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At The Gallery, Farringdon, London
70/77 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6EJ.
(near Farringdon Tube station)
note new start time at 6.45 p.m. to 8.45 p.m.
We suggest you arrive 15 minutes beforehand in order to settle in with your glass of wine.
Entrance fee: £3
(£2 concessions)
Cafe meetings
The next season of of talks and and discussion on current issues begins on Monday September 15th with futher events on September 29th, October 13th and 27th, November 10th and 24th and December 8th on diverse topics of international concern and interest. Details will be confirmed in the summer.
Monday November 24th
Turkey at the crossroads with Professor Sevket Pamuk
Turkey straddles the continents of Europe and Asia, and controls the entrance to the Black Sea, a position that gives it enormous geo-political importance. In recent years it has set its sight firmly on EU membership, but its progress towards accession has been fraught with difficulties. Internal friction between secularists, led by a strong military faction, and an administration perceived to be rooted in Islamist values, remains a source of instability. Sevket Pamuk held the Chair of Economics and Economic History at Bogaziçi University in Istanbul during the 1990s and is now Professor of Contemporary Turkish Studies at the London School of Economics. He will discuss the critical role ofTurkey in the 21st century and its relationship with Europe. He has authored several books on the Ottoman Empire.
Monday December 8th
Sport - Globalisation’s Hidden Persuader with Andrew Jennings
General Electric’s engines power the jets that bomb civilians in Iraq. The company also funds the International Olympic Committee and its Games, and uses its NBC network to frame the story. Sticky Cola drinks and burgers are endorsed by the IOC and athletes. Jennings discusses how the big brands have captured sport to use as a battering ram into our minds, just as Rupert Murdoch predicted. Gramsci couldn’t have put it better. Jennings, a working journalist, was banned by the IOC for 6 years after he revealed that their president was a lifelong Franco fascist. He is currently banned by FIFA because he discloses the rampant bribery, contract kickbacks and World Cup ticket rackets run by the leadership. The sponsors don’t seem to care. Why should that be?
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