Julian Baggini, Haifa Zangana, Rosie Goldsmith

Global Cultural Understanding with The British Academy

Description

The British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding celebrates the best works of non-fiction that have contributed to public understanding of world cultures.

Now in its 11th year, the prestigious £25,000 prize champions books that all speak directly to the urgent challenges of our times, from racism to the growing climate crisis. The British Academy is the UK’s national academy for humanities and social sciences, and eligible books come from a wide range of subjects, including archaeology, history and psychology.

This special BLF event in partnership with The British Academy, ahead of the announcement of this year’s winner in November, brings together an inspirational panel of writers to discuss their work, including Julian Baggini, author of How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy, and novelist Haifa Zangana.

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About the Speakers

julian baggini

Julian Baggini

Dr Julian Baggini is the author, co-author or editor of over 20 books including The Godless Gospel, How The World Thinks, The Virtues of the Table and The Ego Trick and, most recently, How to Think Like a Philosopher (all Granta). He has served as Academic Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Kent and has been a member of the Food Ethics Council since 2016.

Haifa Zangana

Haifa Zangana is an Iraqi author and activist. Among her books: Women on a Journey: Between Baghdad and London, Dreaming of Baghdad and City of widows: an Iraqi woman account of war and resistance and The Torturer in the Mirror with Ramsey Clark. She edited “Party for Thaera; Palestinian women writing life “, a collection of non-fictional creative writings by former Palestinian women prisoners.

Rosie Goldsmith

Rosie Goldsmith

Rosie Goldsmith is an award-winning journalist and presenter, specialising in arts and foreign affairs. A BBC staff journalist for twenty years, she travelled the world. Today she combines journalism with chairing and curating cultural events. Known as a champion of international literature, translation and languages, she promotes them whenever she can. She is Director of the European Literature Network and Editor-in-Chief of The Riveter magazine.