Speaking: The Spanish Inheritance Hay Fest - Segovia, 26 September 2008

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Series[UMA-SRE-20170009] SPEAKINGAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2017000900697Scope and ContentContains: Invitation, correspondence and schedule on Greer participation in the Hay Spanish Festival, held in Segovia, 25-28/9/2008. Greer gave lecture, 26/9/2008, titled '1968: The Spanish Legacy', and participated in a second in conversation event, 29/9/2008, on the events and repercussions of 1968, for fee of EU5,000, travel and expenses. Her lecture abstract supplied was: "The conventional account of the events of 1968 pays scant attention to the anarchist philosophy that informed much of what was done and said, and how it was done and said. Germaine Greer describes her own anarchist education, and the importance to her and her comrades of the Spanish example". Includes laser print of typescript of lecture, 10 pages, unnumbered, begins: "For some of us May 68 did not come as a bolt from the blue..."; printed extract, 14 pages, from Eddie Conlon, The Spanish Civil war: Anarchism in Action; participants' information pack (in envelope labelled Germaine Greer); other information on the Festival. Correspondents: Germaine Greer; Peter Florence, Hay Festival; Carol Horne (for Germaine Greer); Cristina Fuentes La Roche, Hay Festival; Izara Garcia Rodriguez, Artists Manager, Hay Festival Segovia; Jesse Ingham, Hay Festival. Subjects: Lectures and lecturing; Festivals; Hay-on-Wye Festival; Anarchism; Spain--History; Melbourne Drift; Sydney PushAccess StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2017.0009 Unit 0020

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CreatorGreer, GermaineRoleProvenance

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Date18 July 2008-24 September 2008

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Previous System ID2017.0009.00697

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Speaking: The Spanish Inheritance Hay Fest - Segovia, 26 September 2008