Ai Weiwei on human rights, the climate crisis, creativity and hope | In Conversation with Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch

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How To Understand Our Times: Ai Weiwei In Conversation With Kenneth Roth and Helene Cooper
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Mon, 3rd Feb 2020
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** Artist and activist Ai Weiwei meets Human Rights Watch CEO Kenneth Roth and New York Times journalist Helene Cooper to explore how human creativity can address global crises.
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>From climate change to migration, populism to human rights abuses, the crises of the 21st century are global in magnitude, revealing the delicate web of connections that bind nations and citizens, individuals and ecosystems. Faced with tyranny and violence, to say nothing of the inordinate complexity of our times, can an artist really hope to make a difference? Does human creativity truly have the power to change our world for the better?

Ai Weiwei is living proof that it does. Raised in a labour camp and later beaten, surveilled and imprisoned on trumped-up charges by the Chinese state, Ai has dedicated his life to the struggle against corruption and oppression of all kinds. As a conceptual artist and activist fighting for justice, he has become an icon in his own lifetime, renowned world-wide for his work promoting freedom of thought and expression, compassion, and humanitarian values.

For one unmissable night at the How To Academy, Ai will be joined in conversation by Kenneth Roth, CEO of Human Rights Watch – an NGO investigating and reporting abuses in five continents. From the Syrian Civil War to the Rohingya Crisis, US immigration to the South Sudan Conflict, the lawyers, journalists and country experts of Human Rights Watch help hold abusers to account and bring justice to victims.

Weiwei and Kenneth will be hosted by Helene Cooper, a Pentagon correspondent for The New York Times and herself a refugee to the United States, having fled a military coup in Liberia aged 14.


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Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist and activist. Ai collaborated with architects Herzog & de Meuron as consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics. As an activist, he has been openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights.
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Kenneth Roth is the executive director of Human Rights Watch. Roth served as a federal prosecutor in New York and for the Iran-Contra investigation in Washington, DC. A graduate of Yale Law School and Brown University, Roth has conducted numerous human rights investigations and missions around the world. He has written extensively on a wide range of human rights abuses.
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Helene Cooper is a Pentagon correspondent with The New York Times. In 2015, she was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, for her work in Liberia during the Ebola epidemic. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood.

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