Laura Beers, Orwell's Ghosts
Schedule
Wed, 19 Mar, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
301 York St, Louisville, KY, United States, Kentucky 40203 | Louisville, KY
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Presented by UofL Liberal Studies Visiting ScholarsLaura Beers, Professor of British History at American University
Wednesday, March 19, 7 p.m. • Main Library, 301 York St.
Register at www.LFPL.org/Authors
Seventy-five years after "1984" was first published, Orwell’s ideas and warnings are invoked today by politicians on both the right and the left. But what does ‘Orwellian’ really mean? What would the man himself say about these crises and what can we learn from his ideas? Historian Laura Beers will discuss Orwell in all his complexity, exploring his commitment to political liberty and economic justice, alongside his undeniable chauvinism.
A book signing will follow the event, with books available for purchase from Carmichael’s Bookstore.
Professor Beers is particularly interested in the ways in which politics both influences and is shaped by cultural and social life, and in the role of the mass media in modern society. She is the author of "Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist," "Your Britain: Media and the Making of the Labour Party," and co-edited "Brave New World: Imperial and Democratic Nation-Building in Britain between the Wars."
In addition to her academic work, Prof. Beers has written on British and comparative politics for CNN, the Conversation, the Washington Post’s “Made by History” column, the New Statesman, and the London Review of Books, and contributed to both current affairs and historical programs on the BBC.
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