Counterpoints Lecture with Elif Shafak
When
Saturday, 27 June 2026, 14:00 – 15:00
128 Hoxton Street, London, N1 6SH
Time
14:00 – 15:00
Price
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About this event
Global bestselling writer and renowned activist Elif Shafak explores whether creativity can help heal our divided world in the inaugural Counterpoints lecture. For this first iteration of the annual Counterpoints lecture, Shafak explores how imagination and artistic practice shape our understanding of the world. Full details and tickets from Southbank Centre website Shafak reflects on the link between creativity and courage, and how creativity can open paths to belonging, imagination and collaboration in times of conflict, fear and political division. Drawing on academic, literary critic and activist Edward Said’s concept of the ‘counterpoint’ perspective of displaced people, Shafak considers how artists from regions affected by war, violence and political extremism can offer vital insights and new ways of seeing, questioning and imagining. As part of this, Shafak unravels the idea of ‘storyland’ as a motherland. Elif Shafak is an award-winning and highly acclaimed British-Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into 55 languages. The author of 21 books, including 13 novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and is President of the Royal Society of Literature and a Public Humanities Fellow at the School of Advanced Studies (SAS).
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