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Public lecture by Cabinet Member Baroness Warsi on 20 January

Posted by mjs76 at Jan 07, 2011 12:55 PM |
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Baroness Warsi, Chairman of the Conservative Party, will deliver the annual Sternberg Lecture on Thursday 20 January 2011.

Public lecture by Cabinet Member Baroness Warsi on 20 January

Important: tickets for Baroness Warsi's talk

In light of today's extensive press coverage of Baroness Warsi's lecture, we are expecting a late rush of interest. We strongly recommend that you reserve your tickets by e-mail and collect them on the door. To reserve tickets you must send your name and address to myfaith@le.ac.uk no later than 3.00pm. If you have not reserved a ticket you will be asked to show ID and provide your name and address.

Change of venue

Please note that the venue is the Peter Williams Lecture Theatre, formerly known as the New Lecture Theatre. For this event only, access to the theatre will be through the main entrance of the David Wilson Library. There will be staff and student ambassadors on campus to direct you.

About Baroness Warsi

Sayeeda Warsi is a Cabinet Minister and the current Chairman of the Conservative Party. Born in Dewsbury in 1971, she studied Law at the University of Leeds and trained with the Crown Prosecution Service and the Home Office Immigration Department.

She stood as a candidate in the 2005 general election and was appointed to the House of Lords in 2007 when she joined David Cameron’s Shadow Cabinet. She is the first Muslim woman ever to hold a post in a British Cabinet.

Baroness Warsi has a keen interest in issues around racial justice and has spoken out on topics such as prison conditions and forced marriages. She appears regularly on Question Time and Woman’s Hour as well as numerous other radio and TV programmes.

The 2011 Sir Sigmund Sternberg Lecture will take place in the Peter Williams Lecture Theatre (aka the New Lecture Theatre) on Thursday 20 January 2011, 5.30pm-6.30pm.

Please note change of venue from previously announced lecture theatre. NB. The normal entrance to the New Lecture Theatre, via the Fielding Johnson Building South Wing, will be closed due to building work. Please use the main entrance of the David Wilson Library.

Tickets for this event are still available to be collected on the door.  Please email myfaith@le.ac.uk for tickets with your name and address details.  If collecting tickets on the door please bring some form of identification with you.

Sternberg Lecture

Posted by pot at Jan 08, 2011 08:09 PM
I'm saddened that the University has invited her to give the lecture. She is a blatantly politicised person. The University should avoid any intimation that it exercises any political perferences.

Political balance

Posted by mjs76 at Jan 10, 2011 10:29 AM
Previous public lectures at the University of Leicester have included Vince Cable MP (LibDem) in 2009 http://bit.ly/eeLJ25 and Frank Field MP (Labour) in 2008 http://bit.ly/gKsATO

A Strange Idea?

Posted by ecb18 at Jan 10, 2011 11:36 AM
How many people who are not "pure" scientists can give a public talk that is not, in some sense, political? Is the television accused of sharing the views of anyone who has ever appeared on it?

And Also ...

Posted by ecb18 at Jan 10, 2011 11:38 AM
... surely if in a university people cannot realise that the speaker has a political agenda and allow for that in what she says (which may nonetheless be interesting and have value), surely we are all doomed as critical thinkers?

Baroness Warsi

Posted by pot at Jan 16, 2011 09:01 PM
She is politicized in this sense: the government of which she is a cabinet member has:

* reduced the teaching grant by 80%;
* designated humanities and social sciences as 'non-essential';
* increased the tuition fee from #3k+ to GBP6k-9k;
* abolished the Educational Maintenance Allowance;
* abolished Aimhigher;
* demanded further economies in HE this year.

I hope that sufficient people will demonstrate to express their dissatisfaction with her appearance on campus.

Baroness Warsi

Posted by pot at Jan 19, 2011 09:58 AM
I shall be outside no 1 gate (nearest to Welford Road) from 2 p.m. with a placard 'Grameen Banks - yes; Warsi's ideological cuts - no.' Join me if you wish.
As ever,
D.
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