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As a part of the Baltic Bridges Workshop and Sleepwalkers Student and Short Film Festival this years programme Brian Palmer is giving an exclusive open lecture about what can our bravest contemporaries and fallen friends teach us about how to live. Sophie Scholl left her classes to secretly distribute pamphlets  against Adolf Hitler; eleven-year-old Malala Yousafzai lived amidst  the Taliban while blogging about their brutality. Anthropologist Brian Palmer is haunted by such individuals who risk everything for a more  humane world. He gathers wisdom from heroic lives and applies it to  everyday questions of surviving as an idealist in an unforgiving  world.

Brian Palmer is a social anthropologist at Uppsala University in Sweden. Previously he held the Torgny Segerstedt Guest Professorship at Gothenburg University, and before that he taught at Harvard. His courses there on civic courage and engagement attracted as many as 600 students per term, and in 2002 Brian was awarded the Levenson Prize as Harvard’s best lecturer. The book Global Values 101 is based on Brian’s Harvard courses. His doctoral dissertation, also at Harvard, explored Swedish conceptions of solidarity. In 2006, he and Per-Anders Forstorp published a book about rhetoric and symbolism in Swedish political campaigns. Brian has also done a study of how time pressures are recasting Swedes’ inner lives. He and Ola Larsmo have newly published the book, 101 historiska hjältar (101 historical heroes), with English and Korean editions to follow.

Lecture is in English, without translation.

Ticket 5€. Discounted ticket for Tallinn University students and personnel 2€
Entrance for festival pass holders and for Baltic Bridges workshop attendants is FREE!

Tickets are available before the lecture and at the Sleepwalkers information desks (Astra and Nova buildings).

Everybody is welcome!

Additional information:

Liina Paakspuu
E-mail: liina@swff.ee
Phone: +372 554 4016