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World Affairs Programme 2012-2013

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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 4^th	Kate Barker CBE	Senior Adviser, Credit Suisse and former member, Monetary Policy Committee	Housing: A Perpetual British Problem?
October 11^th 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 18^th	Paul Farrelly MP	Member, Select Committee Culture, Media & Sport	The Freedom of the Media
October 25^th	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 8^th	Prof David Anderson	Professor of African Politics University of Oxford	‘Living in a bad neighbourhood? Conflict and politics in eastern Africa’
November 15^th	Prof Feona Attwood	Professor of Sex, Communications & Culture Middlesex University	Asking the Right Questions About the Sex Industry
November 22^nd	Dr Robin Porter	Visiting Professor University of Bristol	The legacy of the May 4th Movement. Has Mr. Science Murdered Mr. Democracy ?
November 29^th	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 6^th	Dr John Whittaker	Visiting Professor Lancaster University Management School	The Euro Crisis
December 13^th 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?
January 10^th	Prof Patrick Minford	Professor of Applied Economic Cardiff Business School	After the Bank Crisis: Are We Throwing the Baby Out With the Bath Water?
January 17^th	Chris Leslie MP	Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury	Re-making the City: Banking after the Crisis
January 24^th	Ian Lucas MP	Shadow FCO Minister for Africa and the Middle East	The Middle East
January 31^st	Tim Jones	Policy Officer, Jubilee Debt Campaign	30 Years of Debt Crisis & the Need for the JDC
February 7^th	Prof Paul Rogers	Professor of Peace Studies Bradford University	What Happened to the Arab Spring?
February 14^th	Dr David Dunn	Fellow, SPIRE Keele University	What About International Relations?
February 21^st	Professor The Lord Norton of Louth	Professor of Government University of Hull	The Future of the House of Lords
February 28^th	Tim Hancock	Director, Amnesty International	Fighting the Battle for Human Rights
March 7^th	Prof Richard Luther	Prof of Comparative Politics, SPIRE Keele University	Do We Need Political Parties?
March 14^th	Prof Calum Paton	Professor of Public Policy, Keele University	The Re-Re-Reform of the NHS
March 21^st	Prof Klaus Dodds	Prof of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway University	The Antarctic
March 28^th	Will Hutton	Principal, Hertford College Oxford Economist, journalist, author	To be agreed