The Cambridge Union | In Conversation With...

Mar 13 2024 48 ep. 53 mins 7
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The Cambridge Union is the oldest debating society in the world, as well as the largest student society in Cambridge. It remains one of the highest-ranking competitive debating chambers worldwide, and hosts a range of speakers and topical debates each term. Since 1815 the Union has been committed to the principles of free speech and of fair, open, and honest debate. Founded at a time when the university authorities attempted to restrict these freedoms, the Union remains the centre of controversial and serious debate within the University of Cambridge.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk | Cambridge Union

Mar 13 2024 90 mins  
Oleksandra Matviichuk speaks in the Debating Chamber at 6:00pm on Friday 2nd February 2024. OLEKSANDRA MATVIICHUK Nobel Prize Winning Lawyer Named one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women in the World by the Financial Times, Oleksandra Matviichuk is a renowned Ukrainian human rights lawyer leading the Center for Civil Liberties in Kyiv. In 2022, Oleksandra and her team were award

This House Believes In A United States of Europe | Cambridge Union

Mar 10 2024 70 mins  
Thusday 22th February 2024 at 8:00pm in the Debating Chamber. The vision of a United Europe has long been a dream of visionary philosophers and thinkers, from Leibniz to Lafayette. Successive empires seemed close to uniting Europe- Napoleon chief among them- before they crumbled into oblivion. It was only after the carnage of the World Wars that such a dream could move closer

Vuk Jeremic | Cambridge Union

Mar 06 2024 61 mins  
Vuk Jeremic speaks in the Debating Chamber at 6pm on Wednesday 31st January 2024. VUK JEREMIK Serbian Former Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic is the President of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD), a global public policy think-tank, and Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly magazine Horizons - Journal of International Relations and Sustainable Devel

This House Would Be A Free Speech Absolutist | Cambridge Union

Mar 03 2024 64 mins  
Thursday 15th February 2024 aat 8pm in the Debating Chamber. This week’s debate will be led by all student speakers, meaning greater opportunity to make your voice heard. It should be a really engaging and lively debate!Freedom of speech and expression, especially on campus, has not ceased to be a hot button topic this decade. The line between hate speech, incitement to violenc

The Victims & Aftermath of Partition & Colonialism Internationally | Cambridge Union

Feb 28 2024 70 mins  
THE VICTIMS & AFTERMATH OF PARTITION & COLONIALISM INTERNATIONALLY Partition and the impacts of colonialism have deeply affected numerous countries, often marked with conflict and political division. This panel brings together international speakers from a range of backgrounds to speak on this issue and the victims of partition and colonialism and aims to highlight the comm

This House Believes Satire Is The Most Revolutionary Form of Art | Cambridge Union

Feb 25 2024 42 mins  
This Debate took place on Monday 12th February 2024 at 8pm in the Debating Chamber. From Have I got News for You to Private Eye to Saturday Night Live, political satire has enjoyed something of a renaissance. Since the grotesque portrayals of the loth century pioneered by Gilray and images that floated on the streets of Paris, Satire has often be an instrument of political subvers

This House Believes The Global Economy Is Still An Imperial One | Cambridge Union

Feb 18 2024 73 mins  
This debate took place on Thursday 8th February 2024 at 8:00pm in the Debating Chamber. From the 17th Century to the 20th Century, global economic systems were often forged from imperialistic structures- in its first wave, the exploitation of the Americas and the expansion of slavery, and in the second wave, the vast scramble for African and Asian territory for resources and mar

This House Believes You Can Put A Number On Human Life | Cambridge Union

Feb 11 2024 60 mins  
This debate took place on Thursday 1st February 2024 at 8:00pm in the Debating Chamber. As modelling and technological capacity improves, an old problem on morality is rearing its head, especially as we all were confronted with the grim graphs of the COVID-19 pandemic. Is morality and human life calculable, a hedonic calculus of pleasure or pain, and can we theoretically get the

The Great Industry Debate 2024 | This House Believes Our Industry Is Failing Its People | Cambridge Union

Feb 09 2024 85 mins  
Thursday 11th January 2024 at 8:00pm in the Debating Chamber. Do we still treat the industry as somewhere you have a job rather than a career? Is hospitality promoted as a legitimate career or education path at school career fairs? Are those choosing to work in our industry respected? Proposition: RACHEL BELLIERE-WILSON Rachel is an inclusion educator, advocate and communi

Sabrina Paterski | Cambridge Union

Feb 07 2024 53 mins  
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