SIAH Public Life: Sayed Mossadeq Khalili Event

Sayed Mossadeq Khalili is an archaeologist having held roles as Deputy Minister of Culture, Ambassador to the Czech Republic, and as Director of the Institute of Diplomacy in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul. He will be in conversation with Alison Gascoigne, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton.

About SIAH Public Life

Arts and Humanities have always been crucial to the idea of the 'public life': the public is valorised as the realm of collective debate and decision-making, of community and solidarity, of art and culture. Such concepts, of course, have always been contested and never more so than right now. The electronic capture of the commons, the removal of boundaries between work and home, the policing of public spaces, the onslaught of the culture wars, the hold of big data and surveillance, the spectacles of populist politics have all changed the meanings, the spaces and the limits of the public sphere.

SIAH: Public Life draws a range of leading intellectuals into conversation about what the ideal of the 'public life' can mean to Arts and Humanities researchers and disciplines in the twenty-first century.