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Sean Bw Parker keynote topics are:
- A History of 20th Century Art
- Cancel Culture, Free Speech and Media Bias
- Hidden Disabilities in the Criminal Justice System
- Stammering and Culture
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Keynotes: Please enquireSean Bw Parker
Writer, artist, musician and lecturer on cultural theory, art history and justice reform Send enquiry ›Sean Bw Parker (MA) is a writer, artist and lecturer in art, cultural theory and justice reform. He lived in Istanbul for ten years until 2014 where he lectured at Istanbul University, and gave a TED talk ‘Stammering and Creativity’. He has published or contributed to a number of books, won six Koestler Arts awards (including a platinum for his play The Wolfstadt-Wire) and a Perrie Lectures essay award in 2019. Parker is Editor of False Allegations Watch for the Empower the Innocent organisation (University of Bristol Innocence Project affiliated).
He has been published by the T.S. Eliot Foundation, Time Out Istanbul, Louder Than War and Cosmopolitan, appeared at the Brighton Science Festival, on NTV Turkey and BBC Radio Wales. He has interviewed Julie Burchill, Ed Harcourt, Kristin Hersh, Danny Macnamara and Ian Broudie among others, hosted shows by Mark Morriss, The Members and Eat Static at his Seafish venue on the Sussex coast, and was interviewed for a Sky Arts documentary in 2016.
Sean Bw Parker’s keynote topics
- Stammering and Culture – an analysis on the speech condition, its causes and representations in culture.
- Hidden Disabilities in the Criminal Justice System – how speech impediments, psychological ways of being and autism spectrum conditions impact lives from arrest to being on licence conditions.
- A History of 20th Century Art – from Marcel Duchamp to Tracey Emin, looking at the examples and cultural context of major artistic movements between.
- Cancel Culture, Free Speech and Media Bias – post-Brexit, post-Trump, post-#MeToo and BLM, an analysis of the whys and wherefores of the contemporary ‘culture wars’.