What do we owe to distant strangers? For cosmopolitans, who think of themselves as citizens of the world, this is a pressing question. How does justice operate from a global perspective? What duties do nation-states have to worldwide notions of fairness and equality? This evening, ponder these urgent ethical and political questions, and explore what it really means to be a cosmopolitan.

Lea Ypi

Speaker

Lea Ypi is a professor of political theory at the London School of Economics. Her latest book, Free: Coming of Age at the End of History (2021), was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Costa Biography Award, and won the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, and is being translated into 19 languages.

Lea can be found on Twitter, Instagram, and her LSE personal webpage.

Katie Barlow

Artist

Katie Barlow is a filmmaker and photographer who has produced, directed, filmed and edited TV and cinema documentaries, NGO films, experimental shorts, music promos and gallery installations. In the Middle East, she filmed Jeremy Hardy vs the Israeli Army (2003); directed the BBC documentary Israel’s Terror Bus (2004), as well as a feature-length film Visit Palestine (2005), which was shortlisted for the Grierson and Rory Peck awards.

She spent 2016 to 2019 travelling between Lesvos, Dunkirk and Calais, documenting the plight of refugees, producing work for the Refugee Council, the BBC, Channel 4, Ai Weiwei and UNHCR, with a particular interest in unaccompanied minors and resettlement. Photographs produced during this period were selected for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in London. She is currently producing her first virtual reality film working with two young Afghan brothers while continuing to work on a freelance basis producing photographic assignments for UNHCR.

Katie’s work can be viewed on her website.

Joseph Tawadros

Artist

Joseph Tawadros AM is a leading oud virtuoso, composer and six-time ARIA Award winner. Joseph was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia in 2016. Born in Cairo, his chosen instrument, the oud, is an Arabic lute. He is established as one of the world’s leading oud performers and composers. A virtuoso of diversity and sensitivity, Joseph performs in concert halls worldwide and is known for his brilliant technique, deep musicianship and joyous style of performance.

Joseph’s drive to push musical boundaries has inspired collaborations with diverse performers and a solid repertoire of innovative, original music. He performs live as a soloist, as a duo with his brother James on Egyptian percussion, with his jazz quartet or with chamber orchestras and symphony orchestras all over the world. Joseph has performed his works with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, BBC Symphony, Melbourne, WA and Adelaide Symphony, Ukraine National Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg and the Academy of Ancient Music. His Concerto for Oud & Orchestra with Sydney Symphony was performed and released by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2019.

Joseph can be found on Twitter, Instagram and his official website. His compositions can be listened to on streaming platforms including Apple Music and Spotify.

Nigel Warburton

Host

Nigel Warburton has devoted much of his adult life to promoting public philosophy through his books, newspaper and magazine articles, radio programs, the highly successful Philosophy Bites podcast, and as a consultant senior editor at Aeon+Psyche. He is delighted to be hosting Sophia Club live events in London.