On 28th October the Centre hosted a well-attended Sultan Azlan Shah lecture by the Rt Hon Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, former Chief Justice of England and Wales. The session was chaired by the Centre’s Sultan Azlan Shah Fellow, the Rt Hon Baroness Hale of Richmond. Lord Thomas took as his title ‘The…

On 18th October, the Centre welcomed Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose. Delivering the Centre’s annual Keith Griffin Lecture, Professor Mazzucato took as her title ‘A Mission-Oriented Approach to Changing Capitalism’. Students…

On 15th October, the Centre began its Michaelmas programme of Special Lectures with a talk by the Rt Hon Tobias Ellwood MP, titled ‘Re-energising Britain’s Security Capabilities’. Ellwood was first elected as Member of Parliament for Bournemouth East in 2005. After previously serving as Under-…

In collaboration with Oxford Bibliographical Society, this lecture examined a wonderfully illustrated herbal produced in Syria h. 642 (a.d. 1245). Representative of book production among intellectual circles of the medieval Arab world, it sheds light on artistic collaboration and scholarly…

On 5th March the Centre welcomed the Rt Hon Jack Straw to lecture on “Foreign Policy in a Fracturing World”. In a wide-ranging presentation Mr Straw recalled the history of recent Western interventions in the Middle East and the failed promise of the “Arab Spring”, which had ultimately caused…

On 13 November HE Dr Bandar al Hajjar, President of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), gave a lecture at the Centre on ‘From Aid to Empowerment: IsDB Making the Market Work for Development’.

On 1st November The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, gave a lecture at the Centre on ‘Faith in the Commonwealth’.

The Keith Griffin Inaugural Lecture.