Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture: Yuan Yang MP
Dear Subscribers and Friends of Renewal.
We are delighted to announce this year's Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture will be given by Yuan Yang MP.
Yuan Yang is the Labour MP for Earley and Woodley, and currently serves as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Before standing for Parliament, she spent eight years working as a journalist at the Financial Times, where she was previously FT Europe-China correspondent, and before that their Beijing deputy bureau chief.
Yuan is an economist by training, and after her master's degree, founded Rethinking Economics, a charity that campaigns to make economics teaching more relevant to the real world. In 2024 she published her first book, Private Revolutions, which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. The book describes China's economic transformation and the rise and fall of social mobility, told through the coming-of-age stories of four millennial Chinese women.
The Lecture will be held at 6.30pm on Wedesnday 9th September at City St. George’s University’s campus in Clerkenwell (College Building, 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 6:00 for a 6:30 start. We will also be holding drinks afterwards.
We very much hope to be able to welcome you there.
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.