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SUMMARY:MITRE OR MAO CAP: ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU AS PERFORMER - A PRESCIE
 NT ACTIVISM? - John Allen
DTSTART:20180220T170000Z
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CONTACT:Rozelle
DESCRIPTION:South African journalist John Allen had a unique lifelong prof
 essional and personal relationship with 'the Arch'\, and was intimately in
 volved in some of the most dramatic events during the fall of apartheid in
  the 1980s\, before being Communications Director for the Truth and Reconc
 iliation Commission and Managing Editor of Africa's largest news website\,
  AllAfrica.com. Allen will discuss the aspects of Tutu's character\, attit
 udes and values - especially his early grasp of image-management politics 
 - which helped him play such an effective role in the fall of apartheid in
  the 1980s. Tutu's story asks what it means to publicly perform\, and how 
 media attention works as a political force - topical questions today.\n\nA
 fter excerpts of raw documentary footage from the 1980s\, we will explore 
 the thinking behind John's authorised biography of Tutu\, Rabble-Rouser fo
 r Peace (2006)\, and behind the screenplay based on the book\, discussing 
 medium\, the media\, and politics with the BBC's Louise Blythe\, who runs 
 the training programmes which keep the BBC up to date with the skills to t
 ell stories in the digital era - from social media to news to commissioner
 s to platform-designers. Chaired by Clare Foster.\n\nSays Allen: 'Tutu und
 erstood the power of the press as an agent of change. He was always consci
 ous of playing a part\, whether in a pulpit\, in vestments\, in a Mao cap\
 , or wearing a rich Republican green jersey in Ulster. He was "a stageprop
 "\, as he put it\, helping draw attention to friends' causes'. At the same
  time\, he understood race and identity as a public matter in which all of
  us are always participating\, even in our most personal choices and priva
 te moments.\n\nThis is a public event to which all are welcome.\n\nhttp://
 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/assets/general/CIPN_Africa.jpeg\n\nFor more informati
 on about this event and CIPN\, see  http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/275
 54\n\nTo subscribe to the CIPN seminar mailing list\, visit  https://lists
 .cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-performance-network \; to post events rel
 ating to the concept of performance to the CIPN mailing list\, send to  Uc
 am-performance-network@lists.cam.ac.uk .\n
LOCATION:Alison Richards Building\, Rm SG1 7\, West Road Cambridge CB3 9DT
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