Chris Mullin MP will talk about his recently published diaries. (This talk is organised by the Government Cluster SGIA and St Chad's College.)

A lecture by Prof Paul Freston, CIGI Chair in Religion and Politics in Global Context at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario and professor colaborador in sociology at the Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil.

'Revolutionary Iran and the Arab world - an uneasy relationship' an lecture by Dr. Udo Steinbach, Berlin

The current financial crisis is considered to be the most severe, since the Great Depression, has shaken the very foundations of the capitalist financial system. Despite the fact that most of those involved in Islamic finance claim the immunity of the sector against the financial crisis, a critical examination of the sources of the current crisis will demonstrate that Islamic finance could potentially encounter a similar fate.