocat circulația.Forțele de poliție au sosit în jurul orei șapte dimineața, pe 19 noiembrie. Ministerul de Interne din Georgia a transmis că legea cu privire la întruniri și manifestări nu permite blocarea carosabilului decât dacă acest lucru este impus de numărul mare al participanților la adunare.Poliția a confiscat corturile și i-a scos cu forța pe manifestanți din piață. Zece dintre aceștia au fost arestați preventiv. Nu s-au înregistrat victime.Acțiunea de blocare a zonei centrale a capitalei de către opoziție a fost declanșată după ce, la 16 noiembrie, Comisia Electorală a aprobat oficial protocolul prin care alegerile parlamentare din 26 octombrie au fost câștigate de partidul Visul georgian (pro-rus) cu 53,93% din voturile exprimate. Rezultatele nu au fost recunoascute de nici un alt partid care a participat la alegeri, în afară de Visul Georgian.Scrutinul electoral din 26 octombrie a stârnit un val de reacții critice la nivel internațional. Liderii occidentali s-au referit la rapoartele observatorilor care citau nereguli din perioada preelectorală și din ziua votării. Banca Națională a R Moldova se aliniază normelor europeneBanca Națională a Moldovei este angajată ferm în procesul de aderare la UE și va activa conform regulilor europene, a declarat guvernatoarea BNM Anca Dragu, după întrevederea pe care a avut-o recent la Chișinău cu  Jānis Mažeiks, ambasadorul Comisiei europene în R Moldova, scrie platforma de știri deschide.md.În cadrul întrevederii au fost subliniate progresele înregistrate în procesul de aderare la Sistemul Unic de Plăți în Euro (SEPA), precum și concluziile și principale ale Raportului de extindere al UE pentru anul 2024 privind Republica Moldova.Guvernatoarea BNM a precizat că reprezentanții Băncii Naționale a Moldovei (BNM) și ai altor instituții din Republica Moldova au participat recent la sesiunile de screening bilateral, care reprezintă o etapă a negocierilor de aderare la UE.Pregătirea dosarului de aderare a Republicii Moldova la Sistemul Unic de Plăți în Euro, care a fost înaintat spre evaluare către Consiliul European al Plăților la data de 30 ianuarie 2024, s-a realizat cu sprijinul proiectului Twinning finanțat de Uniunea Europeană, de care Banca Națională a Moldovei a beneficiat în perioada octombrie 2021- aprilie 2024, amintește sursa citată. ”Săptămâna scaunelor goale” la KievÎn piața Sfânta Sofia din Kiev a avut loc recent ”Săptămâna scaunelor goale”, o manifestație de susținere a tuturor jurnaliștilor, scriitorilor, activiștilor culturali și militanților pentru drepturile omului care sunt în continuare ținuți în captivitate în Rusia, condamnați de tribunale rusești sau dispăruți, transmite publicația ucraineană Krym.Acțiunea a fost organizată de filiala ucraineană a Centrului PEN International și de Centrul pentru libertăți civile.La inițiativa PEN International, în fiecare an la 15 noiembrie, în întreaga lume este celebrată Ziua scriitorilor încarcerați, numită și ”Empty Chair Day” (Ziua scaunului gol), încă de la sfârșitul anilor 1980.Începând din 2018, PEN Ucraina, în colaborare cu centrul pentru Libertăți civile, susține această acțiune cu scopul de a le aminti tuturor ucrainenilor, dar și lumii întregi, de toți scriitorii, artiștii și oamenii de cultură care, din cauza agresiunii rusești, nu mai pot trăi în libertate.Printre invitații ediției din acest an s-a aflat și Oleksandra Barkova, sora artistului Bohdan Ziza, din Crimeea, condamnat la 15 ani de închisoare de un tribunal rus în iunie 2023, Maryna Oleksandrovych, soția poetului Mykola Leonovych, dispărut în aprilie 2023 pe frontul de la Avdiïvka; Ivan Androusiak, scriitor și traducător, dispărut pe front în 2022 și alții.Potrivit datelor Institutului pentru mass-media din Ucraina, cel puțin 30 de jurnaliști și alți oameni de cultură sunt în prezent în închisoare. De asemenea, Centrul pentru libertăți civile raportează că cel puțin 7000 de civili ucraineni sunt deținuți în prezent în mod ilegal în Rusia sau în teritoriile ucrainene ocupate ilegal. Au contribuit la redactarea Revistei presei Europa Plus:Salome Sulakauri - Georgia; Crina Plăcintă - R Moldova; Inna Omeltchenko - Ucraina Europa Plus este un proiect RFI România realizat în parteneriat cu Agenția Universitară a Francofoniei 

On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Ranjit Hoskote, poet, translator, art critic, and curator. Together they discuss Bombay's political and cultural milieu in the 1980s and 90s, from which Ranjit began to experiment with art making, artistic and curatorial responses to an emergent neo-colonial Indian state. They also discuss the crisis of cultural politics, Ranjit's poetic responses to humanity's demise in this moment of ecological crisis, and the promise he sees in interstitial spaces. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/249-ranjit-hoskote.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/249-ranjit-hoskote.html Resources: Ranjit's linktree: https://linktr.ee/rhoskote Icelight: https://www.weslpress.org/9780819500557/icelight/ Hunchprose: https://www.penguin.co.in/book/hunchprose/ Jonahwhale: https://www.penguin.co.in/book/jonahwhale/ PEN International: https://www.pen-international.org/ Bio: Ranjit Hoskote is an Indian poet, theorist, and curator whose influential work centres on the complex history and presence of cultural pluralism from the local to the global. His eight books of poetry—including Icelight (2022), Jonahwhale (2018), and a translation of a fourteenth-century Kashmiri mystic-poet, I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Dĕd (2011)—engage with themes of identity, displacement, and transformation through time. His acclaimed 2012 book Confluences: Forgotten Histories between East and West (with Ilija Trojanow) traced the rich history of intercultural and interreligious encounter that has shaped—and continues to shape—the contemporary world. Hoskote has curated more than 50 showcases of Indian and global art over the past three decades, including India's first national pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Cite this episode: Chicago Style Johal, Am. “The Politics of Art — with Ranjit Hoskote.” Below the Radar, SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, September 10, 2024. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/249-ranjit-hoskote.html.

THE PROMISED PARTY. Jennifer Clement is the President Emerita of PEN International and the author of multiple books, including Widow Basquiat and Gun Love. The recipient of many awards, her books have twice been a New York Times Editor's Choice. Under her leadership at PEN International, and being the only woman elected since the organization was founded in 1921, the groundbreaking PEN International Women's Manifesto and The Democracy of the Imagination Manifesto were created. As President of PEN Mexico (2009-2012), Clement was instrumental in changing the law to make killing a journalist a federal crime. “The book is fragmentary in the sense that it is written in very short chapters.  It is also the story of how I became a writer and a tale of two cities.“ “I felt it was very important that PEN International, the largest and oldest writers' organisation, defend the right for writers to use their imaginations and be who you are not.“ “The gun shot low.”

In 1993, Ma Thida was sentenced to 20 years in prison for her support of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy and for ‘endangering public peace, having contact with illegal organisations, and distributing unlawful literature'. Released from prison in 1999, Thida's advocacy for freedom of expression continues unabated as Chair of PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee and as a current fellow in the Writers-in-Exile Programme of PEN Germany. Earlier this month, Ma Thida appeared at The Wheeler Centre in conversation with writer, essayist and academic Michelle Aung Thin. Together, they discussed the current political situation in Myanmar, Thida's activism and survival of the harsh conditions of Insein Prison, and her ongoing dedication to freedom of expression. The event was recorded on Thursday 6 June 2024 at The Wheeler Centre.It was presented in partnership with PEN Melbourne and supported by RMIT Culture. Featured music is 'No One There' by Ava Low.Support the Wheeler Centre: https://www.wheelercentre.com/support-us/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Ocean House owner, actor, and bestselling author Deborah Goodrich Royce for a conversation with New York Times bestselling authors and mother/son duo Elliott Ackerman and Joanna Leedom-Ackerman. They discuss their books: Joanne Leedom-Ackerman's The Far Side of the Desert and Elliott Ackerman's 2054. About the Authors:  Elliot Ackerman is the author of the novels Halcyon, Red Dress in Black and White, Waiting for Eden, Dark at the Crossing, Green on Blue, and the memoirs The Fifth Act and Places and Names. His books have been nominated for numerous awards, including the National Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal in fiction and nonfiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a Marine veteran, having served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. About 2054: From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive work of speculative fiction set twenty years further in the future, at a moment when a radical leap forward in artificial intelligence combines with America's violent partisan divide to create an existential threat to the country, and the world It is twenty years after the catastrophic war between the United States and China that brought down the old American political order. A new party has emerged in the US, holding power for over a decade. Efforts to cement its grip have resulted in mounting violent resistance. The American president has control of the media but is beginning to lose control of the streets. Many fear he'll stop at nothing to remain in the White House. Suddenly, he collapses in the middle of an address to the nation. After an initial flurry of misinformation, the administration reluctantly announces his death. A cover-up ensues, conspiracy theories abound, and the country descends into a new type of civil war. A handful of elite actors from the worlds of computer science, intelligence, and business have a fairly good idea of what happened. All signs point to a profound breakthrough in AI, of which the remote assassination of an American president is hardly the most game-changing ramification. The trail leads to an outpost in the Amazon rainforest, the last known whereabouts of the tech visionary who predicted this breakthrough. As some of the world's great powers, old and new, state and nonstate alike, struggle to outmaneuver one another in this new Great Game of scientific discovery, the outcome becomes entangled with the fate of American democracy. Combining a deep understanding of AI, biotech, and the possibility of a coming Singularity, along with their signature geopolitical sophistication, Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis have once again written a visionary work. 2054 is a novel that reads like a thriller, even as it demands that we consider the trajectory of our society and its potentially calamitous destination. Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is a novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Her works of fiction include Burning Distance, The Dark Path to the River, and No Marble Angels. She has published PEN Journeys: Memoir of Literature on the Line and was the editor for The Journey of Liu Xiaobo: From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate. Former International Secretary of PEN International, she is a Vice President of PEN International and a former board member and Vice President of PEN American Center. She serves on the boards of Refugees International, the International Center for Journalists, the American Writers Museum, and Words Without Borders and is an emeritus director of Poets and Writers, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, and Human Rights Watch and an emeritus trustee of Brown University and Johns Hopkins University. Joanne is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Texas Institute of Letters. A former The Christian Science Monitor reporter, Joanne has taught writing at New York University, City University of New York, Occidental College, and the University of California at Los Angeles extension. About The Far Side of the Desert: A terrorist attack—a kidnapping—the ultimate vacation gone wrong Sisters Samantha and Monte Waters are vacationing together in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, enjoying a festival and planning to meet with their brother, Cal—but the idyllic plans are short-lived. When terrorists' attacks rock the city around them, Monte, a U.S. foreign service officer, and Samantha, an international television correspondent, are separated, and one of them is whisked away in the frenzy. The family mobilizes, using all their contacts to try to find their missing sister, but to no avail. She has vanished. As time presses on, the outlook darkens. Can she be found, or is she a lost cause? And, even if she returns, will the damage to her and those around her be irreparable? Moving from Spain to Washington to Morocco to Gibraltar to the Sahara Desert, The Far Side of the Desert is a family drama and political thriller that explores links of terrorism, crime, and financial manipulation, revealing the grace that ultimately foils destruction.  

Designer Harry Pearce from Pentagram joins communications specialist Sue Keogh to talk about the visual identities he's developed for V&A South Kensington, Liberty and Moth drinks – and why brand guidelines are critical in keeping everything beautifully consistent across print, packaging and digital formats. We also take a look at NASA, and how their Graphic Standards Manual shows the brand evolution from a meatball...to a worm. If you walk through the British supermarket Waitrose or a major department store like John Lewis or Liberty London…Or if you visit a world-class gallery like the V&A South Kensington….or pour yourself a cocktail from Moth drinks in its beautifully textured tin...you'll see Harry Pearce's work.He's a graphic designer from celebrated design studio Pentagram, a collective of partners worldwide, formed in 1972, who are behind the brand identities for names you might just recognise – like Channel 4, Pink Floyd Records, Reddit, Natural History Museum, Rolls Royce…it just goes on and on!You'll see beautiful examples on the portfolio pages on their website, along with the brand guidelines that underpin all this striking work and hearing Harry explain how he developed the visual language for Liberty's new line of gender neutral fragrances LBTY.And in this episode you'll find out why brand guidelines exist, why they're important, or what the damage can be if we don't stick to them!We'll also take a look at NASA and how their brand has moved from a meatball...to a worm. And the guidelines that helps everyone get it right!Show notesHarry works alongside so many creative geniuses on these projects, including designer and Pentagram partner Marina Willer, who created the Young V&A identity work. Writers on the overall V&A project were Naresh Ramchandani and Ashley Johnson.Creative Review article on the new V&A Museum branding and visual identityPentagram case study: Liberty LBTYPentagram case study: V&A South KensingtonHarry's bio on PentagramNASA Graphics Standards Manual from 1975NASA Brand CenterNASA Brand Guidelines 2024 About Harry PearceHaving studied at Canterbury College of Art, Harry co-founded and ran Lippa Pearce Design before becoming a Pentagram Partner in 2006.He has devised identities, installations, posters, packaging, books for; Liberty, Thames & Hudson, Guggenheim, Royal Academy of Arts, Phaidon Press, Pink Floyd, Shakespeare's Globe, PEN International, and the UN. Since 1993 he has been an active member of the advisory board for WITNESS.Books; Typographic Conundrums and Eating with the Eyes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

1,300 women met in The Hague in 1915 to discuss votes for women, human rights and the importance of peace. Jennifer Thomson shares her research into how this fed into the development of the women's movement and fed into organisations like the United Nations. Storm Jameson (1891-1986) was President of the English branch of PEN International during WWII and helped many writers flee war torn Europe. Katie Cooper has been reading her newly re-published autobiography Journey From the North. Sarah Maldoror ( 1929 −2020) is best known for her feature film Sambizanga which looked at the 1961–1974 war in Angola. New Generation Thinkers Alex Reza and Sarah Jilani discuss her film-making career. Shahidha Bari hosts.Producer: Ruth WattsYou can find a collection of Free Thinking episodes exploring Women in the World from Julian of Norwich to Hilma Af Klint, women warriors to stepmothers, landladies and divas.

My guest today has lived, well, a life like no other. The writer Jennifer Clement grew up in 1960s Mexico, at the tail end of the Mexican Golden Age, next door to the former home and extended family of seminal artist Frida Kahlo. As a teenager she moved to New York, where she inhabited the artistic downtown world of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Andy Warhol. She was - and still is - a magnet for the creative and surreal.But Mexico had her heart. Since returning to Mexico City, she has written many books, including the cult classic Widow Basquiat and Prayers for the Stolen which became an award-winning Netflix film. Jennifer was also the first and only woman president of the writers human rights organisation PEN International in its 100+ year history.In her memoir, The Promised Party, Jennifer looks back at an extraordinary youth spent with artists and revolutionaries, and examines the way it shaped her.Jennifer joined me from her home in Mexico City to talk about playing in Frida Kahlo's bathtub and why Kahlo's art speaks to so many women, why so much women's art is still sidelined, and how she developed a passion ethic not a work ethic. We also discussed rebellion, running away, the power of girlfriends, how acting on dreams can change your life and why her mother has been taking HRT for 50 (yes five oh) yearsIf you loved this episode, you might also like my conversations with Isabel Allende and Esther Freud.* You can buy all the books mentioned in this podcast at The Shift bookshop on Bookshop.org, including The Promised Party by Jennifer Clemenet and the book that inspired this podcast, The Shift: how I lost and found myself after 40 - and you can too, by me.* And if you'd like to support the work that goes into making this podcast and get a weekly newsletter plus loads more content including exclusive transcripts of the podcast, why not join The Shift community, come and have a look around at www.theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com• The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker is created and hosted by Sam Baker and edited by Juliette Nicholls @ Pineapple Audio Production. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it really does help other people find us. And let me know what you think on twitter @sambaker or instagram @theothersambaker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join the author of “The Promise Party: Kahlo, Basquiat & Me”, the read at the top of the charts in the UK for 2024. Move into the writing world of Clement's poetic prose and lingering metaphors, a universe of layers and dimensions in pure motion. Listen to her talk about how the act of writing and someone reading at the other end can become a mystical experience and how her famous novels “Gun Love”, a New York Times Editor's Choice book, and “Prayers for the Stolen” became the turning point of her calling to become an activist for the sake of Freedom of Speech. World acclaimed poet Jennifer Clement, the only woman to be elected President Emerita of PEN International, since this celebrated international writer's organization was founded in London back in 1921, is a fascinating author whose books have been translated into 35 languages. Hers is an intensive universe, a connective point between the brutal, the beautiful and the infinite.

Frida Kahlo and Jean-Michel Basquiat are huge names from the world of art, but what must it have been like to hang out and grow up in their worlds? Author and poet Jennifer Clement knows all about it and has written about her fascinating life in new book, Promised Party: Kahlo, Basquiat & Me.In the memoir, Jennifer writes about her upbringing in a bohemian community in 1960s and 70s Mexico City, before moving to New York City as a dancer in the late 70s, and living through the counterculture scene of the 1980s. She chats to tocayo Jen, about her experiences, story-telling, posthumous fame, and the work she's undertaken as PEN International's ONLY woman president, to make sure women's voices are heard, and celebrated.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman used to teach writing at NYU and CCNY. Now she is a Vice President of PEN International and the author of a new political thriller. Book critic Joan Baum has this review.

Ein Post oder eine Unterschrift an der falschen Stelle – und schon ist man für die andere Seite diskreditiert. Die Frage, bist Du für die Palästinenser oder für Israel, spaltet die Kulturszene seit dem 7. Oktober. Die Findungskommission der Documenta Sixteen ist deshalb zurückgetreten, die Fotobiennale Mannheim/Ludwigshafen/Heidelberg abgesagt. Wie tief ist der Riss, der Künstler, Musikerinnen und Theaterleute trennt? Welche Folgen wird die Spaltung für die Kulturszene in Deutschland haben? Doris Maull diskutiert mit Elke Buhr – Chefredakteurin Monopol-Kunstmagazin; Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich – Kunsthistoriker; Regula Venske – Schriftstellerin und Ex-Generalsekretärin PEN-International

heute u.a. Kritik an Israel-Statements: Autorin Regula Venske tritt bei PEN International zurück; "Höhere Wesen befehlen": Sigmar Polke im Museum Morsbroich; "Das Gedächtnis der Töchter": Roman von Irene Langemann über das Schicksal der Russlanddeutschen; Gedicht. "Die Vögel singen im Regen am schönsten" von Sarah Kirsch; Krimitipps: "Groll" von Gianrico Carofilio und "Hildur - die Spur im Fjord" von Satu Rämo. Moderation: Claudia Dichter. Von Claudia Dichter.

Astrid Böhmisch wird die neue Direktorin der Leipziger Buchmesse. Die Autorin Regula Venske tritt von ihrem Amt als Generalsekretärin des PEN International zurück. Der Blick in die Feuilletons des Tages mit Jörg Schieke.

Die Generalsekretärin des PEN International gibt ihr Amt aus Protest ab. Auslöser war eine Wortmeldung des Londoner PEN-Sekretariats zum Nahostkonflikt. Sie bei den Statements zu übergehen, schreit zum Himmel, sagt José Oliver, deutscher PEN-Präsident.Oliver, Joséwww.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, FazitDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

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Is ten years long or short in the life of a writer? Fiction writer and journalist Joanne Leedom-Ackerman shows us how her perspective on this has shifted. She offers us a prompt via Rainer Maria Rilke to get us thinking about our own writing lives and to get us to build narrative with what she describes as concentric circles in this Inspiration Takeover, a series of mini-episodes with different writers who offer us a little dose of inspiration. Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is a novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Her works of fiction include upcoming novel The Far Side of the Desert and also Burning Distance, The Dark Path to the River, and No Marble Angels. Her nonfiction book PEN Journeys: Memoir of Literature on the Line was recently published, and she is the senior editor and contributor to The Journey of Liu Xiaobo: From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate. She has also published fiction and essays in books and anthologies, including Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement; Remembering Arthur Miller; Snakes: An Anthology of Serpent Tales, Fiction and Poetry by Texas Women, the Bicentennial Collection of Texas Short Stories and Beyond Literacy. A reporter for The Christian Science Monitor early in her career, Joanne has won awards for her nonfiction and published articles in newspapers and magazines, including World Literature Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, GlobalPost, and others. Joanne is a Vice President of PEN International and the former International Secretary of PEN International and former Chair of International PEN's Writers in Prison Committee. She also serves on the boards of the International Center for Journalists, Refugees International, the American Writers Museum and Words Without Borders and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Edward R. Murrow Center at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the ICRW Leadership Council. She is a former board member and Vice President of PEN American Center and past President of PEN Center USA. She is an Emeritus Director of Poets and Writers, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and Human Rights Watch, where she served as Chair of the Asia Advisory Committee. She is an Emeritus Trustee of Johns Hopkins University and Brown University and has served on the Board of Trustees of Save the Children and the International Crisis Group.

A conversation with Burhan Sönmez, the author of the novel Stone and Shadow at FILIT 2023 International Festival of Literature and Translation Iași, Romania. Ediția din acest an a Festivalului Internațional de Literatură și Traducere Iași l-a avut ca invitat special pe scriitorul Burhan Sönmez. Născut în 1965, acesta a studiat Dreptul la Istanbul, unde a și profesat o vreme ca avocat pentru drepturile omului. A fost membru al Societății pentru Drepturile Omului (IHD) și fondator al Fundației pentru Cercetare Socială, Cultură și Artă (TAKSAV). În 1996 a fost grav rănit în timpul unui asalt al poliției turce și s-a refugiat pentru o perioadă mai lungă în Marea Britanie. În 2009 i-a apărut primul roman, Miazănoapte, urmat în 2011 de Păcate și inocenți. Cel de-al treilea roman, Istanbul Istanbul, publicat în 2015 (traducere la Editura Polirom, 2016), i-a adus EBRD Literature Prize în 2018. Păcate și inocenți a fost recompensat cu Premiul Sedat Simavi, una dintre cele mai prestigioase distincții literare din Turcia. Labirint, cel de-al patrulea roman, a fost publicat în 2018 (traducere în limba română în colecția „Anansi. World Fiction“ a Editurii Pandora M). Cărțile lui au fost traduse în 42 de limbi. În prezent, Burhan Sönmez își împarte viața între Cambridge și Istanbul, iar din 2021 este președintele PEN International. La FILIT, am discutat cu Burhan Sönmez despre romanul Piatră și umbră (2023, traducere de Veronica D. Niculescu în colecția "Anansi. World Fiction" a editurii Pandora M) și despre condiția actuală a scriitorului expus conflictelor și opresiunii de pretutindeni. (Cezar Gheorghe)   Foto de © Silviu Gheție

Burhan Sönmez este nu doar unul dintre cei mai importanți scriitori din Turcia de azi, el este și președintele PEN International. Am vorbit cu Burhan Sönmez despre originile sale kurde și relația cu limba turcă, despre revenirea la Istanbul după zece ani de exil în Marea Britanie, unde a ajuns grav rănit de forțele de poliție din Turcia, despre literatura lui dar și despre PEN International, reușitele și eșecurile acestei organizații în acțiunile sale de salvare a scriitorilor și jurnaliștilor aflați în închisoare în țări cu regimuri autoritare. Pe Burhan Sönmez l-am întîlnit la Festivalul Internațional de Literatură și Traducere Iași. Dintre cărțile lui, în limba română au apărut romanele „Istanbul Istanbul” (Editura Polirom, în traducerea Leilei Unal), „Labirint” (Editura Pandora M, în traducerea lui Adal Hanzade) și „Piatră și umbră” (Editura Pandora M, în traducerea Veronicăi D. Niculescu). Interviul cu Burhan Sönmez a fost tradus de Sorana Lupu.O emisiune de Adela Greceanu și Matei Martin  Un produs Radio România Cultural  

This week, writers Joanne Leedom-Ackerman and Sara Paretsky discuss their craft, the writing process, and the dangers of censorship and book bans. This conversation originally took place June 15, 2023 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum. This episode is presented in conjunction with Banned Books Week. Follow the link to learn more about this initiative from the American Library Association and see how you can take action to preserve open access to literature in your community. AWM PODCAST NETWORK HOME About the speakers: JOANNE LEEDOM-ACKERMAN is a novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Her works of fiction include Burning Distance and The Far Side of the Desert. She is editor of The Journey of Liu Xiaobo: From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate. A former reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, Joanne is a Vice President Emeritus and former International Secretary of PEN International. She serves on the boards of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, the International Center for Journalists, Words Without Borders and Refugees International. She is an emeritus board member of Poets and Writers and Human Rights Watch and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and PEN American Center, where she served as a trustee. She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Writers Museum. SARA PARETSKY revolutionized the mystery world in 1982 when she introduced V.I. Warshawski in Indemnity Only. By creating a detective with the grit and smarts to take on the mean streets, Paretsky challenged a genre in which women historically were vamps or victims. V.I. struck a chord with readers and critics; Indemnity Only was followed by twenty more V.I. novels. Paretsky detailed her journey from Kansas farm-girl to New York Times bestseller in her 2007 memoir, Writing in an Age of Silence, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. In addition, Paretsky has written two stand-alone novels, Ghost Country, and Bleeding Kansas, set in the part of rural Kansas where Paretsky grew up. She has published several short story collections, most recently Love & Other Crimes, and has edited numerous other anthologies.

Grace A. Musila asks Hugo ka Canham about his book Riotous Deathscapes. They explore riotous methods, rural Mpondoland, precarity, storytelling, death and life as well as the natural and ancestral worlds. Grace A. Musila is a Professor in the Department of African Literature at Wits University and the author of A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour: Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder (James Currey, 2015). She is the editor of Wangari Maathai's Registers of Freedom (HSRC Press, 2019) and the Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture (Routledge, 2022). Hugo ka Canham is a Professor at the Institute for Social and Health Sciences at UNISA. He is the co-editor of Black Academic Voices: The South African Experience (HSRC Press, 2019). His latest book is Riotous Deathscapes (Duke University Press & Wits University Press, 2023). In this episode we are in solidarity with academic, human rights lawyer and author Dr. Mohammed Al-Roken. We join PEN International and call on the authorities in the United Arab Emirates to free him. You can read more about his case here: https://www.pen-international.org/our-campaigns/day-of-the-imprisoned-writer-2021 As tributes to him, Hugo reads “Rain Falls on the Abstract World” by Gabeba Badperson and Grace reads from Dr Nawal El Saadawi's essay “Dissidence and Creativity”. This is the final episode of season nine. We're so grateful to all our brilliant participants, our listeners for your support, our producer Andri Burnett, our executive producer Lara Buxbaum as well as Bongani Kona, Nadia Davids, Yewande Omotoso, Kate Highman and the whole of the board of PEN South Africa. Thank you to the U.S. Embassy in South Africa for the grant which made the last eight Transatlantic Seasons of The Empty Chair Podcast possible.  We hope you'll spend time browsing through our archives. All our episodes are freely available on our website or wherever you get your podcasts.  This podcast series is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Embassy in South Africa to promote open conversation and highlight shared histories.

Bongani Kona interviews Gabeba Baderoon and Roger Reeves about their books The History of Intimacy and Dark Days: Fugitive Essays. They remember early transformative encounters with literature and their beginnings as writers. They also confer about essays, poetry, interior lives, family and their current projects. Roger reads from his essay “Reading Fire, Reading the Stars” in addition to his poems “Grendel” and “After the Funeral”. Gabeba reads her poems “Give” and “The Flats”. Bongani Kona is a writer, editor and lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of the Western Cape. He is a board member of PEN South Africa. Gabeba Baderoon is the author of Regarding Muslims: from Slavery to Post-apartheid  as well as the poetry collections, The Dream in the Next Body, A Hundred Silences and The History of Intimacy. She's the co-editor, with Desiree Lewis, of the essay collection, Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa. Gabeba is an Associate Professor in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, African Studies and Comparative Literature at Penn State University. Roger Reeves is the author of two poetry collections, King Me and Best Barbarian. Dark Days: Fugitive Essays was published by Graywolf Press in 2023. His essays have appeared in Granta, The Virginia Quarterly, The Yale Review and elsewhere. Roger is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. In this episode we are in solidarity with the collective case of 12 Eritrean writers and journalists imprisoned in 2001. They are: Dawit Isaak, Fessehaye ‘Joshua' Yohannes, Seyoum Tsehaye, Said Abdelkadir, Methanie Haile, Temesegen Ghebreyesuy, Yousif Mohammed Ali, Amanuel Asrat, Dawit Habtemichael, Matheos Habteab, Sahle ‘Wedi-ltay' Tsefezab and Said Idris ‘Abu Are'. We join PEN International, PEN Eritrea in Exile and PEN centres around the world in calling on the authorities in Eritrea to free them. You can read more about their case here: https://www.pen-international.org/our-campaigns/day-of-the-imprisoned-writer-2021 As tributes to them, Gabeba reads “All You Who Sleep Tonight” by Vikram Seth and Roger reads “Preliminary Question” by Aimé Césaire (translated by A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman). This podcast series is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Embassy in South Africa to promote open conversation and highlight shared histories.

A conversation with Renowned Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina who has stopped writing novels.  She says,“in 2022, it became impossible to write fiction (because) reality is so much more intense; it is impossible to invent stories anymore.” She now works as a war crimes researcher with the organization TRUTH HOUNDS.In the Izium region, Victoria Amelina uncovered the war diary of fellow Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Vakulenko, who buried the diary before he was killed by the occupying forces. She found it with the aid of his father in the backyard of the family home.Amelina now also keeps a journal of the work being done by war-crimes researchers and she has become a successful poet published by papers such as the New York Times, and various anthologies.Victoria Amelina has been a celebrated Ukrainian author of novels and children's books since 2015, when she won several literary awards for her first book, The Fall Syndrome, about the events at Maidan in 2014. In 2017 her novel Doms Dream Kingdom was released and was shortlisted for the prestigious LitAkcent literary award and the European Union Prize for Literature in 2019. Amelina is a member of PEN International.

Embark on an enthralling journey with this captivating episode as we unravel the complex world of Joanne Leedom-Ackerman's thrilling novel, "Burning Distance." Spanning continents and decades, the book weaves a tale of love and the international arms trade. Discover the fascinating insights and experiences that informed Ackerman's writing, including her time living in London, interviewing a former minister of Saddam Hussein, and her work with PEN International. Aspiring writers will also benefit from her wisdom on perseverance, motivation, and navigating the publishing industry. Don't miss this exploration of love in a tumultuous world and the challenges of staying true to one's passion amidst political and personal upheaval.

We speak to Turkish artist, poet, and activist Ege Dündar about his experience of forced exile following the persecution of his father in Turkey, his debut poetry book, All These Things Aren't Really Lost, and how solidarity acts as ‘medicine' against oppression.Thank you to Ege for joining us for this episode. If you are enjoying The Art Persists Podcast, please FOLLOW, RATE, and SHARE. Only with your help can these stories be heard.Ege Dündar is a 28 year old writer and activist from Turkey. He has been working at PEN International campaigning for free expression for nearly 7 years across various projects and positions, most recently as Youth Engagement Coordinator. His debut poetry book All These Things Aren't Really Lost is due out from Black Spring Press soon. He produced a report for German foundation Körber Stiftung on the state of Exile Media in Europe. Ege was also contributor in our latest issue, Beyond Resilience.Find out more about Ege: https://www.instagram.com/egedundar

PEN International, a worldwide association of writers, presented its 2022 CASE LIST, which documents 115 cases of writers facing harassment, arrest, violence and even death. This episode is a recording of an online panel of writers and activists discussing the situation surrounding freedom of expression globally, on the occasion of the publication of the 2022 Case list. The discussion focuses on cases in Ukraine under Russian attack, Egypt, Myanmar, and Nicaragua. Participants include Ma Thida (writer, activist from Myanmar, and Chair of PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee), Ahdaf Soueif (writer and activist from Egypt), Volodymyr Yermolenko (philosopher, essayist, editor in chief of UkraineWorld, and President of PEN Ukraine), and Gioconda Belli (Nicaraguan poet and activist). The event was moderated by Tanja Tuma, PEN International Board Member and President of PEN Slovenia. It was held on March 21st. 2022 Case list: https://www.pen-international.org/news/impunity-reigns-writers-resist-pen-international-case-list-2022

Is there liberal opposition to what is going on, even in a more diverse India with a raucous democratic tradition? Synopsis: Each fourth Friday of the month, The Straits Times' US bureau chief Nirmal Ghosh presents an Asian perspective of the biggest global talking points with expert guests.  In this episode, we discuss how and why, across the complex region of South Asia, majorities are convinced that minorities are a threat. South Asia is a region of some two billion, but right-wing politics and religious majoritarianism, the arms of the state and the media, are coming together to threaten democracy and the health and longevity of states. The politics of hate in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka is fuelling, and feeds off, religious majoritarianism. Nirmal Ghosh hosts Farahnaz Ispahani, a former journalist, former member of Pakistan's parliament, and currently a senior fellow at the Religious Freedom Institute in Washington DC, and Salil Tripathi, author, journalist and member of the Board of PEN International.   Highlights (click/tap above): 1:40 Why Pakistan is the worst among "religious majoritarian states" in South Asia; add to that a "nuclear-armed Pakistan with an economy in free fall" 3:40 On the history and similar trajectory in Bangladesh and also, how "the liberal Pakistani used to look up to India for its democratic roots and tradition, when now… if you're Muslim, you can't be safe in India." 9:05 How the religious right and the political right have come together to make the majority feel they're under threat from the minority 12:16 How this trend is happening, as our guest expert offers daily life examples in India 17:15 On how the media in these South Asia countries could amplify divisions Produced by: Nirmal Ghosh (nirmal@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis, Hadyu Rahim and Fa'izah Sani Edited by: Hadyu Rahim and Fa'izah Sani Follow Asian Insider with Nirmal Ghosh every fourth Friday of the month: Channel: https://str.sg/JWa7 Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWa8 Google Podcasts: https://str.sg/wQsB  Spotify: https://str.sg/JWaX SPH Awedio app: https://www.awedio.sg/ Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Follow Nirmal Ghosh on Twitter: https://str.sg/JD7r Read Nirmal Ghosh's stories: https://str.sg/JbxG Register for Asian Insider newsletter: https://str.sg/stnewsletters Asian Insider videos: https://str.sg/wdcC --- Discover more ST podcast channels: In Your Opinion: https://str.sg/w7Qt Asian Insider: https://str.sg/JWa7 Health Check: https://str.sg/JWaN Green Pulse: https://str.sg/JWaf Your Money & Career: https://str.sg/wB2m ST Sports Talk: https://str.sg/JWRE #PopVultures: https://str.sg/JWad Music Lab: https://str.sg/w9TX Discover ST Podcasts: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Discover BT Podcasts: https://bt.sg/pcPL --- Special edition series: True Crimes Of Asia (new): https://str.sg/i44T The Unsolved Mysteries of South-east Asia (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuZ2 Invisible Asia (9 eps): https://str.sg/wuZn Stop Scams (10 eps): https://str.sg/wuZB Singapore's War On Covid (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuJa --- Follow our shows then, if you like short, practical podcasts! #STAsianInsiderSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is there liberal opposition to what is going on, even in a more diverse India with a raucous democratic tradition? Synopsis: Each fourth Friday of the month, The Straits Times' US bureau chief Nirmal Ghosh presents an Asian perspective of the biggest global talking points with expert guests.  In this episode, we discuss how and why, across the complex region of South Asia, majorities are convinced that minorities are a threat. South Asia is a region of some two billion, but right-wing politics and religious majoritarianism, the arms of the state and the media, are coming together to threaten democracy and the health and longevity of states. The politics of hate in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka is fuelling, and feeds off, religious majoritarianism. Nirmal Ghosh hosts Farahnaz Ispahani, a former journalist, former member of Pakistan's parliament, and currently a senior fellow at the Religious Freedom Institute in Washington DC, and Salil Tripathi, author, journalist and member of the Board of PEN International.   Highlights (click/tap above): 1:40 Why Pakistan is the worst among "religious majoritarian states" in South Asia; add to that a "nuclear-armed Pakistan with an economy in free fall" 3:40 On the history and similar trajectory in Bangladesh and also, how "the liberal Pakistani used to look up to India for its democratic roots and tradition, when now… if you're Muslim, you can't be safe in India." 9:05 How the religious right and the political right have come together to make the majority feel they're under threat from the minority 12:16 How this trend is happening, as our guest expert offers daily life examples in India 17:15 On how the media in these South Asia countries could amplify divisions Produced by: Nirmal Ghosh (nirmal@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis, Hadyu Rahim and Fa'izah Sani Edited by: Hadyu Rahim and Fa'izah Sani Follow Asian Insider with Nirmal Ghosh every fourth Friday of the month: Channel: https://str.sg/JWa7 Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWa8 Google Podcasts: https://str.sg/wQsB  Spotify: https://str.sg/JWaX SPH Awedio app: https://www.awedio.sg/ Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Follow Nirmal Ghosh on Twitter: https://str.sg/JD7r Read Nirmal Ghosh's stories: https://str.sg/JbxG Register for Asian Insider newsletter: https://str.sg/stnewsletters Asian Insider videos: https://str.sg/wdcC --- Discover more ST podcast channels: In Your Opinion: https://str.sg/w7Qt Asian Insider: https://str.sg/JWa7 Health Check: https://str.sg/JWaN Green Pulse: https://str.sg/JWaf Your Money & Career: https://str.sg/wB2m ST Sports Talk: https://str.sg/JWRE #PopVultures: https://str.sg/JWad Music Lab: https://str.sg/w9TX Discover ST Podcasts: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Discover BT Podcasts: https://bt.sg/pcPL --- Special edition series: True Crimes Of Asia (new): https://str.sg/i44T The Unsolved Mysteries of South-east Asia (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuZ2 Invisible Asia (9 eps): https://str.sg/wuZn Stop Scams (10 eps): https://str.sg/wuZB Singapore's War On Covid (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuJa --- Follow our shows then, if you like short, practical podcasts! #STAsianInsiderSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is there liberal opposition to what is going on, even in a more diverse India with a raucous democratic tradition? Synopsis: Each fourth Friday of the month, The Straits Times' US bureau chief Nirmal Ghosh presents an Asian perspective of the biggest global talking points with expert guests.  In this episode, we discuss how and why, across the complex region of South Asia, majorities are convinced that minorities are a threat. South Asia is a region of some two billion, but right-wing politics and religious majoritarianism, the arms of the state and the media, are coming together to threaten democracy and the health and longevity of states. The politics of hate in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka is fuelling, and feeds off, religious majoritarianism. Nirmal Ghosh hosts Farahnaz Ispahani, a former journalist, former member of Pakistan's parliament, and currently a senior fellow at the Religious Freedom Institute in Washington DC, and Salil Tripathi, author, journalist and member of the Board of PEN International.   Highlights (click/tap above): 1:40 Why Pakistan is the worst among "religious majoritarian states" in South Asia; add to that a "nuclear-armed Pakistan with an economy in free fall" 3:40 On the history and similar trajectory in Bangladesh and also, how "the liberal Pakistani used to look up to India for its democratic roots and tradition, when now… if you're Muslim, you can't be safe in India." 9:05 How the religious right and the political right have come together to make the majority feel they're under threat from the minority 12:16 How this trend is happening, as our guest expert offers daily life examples in India 17:15 On how the media in these South Asia countries could amplify divisions Produced by: Nirmal Ghosh (nirmal@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis, Hadyu Rahim and Fa'izah Sani Edited by: Hadyu Rahim and Fa'izah Sani Follow Asian Insider with Nirmal Ghosh every fourth Friday of the month: Channel: https://str.sg/JWa7 Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWa8 Google Podcasts: https://str.sg/wQsB  Spotify: https://str.sg/JWaX SPH Awedio app: https://www.awedio.sg/ Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Follow Nirmal Ghosh on Twitter: https://str.sg/JD7r Read Nirmal Ghosh's stories: https://str.sg/JbxG Register for Asian Insider newsletter: https://str.sg/stnewsletters Asian Insider videos: https://str.sg/wdcC --- Discover more ST podcast channels: In Your Opinion: https://str.sg/w7Qt Asian Insider: https://str.sg/JWa7 Health Check: https://str.sg/JWaN Green Pulse: https://str.sg/JWaf Your Money & Career: https://str.sg/wB2m ST Sports Talk: https://str.sg/JWRE #PopVultures: https://str.sg/JWad Music Lab: https://str.sg/w9TX Discover ST Podcasts: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Discover BT Podcasts: https://bt.sg/pcPL --- Special edition series: True Crimes Of Asia (new): https://str.sg/i44T The Unsolved Mysteries of South-east Asia (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuZ2 Invisible Asia (9 eps): https://str.sg/wuZn Stop Scams (10 eps): https://str.sg/wuZB Singapore's War On Covid (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuJa --- Follow our shows then, if you like short, practical podcasts! #STAsianInsiderSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bias and discrimination are everywhere. It's something we as a society are generally trying to improve. But when it comes to solutions, there is nuance in terms of cultural and social context, personal perceptions, and privilege that can complicate matters.Join us as we speak with Raksha Kumar, an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker with a focus on land, forest, and human rights issues. We speak about Raksha's investigative work into the layered and complex issues of caste and sexism in India's tech industry, and elsewhere too.About Raksha Kumar Raksha Kumar is an award-winning journalist, with a focus on land and forest rights. Her work highlights human rights abuses by the State, thereby holding the powerful to account. Since 2011, she has reported from twelve countries across the world and a hundred districts in India for The New York Times, BBC, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, among others. Additionally, Kumar studied media freedoms in India in great detail and wrote reports for the Committee to Protect Journalists, the International Federation of Journalists, and PEN International.Raksha graduated from the Journalism School, Columbia University, and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Rights Law. She is also a documentary filmmaker and a Chevening Fellow and has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for Leadership Development.Show Notes (link)(00:02:11) Raksha's focus on human rights in journalism.(00:02:39) People are interesting, and each person matters.(00:05:03) The impetus for writing about sexism in India's tech industry.(00:05:11) Writing about caste in India.(00:05:47) India's caste system.(00:06:33) A court case in the US raising outside awareness to caste discrimination.(00:07:08) Equality Labs.(00:07:35) The case was covered in India, but there was no discourse around caste in the Indian tech industry.(00:09:22) When discrimination was raised in the investigation, gender kept coming up.(00:10:24) Everyone talks about gender discrimination in tech. What makes India different?(00:12:40) "Tech came with a promise of a flatter world."(00:13:12) The privilege of being blind to discrimination.(00:14:09) The implicit threat to remain silent for fear of repercussion.(00:15:14) The varied reasons for remaining silent, and the individual interpretations of discrimination.(00:16:52) Privilege and discrimination are not mutually exclusive.(00:18:19) Awareness of our individual privileges and the affect of our intersectionality.(00:20:50) Observations: There hasn't been any research in caste discrimination in the Indian tech sector, and the more you delve into gender discrimination the more layers there are to investigate.(00:23:56) The drivers behind a high percentage of women in tech in India.(00:25:03) An open economy and upward mobility.(00:28:45) The subconscious awareness of your career 'expiry' as a woman.(00:29:41) The two-body problem in a different context.(00:30:57) The issues aren't unique to tech, but the way they manifest can be.(00:32:40) Intense, and potentially exploitative, work environments.(00:32:51) Wrong paper, I meant: Becker, SO., Fernandes, A., Weichselbaumer, D., 'Discrimination in hiring based on potential and realized fertility: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment', Labour Economics, vol 59, 2019, pp 139-152.(00:34:10) What makes some of these issues uniquely tech.(00:37:22) Women's visibility.(00:38:56) The support structure around women and careers.(00:41:06) The need for bi-directional support.(00:43:04) Do you know how much work it takes to make something look...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry / Artist Podcast) features the amazing Karina Fiorini. Karina is a poet and an environmentalist of Maltese origin, now based in France. I started writing poetry and short stories at the age of ten and been campaigning in favour of a better environment for over sixteen years. Her poetry is marked by scraps of fragments, teasing rhythms and subtle colours, at times postmodern and minimalist. I am the founder and coordinator of the Luxembourg Poetry Group. In 2022, Habiba was highly commended by poet Joelle Taylor, judge for the Ledbury Poetry Competition. In 2021, the poem The Calling featured in PEN International and PEN Malta's A Poetry Memorial for Daphne Caruana Galizia. My poem Ruts placed third in The Mattia Family 15th International Poetry Competition in 2013. Twelve inky years received a special mention by the Welsh Poetry International Competition in 2018, whilst La Moselle was chosen as an editor's choice in the 2020 Hammond House International Literary Prize, awarded by the University Centre Grimsby. In 2020 I served as a judge for Stories of the Nature of Cities, New York. She has undertook a MSc in Sustainable Development at the Imperial College and SOAS Univeristy and a BA in Geography at the University of Malta. She is now now reading for a BA in English with Philosophy at the University of London – Goldsmiths and Birkbeck, whilst working on her first poetry collection. www.instagram.com/karinafiorinipoetry/ soundcloud.com/user-522234864 www.karinafiorini.com twitter.com/karinafiorini?lang=en-GB

**Who You will Hear**Guest: Esther Allen (Writer, translator. Professor at City University of New York)Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek)Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) Translation has long been an indispensable part of the world of publishing and literature.In this episode, we are joined by Esther Allen, writer, translator, and a professor at City University of New York.The conversation begins with Esther recounting how she crossed her line with Spanish and French in her early childhood and youthful years. She then explains to us, from the perspective of a literary scholar, the linguistic landscape in the context of globalization, the dynamics of English and other dominant languages, and the importance of language legacy and linguistic diversity. Many interesting topics are sprinkled throughout: the difficulty of transplanting humor to another language, the “terminal speakers” of an endangered language, how a language becomes an “invasive species,” and why and how to attribute value to a language we don't speak, etc. For more information about Esther and her translation work, please visit her website. If you'd like to go further into the world of translation, check out the 24 programs available through the online conference Translating the Future, which Esther co-curated with Allison Markin Powell at the Center for the Humanities at the City University of New York Graduate Center. And to enjoy a cornucopia of translated writing from across the globe, you're warmly invited to visit Words Without Borders.Tell us what is going on with your publishing projects or business on Twitter (@Klopotek_AG), LinkedIn, or email us at podcast@klopotek.com.  For more information about the Klopotek software solution, please write to info@klopotek.com, or register to receive emails from us on technology innovations & events from Klopotek.* The views, information, or opinions expressed in the program are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of Klopotek and its employees. It is the goal of Klopotek Publishing Radio to support cultural diversity, the exchange of opinions, and to create an environment where the conversation of a global publishing industry can thrive.

We are thrilled to bring you this special episode with Kurdish-Iranian journalist, writer, filmmaker and refugee advocate Behrouz Boochani. The episode includes conversations Kate had with Behrouz in Aotearoa at Verb Wellington and in Naarm, Melbourne ahead of his sold out event at The Wheeler Centre. At Behrouz's request, Kate also spoke to his translators and collaborators Omid Tofighian & Moones Mansoubi about how they work together, the making of the new book Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani and the current situation in Iran.  We feel very lucky to have had this opportunity to speak to Boochani, Tofighian & Mansoubi about their work to bring the stories of Manus Prison to the global community.  Associate Professor Behrouz Boochani graduated from Tarbiat Moallem University and Tarbiat Modares University, both in Tehran; he holds a Masters degree in political science, political geography and geopolitics. Moones Mansoubi is a translator and Community Arts and Cultural Development worker based in Sydney. Her work is dedicated mainly to supporting and collaborating with migrants and people seeking asylum in Australia. Omid Tofighian is an award winning lecturer, researcher and community advocate. His publications include the translation of Boochani's award winning No Friend But the Mountains: Writings from Manus Prison. Boochani was a writer for the Kurdish language magazine Werya; is Associate Professor in Social Sciences at UNSW; non-resident Visiting Scholar at the Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre (SAPMiC), University of Sydney; Honorary Member of PEN International; and winner of an Amnesty International Australia 2017 Media Award, the Diaspora Symposium Social Justice Award, the Liberty Victoria 2018 Empty Chair Award, and the Anna Politkovskaya award for journalism. He publishes regularly with The Guardian, and his writing also features in The Saturday Paper, Huffington Post, New Matilda, The Financial Times and The Sydney Morning Herald. Boochani is also co-director (with Arash Kamali Sarvestani) of the 2017 feature-length film Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time; and collaborator on Nazanin Sahamizadeh's play Manus. Boochani's book, No Friend But The Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison won the 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature in addition to the Nonfiction category. He has also won the Special Award at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the Australian Book Industry Award for Nonfiction Book of the Year, and the National Biography Prize. It has been published in 18 languages in 23 countries and is currently being adapted for both stage and screen. Behrouz has been appointed adjunct associate professor in the faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of NSW and visiting professor at Birkbeck Law School at the University of London. He was a political prisoner incarcerated by the Australian government in Papua New Guinea for almost seven years. In November 2019 Behrouz escaped to New Zealand. He now resides in Wellington, New Zealand. Check out show notes for this episode on our website www.thefirsttimepodcast.com or get in touch via Twitter (@thefirsttimepod) or Instagram (@thefirsttimepod). Don't forget you can support us and the making of Season Six via our Patreon page. Thanks for joining us!

David Attwell is in conversation with Margie Orford, author of The Eye Of The Beholder. About the book: An extremely sharp, well-written female revenge thriller that looks at trauma and the complicated ways in which it manifests. WHEN DANGER LIES IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU REJECT ITS PULL? Cora carries secrets her daughter can't know. Freya is frightened by what her mother leaves unsaid. Angel will only bury the past if it means putting her abusers into the ground. One act of violence sets three women on a collision course, each desperate to find the truth – but the people they love are not what they seem. About Margie: Margie Orford is an internationally acclaimed writer. Her Clare Hart novels have been widely translated and led to her being described as the ‘queen of South African crime-thriller writers' (The Weekender). She has written a number of children's books and several works of nonfiction, and is also an award-winning journalist who writes regularly for newspapers in the UK and in South Africa. Orford is a member of the executive board of PEN International and president emerita of PEN South Africa. She lives in London. About David: David Attwell joined the University of York in January 2006 as a Professor of Modern Literature. He served as Head of the English and Related Literature Department from 2007/8 to 2011/12, and from 2012/13 to 2016/17. He took his BA and BA (Honours) degrees at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa and completed an MA by research on African literary theory and criticism at the University of Cape Town where his supervisor was J.M. Coetzee. He completed his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin where he worked with the distinguished Africanist Bernth Lindfors. David Attwell's publications include two monographs on J.M. Coetzee, the more recent being J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing (2015) which was a Finalist for the Alan Paton Prize, South Africa's premier award for nonfiction. Rewriting Modernity (2005/6) is his collection of studies of African writers in southern Africa from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. With Derek Attridge he co-edited The Cambridge History of South African Literature (2012).

David Attwell is in conversation with Margie Orford, author of The Eye Of The Beholder. About the book: An extremely sharp, well-written female revenge thriller that looks at trauma and the complicated ways in which it manifests. WHEN DANGER LIES IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU REJECT ITS PULL? Cora carries secrets her daughter can't know. Freya is frightened by what her mother leaves unsaid. Angel will only bury the past if it means putting her abusers into the ground. One act of violence sets three women on a collision course, each desperate to find the truth – but the people they love are not what they seem. About Margie: Margie Orford is an internationally acclaimed writer. Her Clare Hart novels have been widely translated and led to her being described as the ‘queen of South African crime-thriller writers' (The Weekender). She has written a number of children's books and several works of nonfiction, and is also an award-winning journalist who writes regularly for newspapers in the UK and in South Africa. Orford is a member of the executive board of PEN International and president emerita of PEN South Africa. She lives in London. About David: David Attwell joined the University of York in January 2006 as a Professor of Modern Literature. He served as Head of the English and Related Literature Department from 2007/8 to 2011/12, and from 2012/13 to 2016/17. He took his BA and BA (Honours) degrees at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa and completed an MA by research on African literary theory and criticism at the University of Cape Town where his supervisor was J.M. Coetzee. He completed his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin where he worked with the distinguished Africanist Bernth Lindfors. David Attwell's publications include two monographs on J.M. Coetzee, the more recent being J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing (2015) which was a Finalist for the Alan Paton Prize, South Africa's premier award for nonfiction. Rewriting Modernity (2005/6) is his collection of studies of African writers in southern Africa from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. With Derek Attridge he co-edited The Cambridge History of South African Literature (2012).

Jacob Collier has won a Grammy Award for each of his first four albums. In fact, he has five Grammys altogether. He's back home in London after his recent UK tour and has just brought out a new single, Never Gonna Be Alone. Jacob and his musical collaborators Lizzy McAlpine and Victoria Canal perform the song live in the Front Row studio. Following the attack on Sir Salman Rushdie at the weekend, the writer, human rights activist and PEN International president, Burhan Sönmez, considers the threats faced by writers across the world, from individuals on social media to imprisonment and torture by the state. 15th August 2022 is the 75th anniversary of the Partition of the Indian subcontinent into India and Pakistan. We speak to director Abdul Shayek and writer Ishy Din about their play, Silence, which is adapted from Kavita Puri's book Partition Voices: Untold British Stories, about how they dramatise the real-life stories of those who witnessed this brutal moment in history. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Jerome Weatherald Photo: Lizzy McAlpine and Jacob Collier / Credit: Mogli Maureal

Since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, life for writers and journalists has become increasingly risky. PEN International has helped many escape the oppressive regime, but ultimately these writers want to be home.

Ein Kommentar von Wolfgang Bittner.Das deutsche PEN-Zentrum vor seiner SelbstabschaffungDas PEN-Zentrum Deutschland ist eine von derzeit weltweit 150 Schriftstellervereinigungen, die im PEN-International zusammengeschlossen sind. Die Bezeichnung PEN steht für Poets, Essayists, Novelists. Vom 12. Bis 15. Mai fand nun in Gotha die Jahrestagung mit der Mitgliederversammlung des deutschen PEN statt. Von den 750 Mitgliedern waren zeitweise etwa 150 anwesend beziehungsweise Online zugeschaltet.PEN-Präsident war seit sieben Monaten der bei der Zeitung Die Welt tätige Journalist Deniz Yücel, der durch seine Inhaftierung in der Türkei bekannt geworden ist. Vor einigen Jahren hatte er geschrieben, das Verschwinden Deutschlands von der Landkarte wäre „Völkersterben von seiner schönsten Seite“. Yücel trat für eine Flugverbotszone in der Ukraine ein, was den Kriegseintritt der NATO und damit einen dritten Weltkrieg bedeuten würde. In dieser Weise hatte er auch als PEN-Präsident Stellung genommen, wozu er nicht befugt war.An einer im Rahmen der Tagung vorgesehenen Podiumsveranstaltung sollte außer Yücel ursprünglich der mit ihm befreundete Blogger Sascha Lobo teilnehmen, der völlig unangefochten von „Lumpen-Pazifisten“ sprach und Mahatma Gandhi als „sagenhafte Knalltüte“ bezeichnete (Ukraine-Krieg: Der deutsche Lumpen-Pazifismus - Kolumne - DER SPIEGEL). Es verdichtete sich der Eindruck, dass sich Yücel als Autokrat und Sittenrichter aufspielte, der andere Menschen maßregelte, diskreditierte und Kritiker oder politisch Andersdenkende meinte bestrafen zu dürfen.... hier weiterlesen: https://apolut.net/ein-tribunal-gegen-die-freiheit-des-wortes-von-wolfgang-bittner+++Apolut ist auch als kostenlose App für Android- und iOS-Geräte verfügbar! Über unsere Homepage kommen Sie zu den Stores von Apple und Huawei. Hier der Link: https://apolut.net/app/Die apolut-App steht auch zum Download (als sogenannte Standalone- oder APK-App) auf unserer Homepage zur Verfügung. Mit diesem Link können Sie die App auf Ihr Smartphone herunterladen: https://apolut.net/apolut_app.apk+++Abonnieren Sie jetzt den apolut-Newsletter: https://apolut.net/newsletter/+++Ihnen gefällt unser Programm? Informationen zu Unterstützungsmöglichkeiten finden Sie hier: https://apolut.net/unterstuetzen/+++Unterstützung für apolut kann auch als Kleidung getragen werden! Hier der Link zu unserem Fan-Shop: https://harlekinshop.com/pages/apolut+++Website und Social Media:Website: https://apolut.net/Odysee: https://odysee.com/@apolut:aRumble: https://rumble.com/ApolutInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/apolut_net/Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/apolut_netTelegram: https://t.me/s/apolutFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/apolut/Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/apolut Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Soutenant la liberté d'expression, le PEN international fait halte à la MRL pour une rencontre d'exception entre les auteurs en exil Burhan Sönmez et Mikhaïl Pavlovitch Chichkine. Ils évoquent ensemble leur engagement politique, leurs combats et leur œuvre. Une rencontre modérée par la présidente de la section romande du PEN International. Date: 18 mars 2022 Avec: Burhan Sönmez, Mikhaïl Pavlovitch Chichkine et Alix Parodi

We're starting the show this week with my interview with Natalia Melnychuk. In addition to working for PEN International, an association dedicated to advocacy for writers, poets, journalists, and people of the pen, Natalia works as a freelance journalist. After she left Ukraine on the second day of the Russian invasion, she traveled to the UK. At the end of the show, Scott Horsley, NPR's chief economic mind, is back on the show. This week we're discussing sanctions and how they affect national economies --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/newsnerds/message

Peste 1000 de scriitori din întreaga lume au semnat o scrisoare a organizației PEN International în care își exprimă solidaritatea cu scriitorii, artiștii, jurnaliștii, oamenii din Ucraina, condamnînd invazia Rusiei și cerînd oprirea imediată a vărsării de sînge. Iar PEN România a trimis o scrisoare către PEN Ucraina, în care se exprimă solidaritatea cu scriitorii din țara vecină. Dar ce putere au asemenea mesaje, ce impact au apelurile scriitorilor la pace? Cît contează pentru cetățenii ruși voci precum cea a scriitoarei Ludmila Ulițkaia, care, în Rusia fiind, într-un act de curaj admirabil condamnă războiul? I-am întrebat pe scriitorii Miruna Vlada și Bogdan Ghiu, membri ai organizației PEN România. O emisiune de Adela Greceanu. Un produs Radio România Cultural. 

Gobierno de Joe Biden y el Homeland Security Agency emite alerta en la que califican a la desinformación en las redes sociales, las teorías de conspiración y las noticias falsas como la mayor amenaza de terrorismo interno. Hoy, converso desde México con la portavoz de Pen International, Lucina Kathman, sobre la ola de arrestos y asesinatos de periodistas. Esto, en el marco de lo que ocurre en Nicaragua, donde ayer sentenciaron a 13 años de prisión a un periodista que publicaba noticias contra el gobierno. Mientras el Gobernador Pierlusi anunció aumento de $1,000 a los bomberos, sigue premiando al exjefe de bomberos que no fue confirmado por ser agresor, Javish Collazo, y a decenas de ayudantes con salarios que empiezan en $8 y $9 mil al mes. Después de 6 meses, reacciona el alcalde de Caguas a la investigación de corrupción y represalias en su municipio. Masivas protestas del sector público por su precariedad laboral. Maestros, bomberos y otros empleados públicos reclaman un salario justo permanente y un retiro digno garantizado. Se ausenta 82% del magisterio del salón de clases, pero el Gobernador estaba en Barceloneta durante la protesta de los servidores públicos. Hasta Ricky Martin salió en defensa del pueblo. Se une a expresiones de Kany García, PJ sin Suela y Residente, entre otros. Secretaria de la gobernación compara a PR con edificio feo que pronto será ‘chic'. Rivera Schatz dice que populares viven la vida queriendo fumar marihuana, al reaccionar su oposición al proyecto de Héctor Ferrer. Y mientras aquí algunos le besaban los pies al rey de España, quien ahora salió positivo al Covid, en México se dan a respetar y lo rechazan. López Obrador: detiene las relaciones con España hasta que las empresas ibéricas detengan al corrupción y la conducta ilegal. Y en Mayagüez – Abre importante exhibición artística del artista Javier Maldonado O ‘Farril. Éstas y otras noticias, hoy En Blanco y Negro con Sandra. - - - Este programa se transmite por las siguientes emisoras, y por sus respectivas plataformas digitales, y aplicaciones para dispositivos Apple y Android: Radio Grito 1200AM: Lares Radio Grito 93.3 FM Aguadilla X61 610 AM: Patillas y toda la zona sureste X61 94.3 FM: Patillas-Guayama WLRP 1460 AM Radio Raíces: La voz del Pepino en San Sebastián Cadena WIAC - WYAC 930 AM: Cabo Rojo-Mayagüez Cadena WIAC – WISA 1390 AM Isabela Cadena WIAC - WIAC 740 AM: Área metropolitana Mi Podcast: Anchor, SoundCloud y demás. https://anchor.fm/sandrarodriguezcotto Redes Sociales: FACEBOOK, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, LINKEDIN E-mail: Enblancoynegroconsandra@gmail.com BLOG: http://enblancoynegromedia.blogspot.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sandrarodriguezcotto/support

David Francis, based in Los Angeles, is the author of The Great Inland Sea, published to acclaim as Agapanthus Tango in seven countries, Stray Dog Winter, Book of the Year in The Advocate, winner of the American Library Association Barbara Gittings Prize for Literature and a LAMBDA Literary Award Finalist, and most recently Wedding Bush Roadpublished by Counterpoint Press in 2018. His short fiction and articles have appeared in publications including HarvardReview, The Sydney Morning Herald, Southern California Review, Best Australian Stories, Australian Love Stories, Los Angeles Times and The Rattling Wall.   His book and film reviews have appeared in publications including Los Angeles Review of Books and The Advocate. Film rights to The Great Inland Sea and Stray Dog Winter have been optioned in France and the United States, respectively. David began his legal career in 1983 with Allens, an international law firm based in Australia, and recently retired from the Los Angeles office of the London-based firm, Norton Rose Fulbright. He is Chair of PEN America in Los Angeles and a board member of PEN International. For more information go to www.davidfranciswriter.com.

Chris Hedges discusses the implications of the latest British High Court of England and Wales ruling and its implications for Julian Assange's case with documentary filmmaker and journalist John Pilger. The British High Court of England and Wales on Monday said it would allow the imprisoned publisher of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, to, in essence, appeal a ruling that would have seen him extradited to the United States where he faces a possible 175 years in prison for the publication of classified documents and videos. The High Court technically refused to allow an appeal to the Supreme Court, but, in a legal loophole, it left it up to that court to determine whether it will grant permission to consider one legal issue. “We certify a single point of law … in what circumstances can an appellate court receive assurances from a requesting state which were not before the court of first instance in extradition proceedings,” the High Court said in an appearance that lasted less than a minute. This single point of law refers to whether the United States was legally permitted to provide assurances to the High Court of Assange's humane treatment in the United States after it had failed to do so during the initial hearing that blocked the extradition. During a Dec. 10 hearing, which vacated the ruling by District Court Judge Vanessa Baraitser in January 2021, the high court accepted the appeal by the US to approve the extradition. Baraitser had ruled that Assange could not be extradited because of inhumane conditions in US prisons that would make Assange, who suffers from physical and mental health issues, a suicide risk. The United States, in its appeal of her ruling, gave assurances that Assange would receive adequate medical and psychological care and would not be subject to measures commonly used in high-profile cases such as prolonged isolation and Special Administrative Measures, known as SAMs, which impose draconian rules limited any communication and allows the government to monitor meetings with attorneys in violation of attorney-client privilege. It is now up to the British Supreme Court, if it accepts the appeal, to decide this one issue – could the US offer assurances after Judge Baraitser had ruled against extradition. Assange has 14 days to apply to the British Supreme Court to hear his case. The US effort to extradite Assange, who is not a US citizen, has been widely condemned by human rights and press groups including Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Watch, PEN International, and Reporters Without Borders, which call the persecution of Assange an existential threat to press freedom.

In the first episode of Season Two of The Empty Chair, the president of PEN South Africa, Nadia Davids, is in conversation with Dr Ma Thida, medical doctor, writer, human rights activist, former prisoner of conscience and current chair of PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee. Ma Thida reads from Prisoner of Conscience: My Steps Through Insein and discusses her experience of imprisonment, freedom of expression, censorship, the value of reading, her activism, PEN, and what it means to be a good citizen. In this episode we stand in solidarity with three writers, all members of PEN Myanmar: Than Myint Aung, Maung Thar Cho and Wai Moe Naing. For more information about them, visit www.pensouthafrica.co.za This podcast series is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Embassy in South Africa.

Todos politiquean: La JCF con el bono, la jueza con el pueblo, el Gobernador con la criminalidad Criminalidad tiene al país en ascuas. Primero el jefe de la policía lo minimizó y se defendió diciendo que los policías “no son pitonistos” para saber dónde habrá tiroteos. Entonces el gobernador sale a decir que le preocupa no la gente, sino el turismo. Es peor que su comentario de los carros destartalados. Preocupa al gobernador que imágenes de asesinatos en Puerto Rico afecten el turismo. Dice que el alza en el crimen es lamentable, "desde el punto de vista de la proyección de Puerto Rico fuera" Alcaldesa de Morovis también politiquea. Ordena cierre de negocios a medianoche ante alza en la incidencia criminal. La ordenanza aplicará a todo comercio que se dedique a la venta de bebidas alcohólicas. La Policía detiene al exalcalde de Aguas Buenas y su hermano por alegada posesión de marihuana. La intervención ocurrió en Mayagüez. Y mientras tanto, el libre acceso a la información sigue bajo amenaza en Puerto Rico. CPI vuelve al tribunal con varios recursos para reclamar información pública del Departamento de Recursos Naturales, la Oficina de Gerencia de Permisos y el Departamento de Salud, las agencias que no cumplen con la entrega de documentos. Si está desempleado, sepa que no le llegará su chequecito del desempleo. Empleados del Departamento del Trabajo alegan que recibieron la orden de cancelación sin mayores explicaciones de parte de sus superiores Amenazan a periodista en Nicaragua. Corre peligro su vida, denuncia PEN International. Éstas y otras noticias, hoy En Blanco y Negro con Sandra. - - - Este programa se transmite por las siguientes emisoras, y por sus respectivas plataformas digitales, y aplicaciones para dispositivos Apple y Android: Radio Grito 1200AM: Lares Radio Grito 93.3 FM Aguadilla X61 610 AM: Patillas y toda la zona sureste X61 94.3 FM: Patillas-Guayama WLRP 1460 AM Radio Raíces: La voz del Pepino en San Sebastián Cadena WIAC - WYAC 930 AM: Cabo Rojo-Mayagüez Cadena WIAC – WISA 1390 AM Isabela Cadena WIAC - WIAC 740 AM: Área metropolitana Mi Podcast: Anchor, SoundCloud y demás. https://anchor.fm/sandrarodriguezcotto Redes Sociales: FACEBOOK, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, LINKEDIN E-mail: Enblancoynegroconsandra@gmail.com BLOG: http://enblancoynegromedia.blogspot.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sandrarodriguezcotto/support

Trainiere dein Hörverstehen mit den Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle von Mittwoch – als Text und als verständlich gesprochene Audio-Datei.Polen will massiv aufrüsten Polen will die Zahl seiner Soldaten mehr als verdoppeln. Ziel sei eine Zahl von mindestens 250.000 Berufssoldaten, sagte Verteidigungsminister Mariusz Blaszczak in Warschau. Die "radikale Stärkung der Streitkräfte" sei nötig, weil sich die Sicherheitslage verschlechtere, sagte der stellvertretende Regierungschef Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Belarus führe mit der Schleusung von Migranten über die Grenze in die Europäische Union "hybride Attacken" und Russland habe "imperiale Ambitionen", so die Einschätzung des einflussreichen Vorsitzenden der Regierungspartei PiS. USA kritisieren israelischen Siedlungsbau Die US-Regierung hat die neuen israelischen Pläne für den Ausbau jüdischer Siedlungen im besetzten palästinensischen Westjordanland heftig kritisiert. Dies laufe den Bemühungen um Deeskalation in Nahost entgegen und gefährde die Aussichten auf eine Zwei-Staaten-Lösung. Es ist das erste Mal seit Jahren, dass die USA öffentliche und harte Kritik an der israelischen Siedlungspolitik üben. Präsident Joe Biden setzt sich damit deutlich von dem Kurs seines Amtsvorgängers Donald Trump ab. Unter Trump hatten die USA die Siedlungsaktivitäten pauschal gebilligt. Senatsausschuss in Brasilien votiert für Anklage gegen Bolsonaro In Brasilien hat ein parlamentarischer Untersuchungsausschuss zur Corona-Politik der brasilianischen Regierung Staatspräsident Jair Bolsonaro teils schwere Straftaten zugeschrieben und eine Anklage empfohlen. Ein Senatsausschuss billigte den umfangreichen Abschlussbericht von Senator Renan Calheiros mit sieben zu vier Stimmen. Demnach wird Bolsonaro für mindestens neun Verbrechen verantwortlich gemacht - von Täuschung der Öffentlichkeit über Anstiftung zu Straftaten bis hin zu Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit. Neben Bolsonaro sollen 79 weitere Personen zur Verantwortung gezogen werden. UN-Sicherheitsrat kann sich zu Sudan nicht einigen Der Weltsicherheitsrat hat sich auf einer Dringlichkeitssitzung zur Lage nach dem Putsch in dem ostafrikanischen Land nicht auf eine gemeinsame Stellungnahme einigen können. China und Russland haben laut Diplomatenangaben Änderungen an dem Entwurf gefordert. Die beiden Länder sähen die Vorkommnisse in Khartum nicht als Putsch, anders als andere Ratsmitglieder. Sudans neue Militärmachthaber versprachen derweil die Einsetzung einer Experten-Regierung. Der abgesetzte Regierungschef Abdullah Hamduk durfte offenbar unter Bewachung wieder in sein eigenes Haus zurückkehren. AI warnt vor klimabedingter Hungersnot in Madagaskar Amnesty International hat vor Hungertoten in Folge der schweren Dürre in Madagaskar gewarnt. Wegen einer seit November 2020 anhaltenden Trockenheit im Süden des Landes stünden mehr als eine Million Menschen vor der ersten klimabedingten Hungersnot, heißt es in einem Bericht der Menschenrechtsorganisation. Diese katastrophale Dürre verletzte die Rechte auf Leben, Nahrung und Wasser. Um weiteren Rechtsverletzungen vorzubeugen, fordert Amnesty wenige Tage vor Beginn der UN-Klimakonferenz im schottischen Glasgow zur Bekämpfung der globalen Klimakrise auf. BioNTech-Impfstoff in USA bald auch für Kinder Ein Gremium der US-Arzneimittelbehörde FDA hat sich für eine Notfallzulassung des Corona-Impfstoffes von BioNTech/Pfizer für Kinder zwischen fünf und elf Jahren ausgesprochen. Der Ausschuss ist der Auffassung, dass der Nutzen einer Impfung auch in dieser Altersgruppe mögliche Risiken deutlich überwiegt. Eine endgültige Entscheidung der FDA wird noch in dieser Woche erwartet. Für Kinder unter zwölf Jahren ist in europäischen und vielen anderen Ländern bislang kein Corona-Impfstoff zugelassen. Die deutsche Impfkommission Stiko hat noch Bedenken. Sie will eine eigene Datenanalyse durchführen. Deniz Yücel Präsident des PEN Deutschland Der Schriftstellerverband PEN-Zentrum Deutschland hat Deniz Yücel in Frankfurt am Main zum neuen Präsidenten gewählt. Der 48 Jahre alte Journalist und Schriftsteller wurde als Türkei-Korrespondent der Zeitung "Die Welt" international bekannt, als er von 2017 bis 2018 ohne Anklageschrift im Gefängnis Silivri bei Istanbul inhaftiert wurde. Erst nach einem politischen Tauziehen durfte Yücel ausreisen, in Abwesenheit wurde er wegen Terrorpropaganda verurteilt. Das deutsche PEN-Zentrum ist eine von mehr als 150 Schriftstellervereinigungen, die im PEN International zusammengeschlossen sind.

Pieter Vanhove's World Literature After Empire: Rethinking Universality in the Long Cold War (2021), engages with the idea of ‘world' as it manifests in literary and philosophical studies. Taking an interdisciplinary and multilingual approach, Vanhove centers his discussion on literature and the arts, while drawing an important historical tableau of the Cold War that highlights the ways in which decolonization processes facilitated a multiplicity of ways to think of the ‘world'. His book engages at length with debates on world literature, postcolonial thought, and translation. In order to show the complex political and cultural tapestry of the Cold War, Vanhove engages in case studies on China and the Afro-Asian Writer's Bureau, Alberto Moravia and PEN International, Antonio Gramsci and Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean-Paul Sartre and Patrice Lulumba, André Malraux, and Huang Yong Ping. In so doing, the Vanhove demonstrates how artists during the Cold War engaged in cultural discourse that was anti-imperialist, and whose questions centered on issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class. Vanhove's book argues for a process of deconstruction of the Eurocentric conception of the world, for a closer engagement with conceptions of the world in various contexts during the Cold War, and ultimately for using tools of deconstruction to “do justice to the untranslatability of cultural artifacts that call into question the logic of universalization.” Pieter Vanhove is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University. He holds a PhD in Italian and Comparative Literature from Columnia University. Vanhove's publications include articles in Critical Asian Studies, estetica: studi e ricerche, Senses of Cinema, and Studi pasoliniani. Eralda Lameborshi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature and Languages at Texas A&M University Commerce. Her areas of research include world literature and cinema, Southeast European studies, Ottoman studies, postcolonial theory, and the global novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/world-affairs

Pieter Vanhove's World Literature After Empire: Rethinking Universality in the Long Cold War (2021), engages with the idea of ‘world' as it manifests in literary and philosophical studies. Taking an interdisciplinary and multilingual approach, Vanhove centers his discussion on literature and the arts, while drawing an important historical tableau of the Cold War that highlights the ways in which decolonization processes facilitated a multiplicity of ways to think of the ‘world'. His book engages at length with debates on world literature, postcolonial thought, and translation. In order to show the complex political and cultural tapestry of the Cold War, Vanhove engages in case studies on China and the Afro-Asian Writer's Bureau, Alberto Moravia and PEN International, Antonio Gramsci and Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean-Paul Sartre and Patrice Lulumba, André Malraux, and Huang Yong Ping. In so doing, the Vanhove demonstrates how artists during the Cold War engaged in cultural discourse that was anti-imperialist, and whose questions centered on issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class. Vanhove's book argues for a process of deconstruction of the Eurocentric conception of the world, for a closer engagement with conceptions of the world in various contexts during the Cold War, and ultimately for using tools of deconstruction to “do justice to the untranslatability of cultural artifacts that call into question the logic of universalization.” Pieter Vanhove is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University. He holds a PhD in Italian and Comparative Literature from Columnia University. Vanhove's publications include articles in Critical Asian Studies, estetica: studi e ricerche, Senses of Cinema, and Studi pasoliniani. Eralda Lameborshi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature and Languages at Texas A&M University Commerce. Her areas of research include world literature and cinema, Southeast European studies, Ottoman studies, postcolonial theory, and the global novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Pieter Vanhove's World Literature After Empire: Rethinking Universality in the Long Cold War (2021), engages with the idea of ‘world' as it manifests in literary and philosophical studies. Taking an interdisciplinary and multilingual approach, Vanhove centers his discussion on literature and the arts, while drawing an important historical tableau of the Cold War that highlights the ways in which decolonization processes facilitated a multiplicity of ways to think of the ‘world'. His book engages at length with debates on world literature, postcolonial thought, and translation. In order to show the complex political and cultural tapestry of the Cold War, Vanhove engages in case studies on China and the Afro-Asian Writer's Bureau, Alberto Moravia and PEN International, Antonio Gramsci and Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean-Paul Sartre and Patrice Lulumba, André Malraux, and Huang Yong Ping. In so doing, the Vanhove demonstrates how artists during the Cold War engaged in cultural discourse that was anti-imperialist, and whose questions centered on issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class. Vanhove's book argues for a process of deconstruction of the Eurocentric conception of the world, for a closer engagement with conceptions of the world in various contexts during the Cold War, and ultimately for using tools of deconstruction to “do justice to the untranslatability of cultural artifacts that call into question the logic of universalization.” Pieter Vanhove is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University. He holds a PhD in Italian and Comparative Literature from Columnia University. Vanhove's publications include articles in Critical Asian Studies, estetica: studi e ricerche, Senses of Cinema, and Studi pasoliniani. Eralda Lameborshi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature and Languages at Texas A&M University Commerce. Her areas of research include world literature and cinema, Southeast European studies, Ottoman studies, postcolonial theory, and the global novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Pieter Vanhove's World Literature After Empire: Rethinking Universality in the Long Cold War (2021), engages with the idea of ‘world' as it manifests in literary and philosophical studies. Taking an interdisciplinary and multilingual approach, Vanhove centers his discussion on literature and the arts, while drawing an important historical tableau of the Cold War that highlights the ways in which decolonization processes facilitated a multiplicity of ways to think of the ‘world'. His book engages at length with debates on world literature, postcolonial thought, and translation. In order to show the complex political and cultural tapestry of the Cold War, Vanhove engages in case studies on China and the Afro-Asian Writer's Bureau, Alberto Moravia and PEN International, Antonio Gramsci and Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean-Paul Sartre and Patrice Lulumba, André Malraux, and Huang Yong Ping. In so doing, the Vanhove demonstrates how artists during the Cold War engaged in cultural discourse that was anti-imperialist, and whose questions centered on issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class. Vanhove's book argues for a process of deconstruction of the Eurocentric conception of the world, for a closer engagement with conceptions of the world in various contexts during the Cold War, and ultimately for using tools of deconstruction to “do justice to the untranslatability of cultural artifacts that call into question the logic of universalization.” Pieter Vanhove is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University. He holds a PhD in Italian and Comparative Literature from Columnia University. Vanhove's publications include articles in Critical Asian Studies, estetica: studi e ricerche, Senses of Cinema, and Studi pasoliniani. Eralda Lameborshi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature and Languages at Texas A&M University Commerce. Her areas of research include world literature and cinema, Southeast European studies, Ottoman studies, postcolonial theory, and the global novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Ma Thida is a major figure in the struggle for democracy in Myanmar.  A surgeon and writer she was initially happy to go to prison to gain experience to write a prison memoir.  However after years in solitary confinement it was only mindfulness meditation and books she had smuggled into jail that got her through.  She speaks to Earshot for this special series marking the anniverary of PEN International from an undisclosed location she has fled to after the February coup in Myanmar.

A series marking 100 years of Pen International, the organisation that advocates for prisoners of conscience around the world.

Have writers been imprisoned in Australia for their work?  Most definitely and PEN has worked to have them freed.  In this history of PEN in Australia Arnold Zable tells the story of Cheikh Kone, a journalist from the Ivory Coast who was detained in Port Hedland and writer Behrouz Boochani detained on Manus Island. As well as the letters members of PEN have written to imprisoned writers around the world, like those in Myanmar, to tell them that they are not alone. I am a stranger to you but please know that you are no stranger to me – Maria Tumarkin in a letter to Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an Australian writer detained in Iran until recently.

Writers go to prison for the courageous pursuit of their craft and PEN has been working to get them out.  Melbourne writer Arnold Zable tells the story of PEN International - from its creation out of the scars of World War 1 to bring societies together through their literature, to its growing human rights work across the globe, protecting freedom of speech and supporting imprisoned writers. If you don't know the truth you can't act – Jennifer Clements - President of PEN International

This month marks the 100th anniversary of PEN International, the organisation that advocates for writers in prison or in other ways persecuted. PEN has a fascinating history, which is being told in a new two part series on Radio National's History Listen program.  Arnold Zable is narrating the series.

In this episode, Shruti talks with Salil Tripathi about Bangladesh's economic prosperity, cultural similarities and differences with India, religious and linguistic identity, and about what India can learn from Bangaladesh on its 50th anniversary. Tripathi is an Indian journalist, author and editor, currently the chair of PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee. and he is the Senior Advisor on Global Issues at the Institute for Human Rights and Business. He is the author of “Offence: The Hindu Case,” “Detours: Songs of the Open Road” and “The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy.” Follow Salil on Twitter: https://twitter.com/saliltripathi  Follow Shruti on Twitter: https://twitter.com/srajagopalan Learn more about the 1991 Project: https://the1991project.com  For a full transcript of this conversation with helpful links, please visit DiscourseMagazine.com.

Alexander Arkhangelsky is a modern Russian writer, journalist and editor, Ph.D. in Philology, professor at the Faculty of Communications, Media and Design at the Higher School of Economics. Chairman of the non-governmental human rights organization of writers, journalists and bloggers PEN-Moscow (affiliated with PEN International). In the past - the author and host of television programs "Against the Current", "Chronograph". Since 2002 - the author and host of the program "Meanwhile". Author of scientific and popular science books "The Bronze Horseman" by A. Pushkin "(1990)," Conversations on Russian Literature. The end of the XVIII - the first half of the XIX century "(1998)," Heroes of Pushkin. Essays on literary characterology "(1999), collections of literary criticism (" At the front door ", 1991), journalistic articles. Author of prose books “1962. The Epistle to Timothy ”(latest edition - 2008),“ Cutoff Price ”(2008),“ Museum of the Revolution ”(2012), etc. The book“ Alexander I ”went through several editions in Russia, translated into French and Chinese. Author of school textbooks, teaching aids, reading books on literature. The author of the films "Factory of Memory: Libraries of the World", "Department", "Heat", "Intelligent. Vissarion Belinsky", "The Exile. Alexander Herzen" and others. FIND ALEXANDER ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook | Instagram ================================ SUPPORT & CONNECT: Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/denofrich Twitter: https://twitter.com/denofrich Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denofrich YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/denofrich Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/den_of_rich/ Hashtag: #denofrich © Copyright 2022 Den of Rich. All rights reserved.

Alexander Arkhangelsky is a modern Russian writer, journalist and editor, Ph.D. in Philology, professor at the Faculty of Communications, Media and Design at the Higher School of Economics. Chairman of the non-governmental human rights organization of writers, journalists and bloggers PEN-Moscow (affiliated with PEN International).In the past - the author and host of television programs "Against the Current", "Chronograph". Since 2002 - the author and host of the program "Meanwhile". Author of scientific and popular science books "The Bronze Horseman" by A. Pushkin "(1990)," Conversations on Russian Literature. The end of the XVIII - the first half of the XIX century "(1998)," Heroes of Pushkin. Essays on literary characterology "(1999), collections of literary criticism (" At the front door ", 1991), journalistic articles. Author of prose books “1962. The Epistle to Timothy ”(latest edition - 2008),“ Cutoff Price ”(2008),“ Museum of the Revolution ”(2012), etc. The book“ Alexander I ”went through several editions in Russia, translated into French and Chinese. Author of school textbooks, teaching aids, reading books on literature. The author of the films "Factory of Memory: Libraries of the World", "Department", "Heat", "Intelligent. Vissarion Belinsky", "The Exile. Alexander Herzen" and others.FIND ALEXANDER ON SOCIAL MEDIAFacebook | Instagram

Dr Marc Owen Jones (Hamad Bin Khalifa University) and Dr Sahar Khamis (University of Maryland) give a talk for the MEC Friday Seminars Series. Chaired by Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony’s College, Oxford). Moderator: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford) This evening Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony’s College) is joined by Dr Mark Owen Jones (Assistant Professor, Hamad Bin Halifa University) and Dr Sahar Khamis (Associate Professor, University of Maryland). Ten years after the eruption of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, which had a wide range of eclectic outcomes, it became obvious that the transitions to democratization have been derailed in the so-called post-Arab Spring countries, with the exception of Tunisia. This presentation unpacks the complexity of the parallel surge in anti-authoritarianism resistance movements, on one hand, and repressive counter-revolutionary movements, on the other hand, in this post-Arab Spring mediated political and media environment. It explains how anti-authoritarian activists continue to resist dictatorships across the Arab world, using a plethora of digital media platforms, and how authoritarian regimes are using the same digital tools and techniques, in parallel, to sabotage such efforts. In doing so, it illustrates how the phenomenon of “cyberactivism” is opening up new horizons in this ongoing tug-of-war between authoritarian rulers and their opponents in the Arab region, who are not just resisting political repression, but are also pushing back against all forms of gender-based, socially-based, culturally-based, and politically-based marginalization and discrimination, simultaneously. Biographies: Dr Marc Owen Jones received his BA in Journalism, Film and Broadcasting from Cardiff University in 2006, and a CASAW-funded MSc in Arab World Studies from the University of Durham in 2010. Following this, he completed his PhD (funded by the AHRC/ESRC) in 2016 at Durham, where he wrote an interdisciplinary thesis on the history of political repression in Bahrain. His thesis won the 2016 AGAPS prize. He spent much of his childhood in Bahrain, and has also lived in various parts of the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Syria. Prior to joining HBKU, he won a Teach at Tubingen Award at Tuebingen University’s Institute for Political Science, and worked as a Lecturer in the History of the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula at Exeter University’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. He is currently Assistant Professor in Middle East Studies and Digital Humanities at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar. He is co-editor of two books Gulfization of the Arab World (Gerlach Press, 2018) and Bahrain’s Uprising: Resistance and Repression in the Gulf (Zed Books 2015), and author of the recently published book Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press, 2020). In addition to his academic work, he enjoys communicating his research to broader audiences, and has bylines in the Washington Post, New Statesman, CNN, the Independent, PEN International, and several others. He has also appeared frequently on the BBC, Channel 4 News, and Al Jazeera. Dr Sahar Khamis is an expert on Arab and Muslim media, and the former Head of the Mass Communication and Information Science Department in Qatar University. She is a former Mellon Islamic Studies Initiative Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. Sahar is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Communication, University of Maryland, USA. She is the co-author of the books: Islam Dot Com: Contemporary Islamic Discourses in Cyberspace (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and Egyptian Revolution 2.0: Political Blogging, Civic Engagement and Citizen Journalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and the co-editor of Arab Women's Activism and Socio-Political Transformation: Unfinished Gendered Revolutions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Additionally, she has authored and co-authored numerous book chapters, journal articles and conference papers, regionally and internationally, in both English and Arabic. She is the recipient of a number of prestigious academic and professional awards, as well as a member of the editorial boards of several journals in the field of communication, in general, and the field of Arab and Muslim media, in particular. Dr. Khamis is a media commentator and analyst, a public speaker, a human rights commissioner in the Human Rights Commission in Montgomery County, Maryland, and a radio host, who presents a monthly radio show on “U.S. Arab Radio” (the first Arab-American radio station broadcasting in the U.S. and Canada).

Best known for his “Rosales Saga” novels, multi-award-winning Filipino writer F. Sionil José, is known equally outside his country for his interventions on questions of land reform and social justice as well as one of the founders of the regional journal of literature and opinion, Solidarity. Born before the Great Depression, he is rare in being a living witness to the tumultuous 20th Century; throughout he has been a consistent advocate for freedom of expression with his confirmation as Vice President of PEN International in October 2019 a testament to that conviction. In this conversation, Eddin Khoo speaks to him about the role of the writer in the formation of national consciousness. Speakers: F. Sionil José, Eddin Khoo

Priyamvada Gopal talks to Salil Tripathi about her latest book, Insurgent Empire: How rebellious slave colonies changed British attitudes to Empire (2019). Insurgent Empire shows how Britain’s enslaved and colonial subjects were active agents in their own liberation. What is more, they shaped British ideas of freedom and emancipation back in the United Kingdom. Priyamvada Gopal is a Professor in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, where she is a Fellow of Churchill College. Her main teaching and research interests are in colonial and postcolonial literature and theory, gender and feminism, Marxism and critical race studies.  Salil Tripathi is a Bombay-born writer based in New York. He is the author of several books, and his next book is about the Gujaratis. He chairs PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee. Salil has been a correspondent in India, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and worked at human rights organisations in London. His journalism has won awards in India and abroad. He writes for Mint and Caravan. BIC Talks is brought to you by the Bangalore International Centre. Visit the BIC website for show notes, links and more information about the guest.

On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to John Ralston Saul, author and president emeritus of Pen International, about how the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the weakness of American society, and accelerated the decline of the American Empire. Among Saul's many books are: The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World, and Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West.

Reverse of globalism during the COVID-19 pandemic Guest: John Ralston Saul, President Emeritus of PEN International, Author of

John Ralston Saul is an award-winning essayist and novelist. His works of ideas, history and philosophy are constantly being reissued and translated for a broad readership, as well as taught around the world. A long-time champion of freedom of expression, he was the elected President of PEN International from 2009 to 2015. He is a leading voice in the international movement supporting immigrants and refugees. Saul is perhaps best known for his philosophical trilogy – Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, The Doubter’s Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense and The Unconscious Civilization. This was followed by a meditation on the trilogy – On Equilibrium: Six Qualities of the New Humanism. Born in Ottawa, Saul studied at McGill University and King’s College, University of London, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1972. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nyhetssändning från kulturredaktionen P1, med reportage, nyheter och recensioner.

Kashmir is a state split between India and Pakistan. Since 1990, a brutal military regime has traumatised the mostly Muslim population living on the Indian side. Tens of thousands of people have been killed, thousands more have been disappeared, tortured or raped. Indian Kashmir lost its last vestiges of democracy and the rule of law in August 2019, and all communication and movement are now strictly controlled by the military. Writer Nitasha Kaul will read some of her work and discuss conditions in her home region with Salil Tripathi, journalist, writer and chair of PEN International's writers in prison committee. In collaboration with Norwegian PEN and the Rafto Foundation for Human Rights. In English

Nyhetssändning från kulturredaktionen P1, med reportage, nyheter och recensioner.

Australian citizen and journalist, Yang Hengjun, was arrested in China on suspicion of espionage in January 2019. Since then he has been imprisoned by the Chinese authorities, enduring interrogation and alleged torture. In August he was charged with espionage, a move that could see him facing severe penalties including more than 10 years in prison. Sydney PEN is advocating for Yang’s release and PEN International is investigating his case

Sami Shah, Samah Sabawi, Mammad Aidani and Roza Germian at the Wheeler Centre Writers and journalists are often among the first citizens targeted and punished by autocratic leaders. With creeping authoritarianism and instability in many regions around the world, it's an increasingly dangerous time for writers of all kinds. On the eve of PEN International's Day of the Imprisoned Writer, we held a special panel event as part of our Writers in Exile series to discuss old and emerging threats to literary freedoms today. Host Sami Shah welcomed back the three writers who have shared their personal stories of exile – journalist Roza Germian, playwright Samah Sabawi and playwright and poet Mammad Aidani – for the last conversation in the series. They discuss their own experiences and their knowledge of press and literary restriction in their respective home countries – as well as the role Australia can and should play on the international stage with regards to protecting and protesting the freedom of writers here and overseas. Presented in partnership with PEN Melbourne.Support the Wheeler Centre: https://www.wheelercentre.com/support-us/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark Isaacs is the author, among other books, of the new book, The Kabul Peace House, which we discuss, and which describes a community of peace activists in Afghanistan. Mark is president of Sydney PEN, an affiliate of PEN International, a worldwide association of writers which defends freedom of expression and campaigns on behalf of writers who have been silenced by persecution or imprisonment. He speaks with us from Australia. His website is markjisaacs.com

Poetry and storytelling by Hani Abdile, writer and spoken word poet, who fled the civil war in Somalia at 16, forced to leave her family behind. She made her way to Australian waters by boat and was detained on Christmas Island. Hani is author of I Will Rise, an honorary member of PEN International, and a lead writer for Writing Through Fences. She currently lives in Sydney.

In this episode of PEN Voices, Bangladeshi poet and journalist Humayun Reza speaks about the challenges some writers face in Australia.Produced by Mick Paddon and Humayun Reza of Eastside Radio.Supervising production by Sharon Davis.For more information about PEN International go herehttps://pen.org.au/collections/membership

Jennifer Clement är en mexikansk-amerikansk författare och sedan 2015 ordförande för PEN International. Vad var det som fick henne att engagera sig för yttrandefrihet och författare som förtrycks eller fängslas? Hör henne i veckans podd om Donald Trump och Dalai Lama, läget i världen för författare och om hur det är att växa upp i Mexiko.

photo by George Peper Caroline is enthused to welcome back Dick Russell and his crucial pertinent book “Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Men Who Are Destroying Life On Earth – and What It Means For Our Children,” an in-depth investigation into the energy moguls most responsible for the climate change crisis facing our civilization. May a Renaissance of Sane Reverence eclipse the on-going Dystopian Death by Dementors of Doom! Dick Russell has published thirteen books on subjects ranging from natural history (“Eye of the Whale”) to the assassination of President Kennedy. For most of the past twenty years, the primary focus of Dick Russell's magazine writing and personal activism has been the environment – particularly the crisis impacting the world's fisheries and oceans. http://dickrussell.org/ “Dick Russell and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., have brilliantly laid bare the horsemen of the apocalypse and their cronies who are now steering the American ship of state and are bent on committing hara-kiri on the agreements, agencies, and regulations that are a bulwark against their own country's and the world's plunge into disaster.” —HOMERO ARIDJIS, Mexican poet, novelist, ambassador, and environmental activist; president emeritus of PEN International   “Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a mind-opening exposé of the roots and branches of fossil fuel zealots, their campaigns of misinformation, and the rebellion of their descendants. It shows how the misuse of wealth and power can undermine democracy, threaten the health of the planet, and neglect our moral responsibility to future generations.” —SHELDON KRIMSKY, PhD, Lenore Stern Professor of Humanities & Social Sciences, adjunct professor of public health and community medicine, Tufts University, and author of Stem Cell Dialogues: A Philosophical and Scientific Inquiry into Medical Frontiers The post The Visionary Activist Show – May a Renaissance of Sane Reverence Eclipse Dystopia appeared first on KPFA.

Thomas More's Utopia, published 500 years ago this month, is full of radical ideas and has provided food for thought to generations of people trying to find new ways to organise society. On his fictitious island More created a vivid mosaic of places, people and their customs and they have proven to be an inspiration not just for philosophers and politicians but also for writers. To mark the anniversary, BBC World Service and PEN International have asked three young authors, Rebecca F. John, Jose Pablo Salas and Lea Sauer, to take Utopia as a starting point for a new short story. Mr. More's Wondrous Islands also includes a couple of intriguing passages from the original book. It is introduced by Jack Stewart, the readers are John Dougall, Bettrys Jones, Martina Laird and William Marquez and the producer is Radek Bosketty.

Sep. 5, 2015. Mexican poet Homero Aridjis discusses the role of a poet in intellectual life with Gwen Kirkpatrick at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: One of Latin America's foremost literary figures, Homero Aridjis is a writer of poetry, novels and nonfiction who is also well known as an environmental activist, diplomat and former president of PEN International. He has published 47 books of poetry and prose, and his works have been translated into 15 languages. His latest collection of poems available in English is "Solar Poems," and some of his other recent titles are "Eyes to See Otherwise" and "A Time of Angels." Aridjis has been an editorial columnist at La Jornada, Reforma and El Universal, and has published hundreds of articles on environmental, political and literary subjects. He has also organized the Group of 100 and several symposia which gathered prominent artists, writers and intellectuals worldwide to protect the environment and biodiversity, raise environmental awareness and defend freedom of expression. He has received various honors and awards, including two Guggenheim and several other fellowships, the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, the Diana-Novedades Prize, the Grinzane Cavour Prize, the Roger Caillois Prize, the Smederevo Golden Key for Poetry, the Erendira State Prize for the Arts, Italy's International Prize for Poetry and the Natural Resources Defense Council Force for Nature Award. Aridjis has served as Mexico's ambassador to the Netherlands and Switzerland as well as UNESCO, and taught as a visiting professor at Indiana University, New York University, Columbia University and the University of California-Irvine. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6968