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Global Free Expression in the Internet Age: Challenges and Opportunities

19 Apr 2012

 

The internet and mobile phones offer the four billion people unprecedented chances for free expression. What should be the norms for freedom of expression in such a transformed world? What are the legitimate limits to free speech? The Faculty of Social Sciences of The University of Hong Kong is pleased to announce that a Lecture entitled "Global Free Expression in the Internet Age: Challenges and Opportunities" will be held on April 20, 2012.  During the Lecture, Professor Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford, will present a major Oxford University research project on this subject (freespeechdebate.com) and discuss its implications for Asia and the West.

Media representatives are cordially invited to attend the Lecture, details of which are as follows: 
Date:          April 20, 2012
Time:         6:30pm (tea reception at 6:00pm)
Venue:       Rayson Huang Theatre, The University of Hong Kong

Should you require to arrange an individual interview with Professor Garton Ash or have any questions, please feel free to contact Miss Vanessa Sit, Faculty of Social Sciences of HKU on 2859 2983 or email at vansit@hku.hk

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Biography of Professor Timothy Garton Ash

Timothy Garton Ash is the author of nine books of political writing or "History of the Present" which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last thirty years.  He is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.  His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and he writes a weekly column in the Guardian which is widely syndicated in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Honours he has received for his writing include the David Watt Memorial Prize, Commentator of the Year in the 'What the Papers Say' annual awards for 1989, the Premio Napoli, the Imre Nagy Memorial Plaque, the Hoffmann von Fallersleben Prize for political writing, the Order of Merit from Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, and the British CMG.  In 2005, he featured in a list of 100 top global public intellectuals chosen by the journals Prospect and Foreign Policy, and in Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people.  In 2006, he was awarded the George Orwell Prize for political writing.