The Prebend House Advanced Studies Seminar Series BLURB Autumn 2015

The Prebend House Advanced Studies Seminar Series: Autumn Term 2015.

In 2013 the School of Humanities at the University of Buckingham inaugurated a new Advanced Studies seminar series, underpinning its culture of research and teaching, and reflecting the University’s commitment to independence. The series seeks to stimulate leading- edge and innovative thinking and serves as a beacon of intellectual inquiry to the growing number of research students in the School. The Advanced Studies seminar series is held in our newly refurbished Prebend House building, throughout the Buckingham academic year, on selected Thursdays.

Our guests are leading public intellectuals, leading academics and figures of influence and significance in the public world. They are asked to present academic staff and their postgraduate students with a short paper or speech (ideally lasting about thirty minutes and usually starting at 1615 with a 1730 finish).

Speakers in the three past years have included: Charles Powell (Lord Powell of Bayswater), foreign policy advisor to Margaret Thatcher; the Rt Hon Hazel Blears MP, former Home Office Minister; Dr Jamie Shea, Deputy Assistant General of NATO; the Rt Hon Lord Baker of Dorking, PC, former Home Secretary, Minister for Education and Chairman of the Conservative Party; the Rt Hon Dominic Grieve MP, former HM Attorney General; Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali; Lord (Alex) Carlile QC; Sir Rodric Braithwaite, former HM Ambassador to the Soviet Union; Thomas Kielinger OBE, Chief London Correspondent of Die Welt; Chris Westcott, Head of the BBC’s Monitoring Service; Professor Philip Murphy, Director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; Professor Jan-Dietrich Hendrik, Chair of Intelligence Law, Federal German University of Applied Administrative Sciences; Professor Alan Woodward, the University of Surrey, Sir Nicholas Barrington former, High Commissioner to Pakistan, Francis Morgan Head of Security at Heathrow Airport and Professor Gary Sheffield, Wolverhampton University. Speakers are invited on the specific understanding that because the University of Buckingham has a strong commitment to academic independence, we will always welcome controversial or provocative presentations (although an invitation to speak would not imply an endorsement of the positions that were put to us). Papers or speeches lead to a ‘round table’ style discussion of the topic, chaired by Professor Anthony Glees.

Autumn Term 2015

15 October 2015 1615 Professor Jens Ritscher, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Oxford http://www.ibme.ox.ac.uk/research/biomedia/jens-rittscher

‘Imagery and Intelligence Gathering: My Time in German Military Intelligence’

22 October 2015 1615 Jim Jarvie OBE, Former Head of Operations (Customs and Immigration) UK Border Force, UK National Expert to the European Commission

‘Investigating Immigration Crime, Money Laundering and the Drugs Trade’

29 October 2015 1615 Professor Alan Woodward, Professor of Computing at the University of Surrey, IT Advisor to Europol and The Commonwealth Secretariat

‘Extremism, Serious Crime and Cyber: Current Concerns with Bitcoin’

You may wish to prepare for this talk by watching Alan’s YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx9zgZCMqXE 5 November 2015 1615 Simon Dukes (Chief Executive of CIFAS, the UK’s Fraud Prevention Service and previously Head of Cyber at the Centre for the Protection of the National Infrastructure, the CPNI) https://www.cifas.org.uk/new_chief_exec

‘What CIFAS does: why its work is so vital to the UK’

19 November 2015 1615 Tim Marshall (Former Foreign Affairs Editor and Diplomatic Editor, SKY NEWS and author of best-selling book Prisoners of Geography ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Marshall http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/prisoners-of-geography- ten-maps-that-tell-you-everything-you-need-to-know-about-global- politics-by-a2488801.html

‘Everything you need to know about global politics’