Michaelmas 2019 Term Card
Check out our term card for Michaelmas 2019! Photographs, venue information and ticket details will appear on our social media throughout the term - click here for the most up-to-date information. Free tickets for our events are available through Eventbrite (note: where specified, entry to some events is limited).
Week 1
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James Harding - CEO of Tortoise Media and former Editor of The Times
James Harding is the former Director of BBC News and the youngest person in history to have been made Editor of The Times. His current venture, Tortoise Media, aims to revolutionise the way we interact with the media and offers an innovative approach to modern-day journalism. In an era of fake news, political unrest and media distrust, Tortoise aims to create a culture of clarity with its ‘open journalism’. This promotes active engagement from its members, creating an unscripted and transparent forum of debate, primarily via their hugely popular ‘ThinkIns’ which take place on a weekly basis. These sessions bring together industry experts and members of the general public to discuss topics ranging from LGBTQ+ rights to the rise of Artificial Intelligence.
Wednesday 16th October, University College, 18:30-19:30
Week 3
Anthony Geffen - BAFTA and Emmy award-winning filmmaker
Anthony Geffen is a BAFTA and Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker. He has collaborated with David Attenborough on 11 projects, worked on the acclaimed BBC documentary Inside the Commons, and on the BBC series The Promised Land. Geffen worked for 10 years for the BBC before setting up Atlantic Productions in 1992, one of the most respected high-end factual production companies of which he is the CEO.
Wednesday 30th October, University College, 18:00-19:00
Week 5
Nick Robinson - Journalist and former BBC Political Editor
Hugo Rifkind - Journalist and columnist for The Times
Week 6
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Alec Russell - weekend editor of the Financial Times
Alec Russell is the weekend editor of the Financial Times, having previously worked as the comment and analysis editor, and the world news editor before that. He spent a lot of his career as a foreign correspondent, and has written about the experience of being in the city during the siege of Dubrovnik. He has also written books about his time spent in South Africa and the Balkans, and won several awards for his writing, including being long-listed for an Orwell prize in 2008.
Week 7
OxWIB and OUMS joint panel - women in the media
Week 8
Luke Harding - foreign correspondent for The Guardian
Luke Harding is a Guardian foreign correspondent who has reported from Delhi, Berlin and Moscow. While reporting from Moscow, he was constantly harassed by the Russian secret service before he became the first foreign journalist since the Cold War to be refused re-entry into Russia in February 2011. Luke has written a number of best-selling books including WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy, The Snowden Files and A Very Expensive Poison (on the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko). The first two of these have been adapted into major Hollywood films and the latter is currently running as a major London stage play. His most recent book Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win the White House tracks the link between the Trump presidential campaign in 2016 and the Russian government.
