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September 27th

Prof Rosemary Hollis Professor of Middle East Policy Studies

City University London

‘Troubled Times in the Eastern Mediterranean’

October 4th Kate Barker CBE Senior Adviser, Credit Suisse and former member, Monetary Policy Committee

‘Housing: A Perpetual British Problem?’

October 11th

marking Keele University Charter Year

Sir Michael Aaronson Introduction by Rama Thirunamachandran, Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Professorial Research Fellow, University of Surrey

‘Rethinking International Intervention’

October 18th

Paul Farrelly MP Member, Select

Committee Culture, Media & Sport

‘The Freedom of the Media’

October 25th Noman Benotman President Quilliam Foundation

‘The Future of Libya’

November 1st

Dr Martin Ruhs Director, The Migration Observatory University of Oxford

‘Immigration in the UK – Impacts & Policies’

November 8th

Prof David Anderson Professor of African Politics University of Oxford

‘Living in a bad neighbourhood?

Conflict and politics in eastern Africa’

November 15th Prof Feona Attwood Professor of Sex, Communications & Culture Middlesex University

‘Asking the Right Questions About the Sex Industry

November 22nd Dr Robin Porter Visiting Professor University of Bristol

‘The legacy of the May 4th Movement: Has Mr Science Murdered Mr Democracy?’

November 29th

Prof Kevin Anderson

Professor of Energy and Climate Change University of Manchester

‘Going Beyond Dangerous Climate Change: Exploring the Void between Rhetoric and Reality’

December 6th Dr John Whittaker Visiting Professor Lancaster University Management School

‘The Euro Crisis’

December 13th

marking Keele University Charter Year

Prof Stephen White Introduction by Prof David Shepherd, Pro V-C & Dean of Humanities & Social Sciences

James Bryce Professor of Politics University of Glasgow

‘Is Russia a Democracy?’

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January 10th Prof Patrick Minford

Professor of Applied Economics Cardiff Business School

‘After the Bank Crisis: Are We Throwing the Baby Out With the Bath Water?’

January 17th Chris Leslie MP Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury

Re-making the City: Banking After the Crisis

January 24th

7:15 p.m. Ian Lucas MP Shadow FCO Minister for

Africa and the Middle East

‘The Middle East’

January 31st Tim Jones Policy Officer, Jubilee Debt Campaign

’30 Years of Debt Crisis & the Need for the JDC’

February 7th Prof Paul Rogers Professor of Peace Studies Bradford University

‘What Happened to the Arab Spring?’

February 14th Dr David Dunn Fellow, SPIRE Keele University

‘What About International Relations?’

February 21st Professor The Lord Norton of Louth

Professor of Government University of Hull

‘The Future of the House of Lords’

February 28th Tim Hancock Director, Amnesty International

‘Fighting the Battle for Human Rights’

March 7th Prof Richard Luther

Prof of Comparative Politics, SPIRE Keele University

‘Do We Need Political Parties?’

March 14th Prof Calum Paton Professor of Public Policy Keele University

‘The Re-Re-Reform of the NHS’

March 21st Prof Klaus Dodds Prof of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway University

‘The Antarctic’

March 28th Will Hutton Principal, Hertford College Oxford Economist, journalist, author

‘Why The West Keeps Winning’

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September 29th

Lord Wilson of Dinton GCB

Former Cabinet Secretary & Head of the Home Civil Service, Master of Emmanuel College

‘Good Government?’

October 6th Prof Rob Canton Professor of Community and Criminal Justice De Montfort University

‘Righting Wrongs: The Purposes & Meanings of Punishment’

October 13th Patrick Burns Political Editor BBC Midlands

‘The Lobbying System’

October 20th Prof Robert Ladrech Professor of European Politics Keele University

'Party Politics and the European Union'

October 27th Prof Victor Bulmer-Thomas CMG OBE

Royal Institute for International Affairs [Chatham House]

‘Out of the Shadow: Latin America in the 21st Century’

November 3rd Prof Jon Herbert Programme Director for Politics Keele University

‘The 2012 U.S. Presidential Election’

November 10th

Andrew Haldenby Director, Reform Think Tank ‘Improving Public Services While Reducing The Deficit’

November 17th

The Rt Hon The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley OStJ

Deputy Leader UKIP

‘Climate Change: The Sceptic’s View’

November 24th

Brian Rockliffe OBE Director, VSO UK [Voluntary Service Overseas]

‘Can International Volunteering Move Beyond Neo-Colonialism?’

December 1st Prof Anne Worrall Dr Rob Mawby

Keele University Leicester University

‘Probation Officers: Occupational Cultures & Offender Management’

December 8th His Excellency Ünal Çeviköz

The Turkish Embassy ‘Turkey’

December 15th

Prof Nigel Bell Prof of Environmental Pollution Imperial College London

‘Hidden effects of air pollution: Do they threaten food security in the developing world?’

Please note that although this course is dedicated to the principle of free political debate, you must however have the tolerance to accept that others may hold opposite views

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January 12th Margit Hosseini Cultural Attaché, German Embassy ‘Germany & Europe’

January 19th Dr Dan Plesch School of Oriental & African Studies University of London

‘UN: Then and Now’

January 26th Prof Ali Ansari St Andrews University ‘Iran’

February 2nd Prof Jim Waddington Wolverhampton University ‘A Virtuous Exception: The MacPherson Enquiry Into the Stephen Lawrence Murder’

February 9th Robin Porter’s lecture on ‘China’ is postponed

Tickets available for World Affairs members to Chancellor’s lecture at 6:00 p.m.

February 16th Dr John Reade Harper Adams University College ‘A Future for Organic Farming in the UK?’

February 23rd Graham Smith Campaign Manager Republican Movement

‘Do We Need The Monarchy?’

March 1st Dr John Bew Kings College London ‘British Foreign Policy: A Historian’s View’

March 8th Prof Lord Hennessey of Nympsfield

Prof of Contemporary British History Queen Mary College U of London

‘The Secret State’

March 15th John Coutouvidis Academic and author ‘Greeks & Poles in Tanganyika!’

March 22nd Lord Rees of Ludlow Master of Trinity College, Emeritus Prof of Cosmology & Astrophysics, University of Cambridge Astronomer Royal, Past President, The Royal Society

'Surviving the Century'

March 29th Prof Martin Parker Prof of Industrial Relations, Warwick University

‘Against Management’

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September 30th Prof. Paul Rogers

Bradford University “Where has the new American century gone?”

October 7th John Levy Director, Academic Study Group on Israel and the Middle East

“Israel- Palestine”.

October 14th Mike Brereton Chairman N. Staffs University Hospital

The problems facing the N.H.S.

October 21st Ghaffar Hussain Quilliam Foundation “Terrorism”.

October 28th Prof. Michael Clarke Director R.U.S.I “Afghanistan”.

November 4th

Prof Andy Dobson Keele University “The Environment”.

November 11th Geraint Vincent

War Correspondent I.T.N

With our troops in Afghanistan!

November 18th Dr. John. Reade

Harper- Adams College

Future of GM crops in the UK?

November 25th Bill Ridgway World Affairs Population......... ....the Elephant in the Room?

December 2nd Rolf Richardson

Historian Attack on Norway 1940.

December 9th Prof. Mick Temple

Staffordshire University

The Media and the message.

December 16th Prof. Philip Stenning Keele University “How to do Justice?”

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January 13th Margit Hosseini German Embassy

“German Today”.

January 20th Dr. Philip Stenning Keele University

Community, Politics and resistance; a snapshot of Vancouver Downtown, East Side

January 27th Dr Marie Breen- Smyth

Aberystwyth University

Does Western foreign policy lead to moral injury in our troops?.

February 3rd Dr. Jackie Sheehan Nottingham University “China”

February 10th Dr. Matthew Flinders Sheffield University

In Defence of Politics.

February 17th Dr Sita Bali Staffordshire University

Pakistan & Afghanistan

February 24th Prof. Malcolm Crook Keele University

The Rise of the Extreme Right in Europe, should we be worried?

March 3rd Mike Cunningham

Chief Constable of Staffordshire

From local to Global the Policing Mission!

March 10th Dr Maggie O’Neill Durham University

“Asylum, Migration and the community”.

March 17th Prof. Charles Townshend

Keele University

The Iraq Rebellion of 1920.

March 24th Prof Klaus Dodds Royal Holloway University

The Contemporary Geopolitics of the Arctic.

March 31st Dr David Dunn Keele University Redefining Politics.

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October 1st Dr J Herbert

Keele University The ‘Obama’ Administration

October 8th Prof A Coyle Kings College London

The Role of Prison in a Democratic Society

October 15th Rt Hon M. Meacher M.P

House of Commons

The Key Challenges facing the Planet

October 22nd Prof R Hollis

City University London

Israel – Palestine, is it to late for a two state solution

October 29th The Rt Rev G Mursell Bishop of Stafford Religion & Myth- Faith in a Changing World

November 5th Prof A Kapcia

Nottingham University

CUBA

November 12th The Rt Hon P Kilfoyle M.P

House of Commons

Britain in The World

November 19th Prof J Radford

University of East London

Not by Bread Alone: Religion, Spirituality and Virtue

November 26th Charlotte Marshall Christian Aid Conflict, Development and Social Justice in the Holy Land

December 3rd Mary Colwell

Environmental consultant to the Bishops of England and Wales .

Can the Pope save the World?

December 10th Prof Ian Cook

John Moors University Liverpool

CHINA

December 17th Jonathan Stanley Manager, National Children’s Bureau

What works in residential Child Care

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January 14th Jon Moulton Alchemy Venture Capital

Will we ever recover?

January 21st C Doyle C.A.A.B.U.

Palestine-Israel

January 28th T Hancock Amnesty Int We aim to expose Injustice and abuse of Human rights world wide

February 4th R Noon John Moors University Liverpool

From love lane Liverpool to Illinois a bitter sweet story of our Globalised times

February 11th Dr A Kauders Keele University

The strange exchange of gifts: Germany and Jews

February 18th J Cluddas M.P House of Commons

Subject to be agreed

February 25th Prof A Walker Sheffield University

Fairness in an ageing Society

March 4th R McKenzie Regional Secretary of UNISON West Midlands

‘Public Services in the Recession’

March 11th D Dunne Keele University

Sport?

March 18th Rht F Field M.P House of Commons

Subject to be agreed

March 25th Dr E Dawson Keele University Beyond the other : Changing cultural & Global identities.

April 1st M Tappin Keele University The future of Government in Stoke- on-Trent

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October 2nd Prof P Rodgers Bradford University The Failure of the

War on Terror

October 9th Chris Sims Chief Constable of Staffordshire

Policing Accountability and Performance

October 16th Jasvinda Sanghera Karma Nirvana Forced Marriages

October 23rd Mr Hart Nelson Diplomat American Embassy

American Foreign Policy

October 30th RT Rev Jonathon Gledhill

Bishop of Lichfield The Church and Politics

November 6th Dr D Plesch Birbeck College How the United Nations beat Hitler!

November 13th Peter Good Anarchism Lancastium

Anarchism

November 20th Rodger Mckenzie Trades union Congress

The Role of the T.U.C in the 21st

Century November 27th Moazzam Begg Former detainee at

Guantanamo Bay Guantanamo Bay

December 4th Tim Hancock Amnesty International

The work of Amnesty International

December 11th Dr Nina Casperson Lancaster University

The Politics of unrecognised States

December 18th Prof M Crook Keele University France

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January 8th Rt Rev A Smith Bishop of Shrewsbury Growing up in a multi

faith Britain

January 15th Dr S Scott Liverpool University Immigration

January 22nd C Marshall Christian Aid Conflict Development and Social Justice in the Holy Land

January 29th Prof J McGuire Nottingham University The Falklands War

February 5th Jonathan Stanley National Childrens Bureau

What works in Residential Child Care

February 12th Prof A Danchev Nottingham University War Photography

February 19th Jonty Bloom Economics Editor for BBC Radio 4

Globalisation and the economy

February 26th Prof T Doyle Keele University International Justice and Security in the Indian Ocean region

March 5th Dr J Herbert Keele University The Bush Presidency

March 12th Achim Holzenberger Diplomat German Embassy

The German Economy

March 19th Ron Noon Liverpool University Sugar Tate and Lyle

March 26th Prof A Coyle Kings College London The Role of Prison in a Democratic Society

April 2nd Dr R Jackson Aberystwyth University Torture and the war on Terror.

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September 27th Carne Ross Independent Diplomat

The End of Diplomacy?

October 4th Aidan McQuade Director of Anti-Slavery Movement

Slavery in the 21st Century

October 11th John Levy Academic Institute

Israel-Palestine

October 18th Francesca Unsworth Head of BBC News Gathering

Is Journalism Getting Too Dangerous?

October 25th Sir Trevor MacDonald ITN Presenter and News Broadcaster

Just Reminiscing!

November 1st Dr Claire Spencer Director Middle East Affairs, Chatham House

Iran

November 8th Baroness Margaret Jay House of Lords

Changing Roles for Women in the 21st Century

November 15th A. Gitesh Sarma Minister (Political) Indian Embassy

Indian Foreign Policy

November 22nd Lord Willoughby de Broke

House of Lords

Britain and Europe

November 29th Auxiliary Bishop William Kenney

Catholic Bishop of Birmingham

Are European Values British Values?

December 6th Sir Alan Munro Former Ambassador to Saudi-Arabia

Britain’s Relations with the Gulf States

December 13th Prof Azrini Wahidin Birmingham University

Old Offenders

2008 January 3rd Annual Dinner Keele Hall Lord Pearson of

Rannoch January 10th Mary Colwell BBC ‘Wild Life’

Producer Natural History Documentary: Smoke, Mirror and the

Truth January 17th David Dunn Keele University The Mess We are In January 24th Hilary Fisher Director Children in

Poverty The Plight of Children in Poverty

January 31st Professor N Wheeler Aberystwyth University

Humanitarian Intervention

February 7th Professor J Keiger Salford University France and International Relations

February 14th Professor G Newey Keele University Political Deception February 21st Professor J Slobada Keele University Protecting Civilians in

Conflict. Are we doing enough?

February 28th Professor P Stenning

Keele University Can Crime Be Prevented?

March 6th Dr M Breen-Smyth Aberystwyth University

Geographies of Conflict: Segregation and Political Violence!

March 13th Chris Doyle Director, British Arab Understanding

The Palestine Problem

March 20th Wyn Jones Governor Dovegate Prison

Does Our Penal System Need Reforming?

April 17th Dr D Plesch Birbeck University How the United Nations beat Hitler!

April 24th Dr J Sheenan Nottingham University China May 1st Professor L Scott Aberystwyth

University Nuclear Weapons

May 8th Professor B White Leicester University British Foreign Policy After Iraq

May 15th Dr M O’Neill Loughborough University

Immigration

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September 28th Prof Paul Rogers Bradford University

“A War Too Far”

October 5th Prof D Stevenson L.S.E. War and Peace in the 20th Century

October 12th Dr C Spence Director Middle East Studies Chatham House

“Iran”

October 19th Dr D Nussbuam Transparency International Berlin

World Wide Corruption!

October 26th Sir Digby Jones Chief Ext C.B.I. Globalisation – Threat or Opportunity?

November 2nd Lembit Öpik Lib Dem MP Northern Ireland November 9th Anas Altikriti Moslem Council “Iraq” – a case

point of Western Moral and Ethical Decline

November 16th Bruce Kent Vice President, Nuclear Disarmament

Getting rid of Nuclear Weapons and War

November 23rd Dr G Watts Science and Medical Author BBC Broadcaster

Mice, Molecules, Men. Moral Ethics and Biological Medicine

November 30th Prof Alex Danchev Nottingham University

Terror and Torture

December 7th Prof M Temple Staffordshire University

Politics and the Media

December 14th Dr Tim Jones Innovara, London and Amsterdam

The World in 2026!

December 21st Lindsay Whitehouse

Deputy Governor Werrington Young Offenders’ Institute

Dealing with Young Offenders

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January 4th Annual Dinner Keele Hall Sir Stephen Lander – Director General Serious Crime Squad; Former Head MI5

January 11th Werner Sabiers German Journalist Germany Today January 18th Prof L Scott Aberystwyth

University Intelligence in Crisis from Sept 11 to Iraq!

January 25th Dr S McKenzie Keele University Looting the World’s Culture Heritage

February 1st Dr M Breen Smyth Aberystwyth University

Reconstruction – Northern Ireland, South Africa and the Middle East

February 8th Dr P Bou-Habib Essex University Justice for the Old and Young

February 15th Prof D Dorling Sheffield University The World as You Have Never Seen It Before

February 22nd Dr M O’Neill Loughborough University

Immigration

March 1st Prof P Styles Keele University King Coal is Buried but is he Dead Yet?!

March 8th Dr P Fysh Nottingham Trent University

Racism in France

March 15th Dr D Maxwell Keele University Zimbabwe March 22nd Prof N Wheeler Aberystwyth

University Humanitarian Intervention

March 29th Dr D Dunn Keele University Thinking about Peace

Easter Break May 3rd Lord Carlisle QC House of Lords Terrorism and Civil

Liberties – Where Now and Next?

May 10th Dr S Sharma Keele University India May 17th Prof M Dando Bradford University Biological Warfare “There is a lot of evil in mankind And we have to be constantly vigilant to combat it But there is a lot of good in mankind And properly nurtured it will always triumph!” Gandhi

September 29th Prof M Clarke Kings College,

London If there is a war on terror, who’s winning?

October 6th Sir Brian Barder London The war on civil rights and terrorism.

October 13th Dr Dauod Abdulah Moslem League Iraq!

October 20th Prof M Zander London School of Economics

Does our jury system need revising?

October 27th Dr S French Keele University

Asylum and Immigration

November 3rd Dr M Allen Criminal Case Review Commission

To see that justice is done!

November 10th Professor J Tonge Salford University The new politics of Northern Ireland

November 17th Sir Brian Crowe London “An EU foreign minister”

November 24th Prof A Geddes Sheffield University

The rise of European scepticism

December 1st David Renton Former TUC Member

British facism, the Labour movement and the state

December 8th Canon J Elford Liverpool Cathedral

Divisions in the Church?

December 15th John Levy Academic Studies Group, London

Israel & Palestine, an Israeli perception

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January 5th Annual Dinner Keele Hall Dan Plesch

January 12th Professor Andrew Dobson

Open University Ecological Debt

January 19th Prof J Dumbrell Leicester Univ American Foreign Policy

January 26th Prof B White Warwick Univ Understanding European Foreign Policy

February 2nd Dr Sita Bali Staffs Univ India

February 9th Peter Reitzer German Embassy Anglo/German Relations

February 16th Sir Stephen Lander Director ‘Serious Organised Crime Agency’

Combating Serious Organised Crime

February 23rd Charlotte Bretherton Liverpool John Moores University

The European Union: A Force for good in the world?

March 2nd Dr Jackie Sheehan Nottingham Univ China

March 9th Prof Malcolm Crook Keele Univ ‘The Tricolour and the Crescent’ France and Islam

March 16th Dr M O’Neil Loughborough Univ

Prostitution

March 23rd Prof Jphn Sloboda Keele Univ The Focus of Rethinking Global Security

March 30th Sir Brian Crowe Former Ambassador to EU

Is Turkey a European Country?

April 4th Dr P Fysh Nottingham Trent Univ

Racism in France

Easter Break

May 4th Dr D Dunne Keele Univ Europe

May 11th Dr Azzam Tamimi Institute of Islamic Political Thought

Israel and Palestine

May 18th Phil Gabriel Staffs Univ The Issue of Citizenship

‘A country that prefers security before freedom does not deserve either.’

September 30th Prof P Rogers Bradford

University The war on Terrorism and the New American Century

October 7th Canon A White Reconciliation Group Coventry Cathedral

“Reconciliation” in the Middle East

October 14th Prof Sharen Suli Ali

Warwick University

Pakistan

October 21st Dan Screebny American Embassy

American Foreign Policy

October 28th Rev. Paul Nicolson

Zacceasus Trust London

Poverty in the United Kingdom

November 4th Sir Alan Munro Former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia To-day and Yesterday

November 11th Magnus Brechton Nottingham University

Germany & Europe Past & Present

November 18th John Levy Academic Studies Group London

Israel & Palestine

November 25th Anas Osama Altikriti

Moslem Association

Islam, Ethics & Modern Politics

December 2nd Dr R Hollis Royal Institute of International Affairs

The Middle East

December 9th Dr Jackie Sheehan

Nottingham University

North Korea

December 16th Dr M Watson Birmingham University

“Adam Smith” and the Fair Trade Movement

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PART TWO 2005

January 6th

ANNUAL DINNER Lord D Hannay G.C.M.G (former Ambassador to UN)

Britain in Europe

January 13th

Prof J. Sloboda Keele University Implication of the Iraq War on Human Security and Thinking

January 20th

Prof A. Worrall Keele University “The National Offender Management Service” What’s in a Name?

January 27th M Watson Birmingham University

Adam Smith and the Policy of Free Trade

February 3rd

Dan Streebny

American EMB American Foreign Policy

February 10th

Prof N O’Shaunessy Keele University “Propaganda” The Abuse of Rhetoric!

February 17th Dan Plesch Birkbeck College, London

The Beauty Queen’s Guide to World Peace

February 24th

Dr R Garson Keele University The Headscarf and the Crucifix. Religious tolerance in the modern state

March 3rd

Mike Tappin Keele University Regenerating Stoke Through Health – Addressing the Inequalities!

March 10th

Chris Doyle Director Arab British League

Palestine – Israel Conflict

March 17th Dr Anthony McRoy

London University Al-Qaida – Its Roots and Beginnings

March 24th

Dr M Faal Bradford University Africa

April 28th

Prof M Phythian Wolverhampton University

British Arms Export Business as Usual Under “New Labour”!

May 5th

Dr Mike Temple Staffordshire University

Ethics and Journalism

May 12th Dr Wendy Moman London University Business Ethics in a Globalising World

May 19th

Dr Ali Ansari St. Andrews “Iran”

“WHY NOT JOIN US IN CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF WORLD AFFAIRS”