Professor David Peimer
Gertrude Bell: Radical Influencer of British Imperial Middle Eastern Policy
Summary
Gertrude Bell was unique; a writer, traveller, explorer, highly influential British Empire Middle East policy maker, archaeologist. She was friendly with the young Churchill, T. E. Lawrence and many others. She was fiercely intelligent and independent, one of the first Oxford University female graduates and greatly valued and esteemed by Empire leaders in London and abroad. In this talk, David Peimer looks at her fascinating life and achievements, and reflect on her influence today.
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.