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Introducing the Durham Castle Lecture Series

(19 October 2012)

University College is excited to announce the Durham Castle Lecture Series.

The Durham Castle Lecture Series is devoted to bringing high-profile speakers to Durham who can contribute to academic and public discussion on issues of global significance. The presenters have made an outstanding contribution over a sustained period of time which makes them an obvious choice for this new major lecture series. 

All lectures are open to all and free to attend.

Other lectures in the series include:

14 November 2012
The Rt Revd Justin Welby, Bishop of Durham, Formerly Dean of Liverpool Cathedral
 - “Seen but not Heard – Should Believers have a Voice in the Polis?”
 

28 November 2012   
His Excellency David Re, Trial Chamber Judge of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon
 - “Reflections on Internal Criminal Justice” – tentative.

23 January 2013     
Professor Conor Gearty, Rausling Professor of Human Rights Law, London School of Economics, Director, Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics
 - “Liberty and Security – For All?” 

6 February 2013   
Professor Justin Yifu Lin
Founder and First Director of the China Center for Economic Research, Former Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank, Former Professor of Economics, Peking University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
 - "Beyond Keynesianism: Changwu and Lessons of the Great Recession”

27 February 2013    
Mr. Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times
“How the Financial Crisis has Changed the World”

6 March 2013     
Professor Danny Quah, Kuwait Professor of Economics and International Development, London School of Economics
 - “Managing the World: We have to Talk about Hegemonic Stability”
 

13 March 2013
Professor Michael Cox 
Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics
 - “Power Shifts, Economic Change and the Decline of the West?”

24 April 2012   
Professor David Held, Master of University College, Durham University, Professor of International Relations, Durham University
 - “Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing”

15 May 2013
Professor John Thompson, Professor of Sociology and Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge
 - “The Future of the Book"

29 May 2013  
Professor Graig Calhoun Director of the London School of Economics
 - “Human Suffering and Humanitarian Response”