Weidenfeld Debates
For more information on past and forthcoming Weidenfeld Debates please visit: www.weidenfelddebates.org
The Weidenfeld Debates is an annual programme of public debates, organised by the Scholars themselves, focusing on major questions in contemporary international public policy.
In planning the debates, the Scholars organise themselves into teams, each charged with drawing up a programme, inviting speakers, overseeing their travel arrangements, advertising the event, and managing the (limited) budget.
The experience enables the Scholars to cultivate their own professional networks at home as well as in the academic, media and policy communities in Europe and the US; provides them with an opportunity to learn event management skills and allows them to contribute in a very personal and substantive way to the intellectual life of the University.
Beginning in 2009-2010, the Weidenfeld Debates will be united by an annual overarching theme. This theme will provide a framework that ties the debates together and enables a multi-pronged examination of the subject at hand. In 2010 the topic will be the ‘Shift of Power’ and the debates will be focusing on Climate Change, Human Rights and Security and Terrorism in South East Asia.
CEDAR Chair Ahmed Larouz, addressing the Social Innovation and Social Action Conference, Lambeth Palace, November 2011
HE Karel Schwarzenberg, Czech Foreign Minister, addresses an invited audience at an ISD policy breakfast, October 2011
The tenth meeting of the European Policy Planners' Network, hosted by the Home Office, London, November 2011
Jonathan Powell, former aide to Tony Blair, addresses the inaugural Turkey Workshop, London, September 2011
Lord Weidenfeld and Sir Ronald Grierson, co-founders of the Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Programme, April 2010
Acclaimed sociologist Manuel Castells, Humanitas Visiting Professor in Media, Cambridge University, November 2011
Peter Kellner, President of YouGov and Dr David Muir, Faith in Britain, at the launch conference of the Phoenix Initiative, October 2010
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Drama
University of Oxford, 5 to 10 February 2012
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Comparative European Literature
University of Oxford, 31 January to 21 February 2012
Policy Session: Oslo and Utøya, Six Months On
London, 23 January 2012
Weidenfeld Scholars Leadership and Public Policy Seminar
Hartwell House, 10 to 14 January 2012
Prison and Probation Officers Practitioner Exchange
Birmingham, 5 to 6 December 2011
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Architecture
University of Oxford, 28 to 29 November 2011
Weidenfeld Scholars' ISD Briefing
London, 22 November 2011
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Media
Cambridge University, 16 to 23 November 2011
10th Meeting of the European Policy Planners' Network (PPN)
London, 15 to 16 November 2011
Social Innovation and Social Action Conference
Lambeth Palace, 13 to 15 November 2011
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