UEA LiveUEA Live, a festival of ideas held at the University of East Anglia, welcoming the world’s finest writers and thinkers to Norwich since 1991. 1) Lyndsey Stonebridge: We Are Free to Change the WorldDescriptionWednesday 8 May | 6.30pm, The Enterprise Centre, UEA With social injustice so prominent and geopolitics inflecting to the right and far right, never has a vocabulary of resistance and freedom been so necessary. Lyndsey Stonebridge will be addressing issues from her new book on Hannah Arendt titled We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience with UEA’s Rachel Potter. Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience (2024); Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees (2018); winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title; The Judicial Imagination: Writing After Nuremberg, which won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Literature; and the essay collection, Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights. She is a regular media commentator and broadcaster, and lives in London. £10 Standard £8 Concessions £5 Students
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