Past event: First Annual Hamdi Lecture with Mr George Alagiah
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Thursday 22 March 2012, 19:30 until 21:30
Open to all
Location
Main Lecture Theatre, Clerici,
Gipsy Lane Campus
Details
This year Oxford Brookes University will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of its Masters degree course in Development and Emergency Practice. To mark the occasion we will be holding the inaugural Hamdi Lecture, named after Professor Nabeel Hamdi , who originated the course that focuses on the practical challenges of working in humanitarian aid. Professor Hamdi hopes that this new series of lectures will, in his words, inspire people to "disturb the existing order of things and with vision and common sense induce lasting and positive change".
We're extremely excited that the first of these lectures will be given by the journalist and BBC News Presenter, Mr George Alagiah. A specialist on Africa and the developing world, Mr Alagiah joined the BBC in 1989. As well as one of the BBC's main news presenters, he was one of its leading foreign correspondents, reporting on events ranging from the genocide in Rwanda, the plight of the Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq and civil wars in Afghanistan, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Somalia.
PLEASE NOTE that the starting time of the lecture by Mr Alagiah will be at 8:30pm. However, there will be a pre-lecture discussion by students from the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) starting at 7:30pm.
