spring 2012 open lecture programme

OPEN LECTUREPROGRAMMESPRING 2012

WELCOMETO THEOPENLECTURE SPRING BROCHUREThe University has, for many years, provided a wide rangeof popular Open Lectures maintaining the University’shigh profile at a local, national and international level.Our programme includes a variety of interestingspeakers covering diverse subject matters. OpenLectures are free to all and no booking is required.From time to time, Open Lecture details change afteradvertising material has been printed. We thereforestrongly advise you to check the website for anylast-minute changes: www.kent.ac.uk/openlectures.

We look forward to welcoming you.

OPEN LECTURESARE FREEANDOPEN TOALL, NO BOOKINGREQUIRED.For a comprehensive guide to public events atthe University of Kent, please visit:www.kent.ac.uk/events

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WEDNESDAY 18 JANUARY / Leverhulme Lecture

Professor Margaret DaviesPersons and Property

After studying Law and English Literature at Adelaide University in the1980s, Margaret completed a doctorate in critical legal theory at SussexUniversity. Margaret began her academic career in 1992 as a foundationstaff member at the Law School at Flinders University. She has been arecipient of three Australian Research Council grants, and is a Fellow ofthe Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the AustralianAcademy of Law. She is author of four books and a variety of articles onlegal theory and the philosophy of property, and is currently starting aresearch project concerning the tension between community andindividual interests in property.Other recent research has been on legal pluralism and feminist legal

theory. Margaret is currently Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the KentCentre for Law, Gender and Sexuality and Kent Law School.

No booking requiredWoolf College, Lecture Theatre, Canterbury campus / 6pmContact: George Chandler / T: 01227 823902 / E: [email protected]

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FRIDAY 27 JANUARY / Chancellor’s Lecture

Sir Cyril ChantlerModernMedicine and the NHS

Cyril Chantler is Chairman of University College London Partners, adesignated academic health science system. He is a member of theCourt of London South Bank University and a trustee of the MediaStandards Trust. He was Dean of the Guy’s, King’s College and StThomas’ Hospitals’ Medical and Dental School, where he was Professorof Paediatric Nephrology until his retirement in 2000. He was GeneralManager of Guy’s Hospital (1985-1988) and Chairman of Great OrmondStreet Hospital for Children (2001- 2008).He was elected as an Honorary Member of the American Paediatric

Society in 1991 and as a Foreign Associate of the Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences, USA in 1999. Cyril Chantler hashonorary degrees from London South Bank University, the University ofLille, the University of London and the University of Kent and is anHonorary Fellow of the Institute of Child Health London.


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WEDNESDAY 1 FEBRUARY / Darwin Feast

Dr Daniel HammettThe (R)evolution will be satirised: Political cartoonsand the process of democracy

Dan is a Lecturer in political and development geographies at theUniversity of Sheffield and Research Associate at the University of theFree State, South Africa. Following degrees from the University of Oxfordand University of Edinburgh he has held posts at the University ofEdinburgh and University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. His workfocuses on geographies of citizenship and identity in southern Africa,the use of technologies for democratisation, and geopoliticalengagements with political satire and state iconography.


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WEDNESDAY 8 FEBRUARY / EliotAnnual Lecture

Lord DannattLeadership in Turbulent Times

Richard Dannatt was a soldier for forty years and was commissioned intoThe Green Howards in 1971. During his Army career he served inNorthern Ireland, Germany, Cyprus, Bosnia and Kosovo. His finalappointment was as Chief of the General Staff during some of the mostdifficult years of the Army’s involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. Onretirement from the Army in 2009, he became The Constable of HMTower of London, and in 2011 he entered the House of Lords as acrossbench peer. He is an adviser to a number of companies and afrequent commentator on defence and security issues. His home is inNorfolk where he runs the family farm and is President of the NorfolkChurches Trust. General Dannatt is also a Trustee of the WindsorLeadership Trust, President and Founder Patron of the Service charityHelp for Heroes.


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WEDNESDAY 15 FEBRUARY / LordMayor’s Lecture

Dr Stevie SpringPerils and pitfalls of publishing in the digital age:is there a future for paid journalism?

Stevie graduated in law and spent four years in marketing, and twoyears launching TVam with the “famous five” before starting a 16-yearcareer in advertising agency management. From June 2006 to June2011 she was CEO of Future plc, one of the few women running fullylisted public companies.Future produces 150 consumer magazines, apps, websites and events

ranging from Total Film and Classic Rock to TechRadar and Guitar World‘Lick of the Day’ – and is both the largest exporter and the largestlicensor of magazines from the UK. She is a Fellow of both the Institute ofPractitioners in Advertising and of the Marketing Society; and is a pastpresident and an honorary member of the Women’s Advertising Club.In 2008 she became the first externally appointed Chairman of BBC

Children in Need and has overseen a complete overhaul of both grant-making and fundraising at the charity.

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No booking requiredRutherford College, Lecture Theatre 1, Canterbury campus / 6pmContact: George Chandler / T: 01227 823902 / E: [email protected]

WEDNESDAY 29 FEBRUARY /Vice-Chancellor’s Lecture

Professor Carl LygoThe changing view of Higher Education in the UK:How the University of Kent can rise to the new challenges

Carl Lygo is the Principal of BPP University College and Chief ExecutiveOfficer of BPP Holdings Ltd, the private provider of professional trainingand higher education for the legal, financial and business sectors.Carl is a qualified Barrister with over 21 years’ experience in the

education sector, and has worked at BPP for the past 15 years, eight ofwhich as a board director. As Chairman of BPP Law School, he wasinstrumental in increasing turnover from £1million to £50m.Prior to BPP, he practised in the areas of personal injury and

employment law, before entering education. He was a lecturer in law atLondon Guildhall, City and East Anglia universities. Former appointmentsinclude special education advisor to the Judicial Studies Board by theLord Chief Justice. Carl was shortlisted for “Outstanding IndividualContribution to Education” by Education Investor magazine.


WEDNESDAY 7MARCH / Open Lecture

Jeremy Gold QCTitle TBC

Jeremy Gold studied law at Kent between 1973 and 1976. He wascalled to the Bar in 1977 and enjoyed a wide ranging criminal practicein London and the South East. He took silk in 2003 and subsequentlydefended and prosecuted in many high profile cases of murder, rapeand complex professional crime. One of his last cases at the Bar wasdefending John Worboys (the “black cab rapist”) at Croydon CrownCourt in 2009.He was Head of Chambers at Westgate Chambers in Lewes between

2003 and 2009. He was involved through the South Eastern Circuit andthe Bar Council with a number of committees interested in the generalwelfare of the Bar and the negotiation of legal aid fees. He has sat as aRecorder at the Central Criminal Court and was appointed to the CircuitBench in 2009. He sits at Maidstone Crown Court.

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Dr Simon SinghScience and the media – the good, the bad and the ugly

As science impacts on society more than ever before, it’s crucial thatmedia reporting is accurate, insightful and informative, rather thandistorted, scaremongering and sensationalist. Simon Singh examines TVand print journalism to discuss the forces at work behind the scenes.After completing a PhD in Particle Physics at Cambridge, Simon Singh

joined the BBC science department and worked on Tomorrow’s Worldand Horizon – his documentary about Fermat’s Last Theorem won aBAFTA in 1996. In 1997 he authored Fermat’s Last Theorem, the firstbook about mathematics to become a No.1 bestseller in the UK. Sincethen he has published The Code Book, Big Bang and Trick orTreatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial. He has written for severalnational newspapers and magazines. He was sued for libel by the BritishChiropractic Association in 2008, and was vindicated in 2010 – he isnow a supporter of the Libel Reform Campaign.

No booking requiredPilkington, Lecture Theatre,Medway Campus / 6pmContact: George Chandler / T: 01227 823902 / E: [email protected]

THURSDAY 22MARCH / Open Lecture

Professor Jeremy CooperThe NewWorld of Tribunals: a Quiet Revolution

Professor Jeremy Cooper is Director of Studies for Tribunals and Boardmember in the newly created Judicial College. He is also TrainingAdviser to Lord Justice Carnwath, Senior President of Tribunals. He sitsas a Tribunal Judge in both the first-tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunaland was previously Southern Regional Chairman of the Mental HealthReview Tribunal. He is an Honorary Professor at the universities of Kentand Middlesex. Prior to becoming a Tribunal Judge he was Dean of theLaw Faculty at Southampton Institute then Professor of Law and Head ofthe Disability Law and Policy Research Unit at Middlesex University.

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BaronessAfsharIslam and feminism

Prominent Iranian feminist Professor the Baroness Afshar, OBE, AcSSteaches Politics and Women’s Studies at the University of York andserves as a Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords. She studied at Yorkbefore completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge. Shelaunched her writing career as a correspondent for Kayhan International,a daily English language newspaper in Tehran before returning to the UKin the mid – 1970s where she worked for the University of Bradford andthen York. She has served on several bodies including the British Counciland is currently Honorary President of the United Nations AssociationInternational Service and the Muslim Women’s Network (UK). Shereceived an OBE in 2005 for her services to equal opportunities and wasmade a life peer in 2007. She has written and edited over 15 books onIran, Iranian politics, women and the developing world.

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WEDNESDAY 4APRIL / Joint Open Lecture

Professors Rob Goffee& Gareth JonesKent sociologists in the wild world of business

Rob is a trained sociologist and has worked at London Business Schoolfor over 25 years. His interest in leadership comes from his researchand teaching; from his leadership roles at the School and from running– with Gareth Jones – the consulting firm, Creative ManagementAssociates.Gareth’s career has spanned both the academic and business

worlds. He began as a University academic in Economic and SocialStudies at the University of East Anglia before moving to the LondonBusiness School, where he joined the Organisational Behaviour Group.He is currently Visiting Professor at the Instituto de Empresa in Madridand at INSEAD in Fontainbleu. Gareth’s research interests are inorganisational design, culture, leadership and change

HIGH TABLEDINNERSBOOKING INFORMATIONAll College Honorary Senior Members and College Membersare invited to attend the High Table Dinners:

CHANCELLOR’S LECTUREANDHIGHTABLEDINNERFriday 27th January 2012

DARWINANNUALLECTUREANDFEASTWednesday 1st February 2012

ELIOTANNUALLECTUREANDHIGHTABLEDINNERWednesday 8th February 2012

LORDMAYOR’S LECTUREANDHIGHTABLEDINNERWednesday 15th February 2012

The price of a three-course dinner with wine is £35.00 per person.

If you would like to make a booking toattend one or more of the High TableDinners, please contact: George Chandler,EventsAssistant either by phone01227 823902 or email: [email protected]

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EVENTS

Music eventsThe University Music department promotes a range of musicevents throughout the year including lunchtime concerts, workshopswith visiting professional musicians, concerts in CanterburyCathedral and various other venues. For more informationvisit www.kent.ac.uk/music

Gulbenkian Theatre and CinemaThe Gulbenkian Theatre has a diverse programme including drama,comedy, dance and music. The Cinema is an independent filmtheatre which shows mainstream, alternative and foreign films.For more information visit www.kent.ac.uk/gulbenkian

Sports eventsThe University of Kent’s Sport, Physical Activity & Recreationdepartment runs a varied programme of sporting events.For more information visit www.kent.ac.uk/sports

Please help us save paper by signingup to receive the Open Lecture programmebooklet by email. Please contact:George Chandler, EventsAssistant eitherby phone 01227 823902 oremail: [email protected]

Past Open Lecture SpeakersLORDMAYLORD PUTTNAMSHIULEGHOSHMICHAELMANSFIELDQCLORDWINSTONDRROWANWILLIAMSJOANNALUMLEYOBEDRDAVID STARKEY CBELORDADONISLORDBINGHAMOFCORNHILL

Open Lecture speakers fortheAutumn Term 2012 includeLEONMCCARRONBARONESS PRASHARLORDMOYNIHANSIR CHRISTOPHERMEYERBARONESSHALEDRMUHAMMADBARI

For all other events takingplace at the University ofKent, please see theUniversity Events Calendarwww.kent.ac.uk/events

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