The 2023 FCDOA Annual Lecture This year's annual lecture will be delivered online and free of charge by Baroness Catherine (Cathy) Ashton on Friday 6 October at 11.00 am. She will be introduced by our president, Lord Ricketts. I had hoped it would be possible for the lecture to take place in King Charles Street […]
The Writer’s Corner Annabel Abbs, author of Windswept: Why Women Walk In conversation with Jane Clarke on ZOOM Tuesday 17 October at 11.00 am Annabel Abbs is an award-winning author and journalist. She writes regularly for a wide range of newspapers and magazines and lives in London, with her husband and four children. Her novels, The […]
Visit to the Government Art Collection Old Admiralty Building, Admiralty Place, London Thursday 19 October at 3.00 pm There will be no charge for this curator-led tour, lasting less than 60 minutes. The tour will introduce the art collection and its role in promoting British art, history and culture around the world and include visit […]
Visit to the Government Art Collection Old Admiralty Building, Admiralty Place, London Thursday 26 October at 3.00 pm There will be no charge for this curator-led tour, lasting less than 60 minutes. The tour will introduce the art collection and its role in promoting British art, history and culture around the world and include visit […]
The 3rd Transatlantic Online Panel Discussion Can the West win over the rest? Against the backdrop of a fragmenting world, what should the western liberal democracies do in the face of increasingly tough competition to retain – and in some cases recover – influence in the global south versus China and Russia? Thursday 9 November […]
FCDOA is organising an online event Professor Malcolm Chalmers in conversation with Dame Mariot Leslie with a title NATO’s revival: will it last? on 21 November at 11.00 am on Zoom Ticket £5 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reinforced NATO’s key role. But it has raised questions about the extent of European dependence on the […]
Visit to the Government Art Collection Old Admiralty Building, Admiralty Place, London Thursday 23 November at 3.00 pm There will be no charge for this curator-led tour, lasting less than 60 minutes. The tour will introduce the art collection and its role in promoting British art, history and culture around the world and include visit […]
FCDOA is organising an online talk by Dr Emre Caliskan Senior Research Fellow , Foreign Policy Centre with the title How Should the West engage with Turkey during Erdogan’s Third Term? Moderator Sir Dominick Chilcott KCMG, former Ambassador to Turkey on 28 November at 11.00 am on ZOOM Tickets £5 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan won the […]
FCDOA is organising an Online Talk by Professor Christophe Jaffrelot with the title India under Modi: national-populism, ethnic democracy and electoral authoritarianism on 6 December 2023 at 11.00 on ZOOM Tickets £5 Modi's policies based on the politics of religion and identity in India, Hindu nationalism and populism are undermining democracy in India and India's traditionally non aligned […]
FCDOA is organising an online talk 75th Anniversary of UDHR on 13 December at 10.30 on Zoom with the title Can Diplomacy Advance Human Rights? with Rashmin Sagoo Chatham House, Director of International Law Programme & David Griffiths Chatham House, Associate Fellow, International Law Programme Moderator: Dame Audrey Glover Tickets £5 The relationship […]
