Life Matters Talks Series Handout UPDATED
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LIFE MATTERS A series of talks during May and June 2018 at St Peter’s Church, Barton 7.00 pm Thursday 17 th May – Dr Patricia Fara ‘Women in Science and Suffrage in the First World War’ Patricia Fara is a graduate of Oxford University and currently a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, where she is Director of Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science. Publications include Science: A Four Thousand Year History and, last year, A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War. She has also written and co-authored science books for children. Thursday 24 th May - Sophie Ellis ‘What really happens in prisons. Why should we care? What can be done?’ Sophie Ellis is a Research Assistant at the University of Criminology, Cambridge and completed her MSc in Forensic Psychology at Coventry University. She has worked for nine years in the Prison Service in forensic psychological roles. Her current role is on the Families and Imprisonment Research Study investigating resilience processes in families of released prisoners. Monday 4th June – Professor Luigi Gioia, OSB ‘Say it to God’ Luigi Gioia is the Research Associate and Development Officer at the Von Hügel Institute, based at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. At 18 he joined the monastery in Italy, then spent 19 years in France, during which time he completed his doctorate in Oxford, became an abbot in Rome, and Professor of Systematic Theology at the Pontifical University of Sant’ Anselmo, Rome. He is the author of Say it to God , the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book for 2018. Thursday 14 th June – Revd Dr Malcolm Guite ‘Song and Sonnets’ Malcolm Guite is a poet-priest, Chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge, and travels round the UK and to the US and Canada to give lectures, concerts and poetry readings. He was born in Nigeria, earned degrees from Cambridge and Durham Universities, and was ordained in the Church of England in 1991. He teaches in the Cambridge Theological Federation and also plays in the rock band, Mystery Train. Monday 25 th June - Dr Javid Abdelmoneim President of Médecins Sans Frontières UK Javid Abdelmoneim was born in the UK, trained at University College London and from 2008 he worked overseas with Médecins Sans Frontières in Iraq, Haiti and other countries. His work during the Ebola epidemic in Sierre Leone led him to being featured in a Panorama documentary, and last year he presented the BBC series No More Boys and Girls , in which a primary school, under his guidance, experimented with gender-neutral language and activities. To book a place at a talk, please contact: Ruth Bond - [email protected] / 01223 262985 or Margaret Winterbourne – [email protected] / 01223 262353 Reserved ticket £5 on the door; Unreserved ticket £6 on the door. .