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December 2019
London Branch: Book Club
ESU London Branch Members' monthly book club at Dartmouth House, please contact Kathleen Earley for details this month's book and to reserve a space: earley.kathleen@gmail.com
Find out more »January 2020
ESU International Public Speaking Competition Grand Final
The ESU International Public Speaking Competition (IPSC) is the world’s largest competition of its kind. Bringing together participants, aged 16-20, from over 50 countries for a week of cultural exchange and competition, the IPSC is one of the ESU's flagship programmes. The Grand Final will see the very best 6-8 young performers deliver their speech and follows the competition heats held earlier in the week. Tea and coffee will be provided from 1pm, and the final itself will commence at…
Find out more »Mid-Cheshire Branch: Lunch & Talk on The Vine Project
The vine project aims to enable vulnerable children and young people in choir Zulu Natal, South Africa to get the best education possible. Kate Stross was inspired to become a supporter of the project in late 2011 and has since visited South Africa regularly.
Find out more »Devon & Exeter Branch: Lunch & Talk on Music of the Holocaust by Professor Shirli Gilbert
An extraordinary range of musical activities, both forced and voluntary, took place in the Nazi ghettos and camps, from the earliest internment centres established in 1933 until the liberation in 1945. The musical works these prisoners created are extraordinary documents from the time: fragments recovered from the rubble of war and genocide; monuments to the lives that were destroyed. In this talk, which will feature many film extracts, Shirli Gilbert, professor of Modern History at Southampton University with a specialism in Jewish History and particularly the Holocaust, will highlight original music from this period, including some rare post-war recordings. The songs offer rich insight into victims’ experiences, conveying the uncertain and shifting perspectives of prisoner communities as they made sense of lived reality.
Find out more »Bristol branch: The Rise of China as a challenge to liberal teleology
The Rise of China as a challenge to liberal teleology: can China be both rich and communist? Speaker Professor Yongjin Zhang, University of Bristol
Find out more »Norwich & Norfolk Branch: Lunch & Talk ‘Norwich Architecture 1938 to present’
Lunch followed by a talk by Rod Spokes on Norwich Architecture 1938 to present.
Find out more »Bristol branch: New Year’s Party
New Year’s Party Join us for a glass of wine to celebrate the new year!
Find out more »Ouse Valley Branch: Lunch & Talk ‘THE HOUSE OF LORDS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE’
THE RT HON BARONESS D’SOUZA, Former Lord Speaker of the House of Lords Our speaker has had a distinguished career in science – anthropology, brain chemistry and human nutrition. She has, in addition, a wide range of other interests – human rights, development, gender equality. She was created a Life Peer in 2004 and sat as a crossbencher in the House of Lords, being elected Lord Speaker for 5 years from 2011 to 2016. Baroness D’Souza is therefore well qualified…
Find out more »ESU-Churchill Public Speaking Competition, Bristol Final
ESU-Churchill Public Speaking Competition, Bristol Final
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