6 July 2011 — Southbank Centre

Where basic freedoms are denied and democratic remedies blocked off, cultural boycott by world civil society is a viable and effective political strategy; indeed a moral imperative.

Supporting the motion will be:

Omar Barghouti – author of BDS: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (Haymarket Press).

Seni Seneviratne – British-Sri Lankan poet and performer, author of Wild Cinnamon and Winter Skin (Peepal Tree Press).

Opposing the motion will be:

Carol Gould – ex-patriate American author, film maker, and ‘a vocal critic of what she sees as increasing anti-Americanism and antisemitism in Britain’.

Jonathan Freedland (tbc) columnist for The Guardian and the Jewish Chronicle, a regular contributor to The New York Times and The New York Review of Books, and the presenter of Radio 4’s The Long View.

Chair:  Jonathan Heawood, Director of English PEN

Book tickets here:

http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/literature-spoken-word/tickets/why-boycott-culture-59398