Scruton Lecture: When Cowed Creatives Capitulate: Conformity and Bad Art - Lionel Shriver (In Conversation with Ruth Dudley Edwards)
This annual series of free public lectures will honour Sir Roger Scruton's legacy by inviting eminent public intellectuals to speak on four topics of civilisational importance
Sir Roger Scruton (1944-2020) was one of the most distinguished polymaths of modern times. His work ranged over philosophy, music and aesthetics to politics, religion and law. This annual series of free public lectures will honour his legacy by inviting eminent public intellectuals to speak on four topics of civilisational importance.
Lionel Shriver is a world-renowned author and journalist. She has written fifteen novels including We Need to Talk About Kevin (Serpent's Tail, 2003) which won the 2005 Orange Prize and was adapted into the eponymous 2011 film. She is widely published in the British press and is a columnist for The Spectator. Her most recent novel is Should We Stay or Should We Go (HarperCollins, 2021) and her non-fiction collection, Abominations: Selected Essays From a Career of Courting Self-Destruction, was published by Borough Press in 2022.
Ruth Dudley Edwards is an award-winning historian, biographer and crime fiction writer. Her journalism is published regularly across the British and Irish press in the Telegraph, Sunday Independent and The News Letter. Her Amiss and Troutbeck novels have won multiple prizes, as have her numerous works of non-fiction including Patrick Pearse: The Triumph of Failure (Irish Academic Press, 2006) and Victor Gollancz: A Biography (Faber, 2012). Her most recent history is The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic (Oneworld, 2016).
Ticket Information
Free to attend however registration needed in advance!
Additional Information
All ages welcome
Doors will open from 16:30
Running time: 17:00-18:30
No interval
No latecomers permitted
