09:00
King's College London
June 4
King's Building Room: Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre KIN G37 Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
Award-winning journalist, writer and broadcaster Samira Ahmed delivers a keynote speech at the Digital Futures Institute's Festival of Storytelling.
Physical books, vinyl records, cinema on big screens, drama and art classes at school. There's a real moral anxiety about the decline of these traditional art forms.
In this talk, Samira Ahmed, who began her career in a world of reel-to-reel tape recorders and broadsheet newspapers reflects on the new "slow" media revolution and where storytelling goes from here.
The keynote speech will be followed by the announcement of the shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year, 2026.
Award-winning journalist, writer and broadcaster Samira Ahmed presents Front Row on Radio 4, Newswatch on BBC One and is the author of a BFI Film Classics book on the Beatles’ first film A Hard Day’s Night. Samira is also President of the Twentieth Century Society, which campaigns to protect modern architectural heritage and design. She co-hosts the TV history podcast Through the Square Window and writes a column for New Humanist magazine. Samira is a trustee of the Centre for Women’s Justice.