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Roscoe Lecture Series – 15 – Liverpool – 2012 Facing 21st Century Challenges
Monday 13 February Rt Hon Alex Salmond MSP, First Minister of Scotland
St George’s Hall
5.00 p.m. “The Case for an Independent Scotland”
Thursday 15 March Professor David Hilmers MD, former astronaut
St George’s Hall “ 4 Times in Space – An Astronaut Returns to
5.00 p.m. Earth to Grapple with its Challenges”
Wednesday 25 April Dr Bill McGuire, University College London
St George’s Hall “Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate
5.00 p.m. Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis & Volcanoes”
Thursday 4 October St George’s Hall 5.00 p.m.Mr Frank Cottrell Boyce, Author “What I learnt from the Olymics”
Wednesday 31 October 5.00 p.m. St George’s Hall
Ms Claire Tomalin, Author
In Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the
5.00 p.m. birth of Charles Dickens
December 3rd 5.00 p.m. St George’s Hall
Mr Will Hutton, Author; Principal of Hertford College, Oxford , author of “The State We’re In”
will speak on “The World We’re In”
January 15th 2013, John Bird, Founder of The Big Issue, and later in the spring, (Baroness) Tani Grey Thompson DBE, Paralympic Gold Medallist
For tickets call Mrs.Barbara Mace: 0151 231 3852
The Roscoe Lecture Series is promoted by Liverpool John Moores University Roscoe Foundation for Citizenship
Meeting in Parliament to highlight the malign effects of Hong Kong’s Article 23 on human rights; to examine its impact on media freedom, in advance of World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd; to express solidarity with Jimmy Lai and 1841 other imprisoned pro democracy advocates; and to consider how Hong Kong’s Security Laws impact on civil society, the diaspora and contribute to transnational repression. Contributions from Benedict Rogers, Steve Vines, Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, and Carmen Lau. The banning of a Simpsons episode about the Tiananmen Square massacre “Nothing Happened Here” cited as an example of the suppression of truth.
Lord Alton of Liverpool (David Alton) as a...