Lord David Owen
"How to remain a nation state within the EU"
Wednesday 22th Feburary
Lubbock Room, 8.45pm

David Owen was a Member of Parliament for Plymouth for 26 years from 1966-92. Under Labour Governments, he served as Navy Minister, Health Minister and Foreign Secretary. He was co-founder of the Social Democratic Party and its Leader from 1983-87 and 1988-90. He now sits on the House of Lords.

Sir Crispin Tickell
"Thinking differently: Out of the Box and into the Future"
Tuesday 24th January
Peterhouse Parlour

A leading diplomat, Sir Crispin Tickell has served as Chef de Cabinet to the President of the European Commission, British Ambassador to Mexico, Permanent Secretary of the Overseas Development Administration and British Ambassador to the United Nations and Permanent Representative on the UN Security Council. He is internationally respected for having a strong grasp of science policy issues and is very influential in Britain with regard to environmental policy.

Tony Benn
Wednesday 16th November

Tony Benn is a Labour Party Politician, former MP, Cabinet minister and current President of the Stop the War Coalition. Described by some as Britain's foremost Socialist, his political career has spanned half a century.

Michael White
Thursday 10th November

Michael White is assistant editor for the Guardian. He has been with the paper for more than 30 years, as a reporter, foreign correspondent and columnist. He was political editor from 1990-2006, having previously been the paper's Washington correspondent (1984-88) and parliamentary sketchwriter (1977-84)

Philip Blond: "Where next for the Big Society?"
Tuesday 1st November

Philip Blond is an internationally recognised political thinker and social and economic commentator. He is the director and founder of the award winning
public policy think tank ResPublica and an academic, journalist and author.

Ben Brown
Tuesday 25th October

Ben Brown is an experienced war correspondent and presenter for the BBC. He has reported extensively on major foreign events, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Gulf War, the collapse of Communism in Russia and the break up of Yugoslavia, for which his reporting won several awards. More recently, he has covered the unrest in Libya and the Arab Spring.

Dr. Julian Huppert MP: Politics and the Press: The New Politics: Working in Coalition
Friday 4th March

Dr. Julian Huppert is the Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge, as well as a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.

Lord Black of Brentwood: Politics and the Press: The Paradox of the Indissoluble, Impossible Relationship
Tuesday 22nd February

Lord Black is the Executive Director of the Telegraph Media Group, as well as the Chairman of the Press Standards Board of Finance.

Sir Richard Dearlove: The Impact of Terrorism on National Security
Wednesday 26th January

Sir Richard Dearlove was head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1999 until 2004, and is now the Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Shami Chakrabarti: Rights & Freedoms in Modern Britain
Wednesday 19th January

Shami Chakrabarti has been the Director of Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties) since September 2003. Shami first joined Liberty in September 2001 as In-House Counsel. She became heavily involved in its engagement with the "War on Terror" and with the defence and promotion of human rights and values in Parliament, the Courts and wider society.

A Barrister by background, she was called to the Bar in 1994 and worked as a lawyer in the Home Office from 1996-2001 for Governments of both persuasions.

She is also Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, a Governor of the London Sschool of Economics and the British Film Institute, and a visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and a Master of the Bench of Middle Temple.

Shirin Shafaie: Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII)
Wednesday 1st December

Shirin Shafaie is a Representative of CASMII. She is also a PhD student and the President of Research Students' Society at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and a Teaching Fellow at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD).

Prof. John Sloboda: Civilian Casualties: The Unacceptable Cost of Modern Welfare
Thursday 11th November

Prof. Sloboda is the co-founder of the Iraq Body Count Project, as well as the Director of the Recording Casualties of Armed Conflict programme at the Oxford Research Group.

Stuart Laing: Shifting Sands: Security and Stability in the Gulf
Tuesday 26th October

Mr. Laing is currently the Master of Corpus Christi College. Prior to that, he held several offices in the Diplomatic Service, including Ambassador to Kuwait, Ambassador to Oman, and Deputy Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

Annual Dinner 2010 & Election Night Event
Thursday 6th May

Peterhouse Politics Society invites you its 2010 Annual Dinner & Election Night Event, with special guest Prof. Andrew Gamble (talk entitled "Election blues").

Prof. Gamble is currently the head of the Cambridge department of Politics and International Studies. He has written widely on a range of political issues, and is co-editor of the journal "The Political Quarterly". In 2005, he was awarded the Sir Isaiah Berlin Award for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies by the PSA.

The Election Debate 2010
Tuesday 20th April

Peterhouse Politics Society invites you to an election debate between prospective parliamentary candidates for Cambridge:

Nick Hillman, Conservatives
Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrats
Tony Juniper, Green
Daniel Zeichner, Labour

Nick Harvey: "Afghanistan: lessons learnt and moving forwards"
Wednesday 24th February

Harvey is the Liberal Democrat MP for North Devon, a position he has held since 1992. He is currently the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for defence.

Oliver Letwin: "Time for change"
Wednesday 10th February

Letwin is the Conservative MP for West Dorset. He is currently Chairman of the Conservative Research and Chairman of the Conservative Party's Policy Review. He has formerly been the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Sir Hilary Synnott: "Pakistan: how did it come to this?"
Wednesday 3rd February

Sir Synnott has been the Deputy High Commissioner to India (1993-1996), the British High Commissioner to Pakistan (2000-2003), and the Regional Co-ordinator in Southern Iraq (2003-2004). He is currently at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Shailesh Vara MP: "A reformed parliament for the 21st century"
Tuesday 17th November

Vara is the MP for North-West Cambridgeshire and the Shadow Deputy Leader of the House.

Esther McVey: "The changing face of politics"
Wednesday 11th November

McVey is a former GMTV presenter. She is the Conservative party candidate for Wirral West. Click here to read her comments on her visit to Peterhouse.

Sir Christopher Hum: "Emerging from global crisis: where does China stand?"
Tuesday 3rd November

Sir Hum is the Master of Gonville & Caius college, Cambridge. He is the former Ambassador to China.

Baroness Cox
Tuesday 13th October

Baroness Cox is a cross-bench Lord with extensive experience in humanitarian work.