Free Public Lecture
‘Rent and refuge: Scotland’s street-wise history of sanctuary and solidarity’
Professor Alison Phipps
University of Glasgow
Wednesday 21 August 2019, 3.30pm
Burns 5 Lecture Theatre, Arts/Burns Building, Albany Street, University of Otago
Please join us for the fifth talk of the 2019 De Carle Distinguished Lecture Series, co-hosted with the History and Art History Programme and Politics Programme.
From Iona to Mary Barbour in Govan, from the poll-tax to the dawn raids, Glasgow has given Scotland a model which bucks the trends for large industrial cities in Britain, and has shaped grassroots action which speak to a certain political history. This talk will examine the movements of resistance and political change that have been a direct challenge to the hostile environment policy of the May government.
