Renewal presents: the Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture

Renewal is proud to announce the establishment of a new annual lecture series: the Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture

Dr. Rita Hinden (1909-1971) was a socialist and internationalist activist who played an important role in the intellectual life of the mid-twentieth century Labour Party - most notably as founder of the Fabian Colonial Bureau, secretary of the Socialist Union, and editor of the influential journal Socialist Commentary. After her death, an earlier iteration of the Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture ran from 1972-1981, with speakers including David Marquand, Roy Jenkins, and Michael Young.

Renewal has chosen to revive this Lecture because we believe that Rita Hinden’s life and work embodied a commitment to the kind of holistic, internationalist, and intellectually-engaged social democratic politics that we believe is needed today. Each year, we will invite as our Lecturer a figure from within the labour movement who can speak for these values today.

This year, we are delighted to announce that our inaugural Lecturer will be Dr. Anneliese Dodds MP.

Dr Dodds has been the Labour MP for Oxford East since 2017. During Labour's time in opposition, she served as Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Shadow Chancellor, and Shadow Secretary for Women and Equalities; in government, she served as Minister for International Development and Women and Equalities Minister, until resigning over aid cuts in February of this year. She was also chair of the Labour Party between 2021 and 2024, and a member of the European Parliament between 2014 and 2017.

The Lecture will be held at 7pm on Tuesday 9^th September at City St. George’s University’s campus in Clerkenwell (Room A130).

Attendance is free, but registration is required. Please sign up at the link below:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/renewal-presents-rita-hinden-memorial-lecture-tickets-1591591967419?

Doors will open at 6:30 for a 7:00 start.

We very much hope to be able to welcome you there.