Keswick - Lecture and Buffet Dinner

Keswick - Lecture and Buffet Dinner

Keswick - Lecture and Buffet Dinner

event Friday, April 5, 2019 schedule 7.00pm - 10.00pm BST
Booking closed
Booking closed
event Friday, April 5, 2019 schedule 7.00pm - 10.00pm BST
  • Lake district
Hosted by the Cambridge Society (Cumbria)
Open to: 
Alumni and guests
Friends and supporters
Postgraduate students
Undergraduates
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Location: 
Lodore Falls Hotel | View details

Hear Stuart Laing speak about current affairs in the Middle East and enjoy a buffet dinner afterwards.​

Stuart Laing was Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from October 2008 to August 2018, following his first career in the British Foreign Service. He specialised in Arab and Middle Eastern affairs, serving in Saudi Arabia and in Cairo, and then as High Commissioner in Brunei, Ambassador in Muscat, and later in Kuwait. He researches and writes on Arab and East African history. Stuart is co-author (with Robert Alston, another former Ambassador in Muscat) of a book on Omani-British history, Unshook till the end of time. In 2012 he took an MPhil at Cambridge on the abolition of slave trading in the Indian Ocean, and has published a biography of Tippu Tip, the Arab ivory trader of the late 19th century.

The schedule for the evening is

7pm - Meet for drinks in the bar. A welcome drink is included

7.30pm - Talk on Current Affairs in the Middle East by Stuart Laing

8.45pm - Buffet dinner

Booking information

To book your place, please complete attached booking form

Price: 
£29

Booking for this event is now closed.

Location

Lodore Falls Hotel
Borrowdale Valley
Keswick
Cumbria
CA12 5UX
United Kingdom
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