“The Arc of History and the Fate of Nations: Do People Have a Role”? By Professor Rajmohan Gandhi for the University’s Centre of Islamic Finance & Hume on Thursday 26th November 2020 @ 3 pm (BST) Professor Rajmohan Gandhi is an Indian historian and research professor at the Centre for South Asian and Middle Eastern […]

Hume Institute for Postgraduate Studies, Lausanne and the School of Medicine, University of Bolton, are delighted to invite you to a webinar entitled: “Ageing with Dignity” The world population is ageing because of a falling birth rate and an improved life expectancy: knowing this has not helped governments develop sustainable health and care policies. The […]

Speakers James Watt CVO is a British former diplomat who was ambassador to Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt. James Watt has nearly four decades of diplomatic experience, much of it working in support of humanitarian and development programmes serving refugees and the internally displaced and dealing with the wider phenomenon of migration. He is Chair of […]

LIVE WEBINAR Tony Mackay AM Prof Pasi Sahlberg Caitlin Senior Prof David Hopkins In most countries of the world, the Corvid-19 pandemic has almost instantaneously changed life for just about everyone: economic discipline has been abandoned, businesses have closed, sta have been furloughed, or asked to work from home and so on. Through lockdown, governments […]

Live Webinar: Wednesday 2nd March 2022 at 17:00 GMT   Speaker: Christopher Coker is Director London School of  Economics – IDEAS and former Professor and Head of International Relations at LSE. He is the author of  over twenty books. His last was Why War? (2021) About the webinar The Ukraine crisis has caught us all out. It should not have ! It arises […]

WEBINAIRE EN LIGNE L'élection présidentielle française de 2022 et les transformations de la vie politique sous la Vème République Hume Institute for Postgraduate Studies Lausanne, Switzerland +41 21 552 68 60 [email protected] www.humelausanne.ch Nous contacter Hume Institute for Postgraduate Studies Avenue Gratta-Paille 2 World Trade Center 1018 Lausanne, Switzerland Adresse de l'institut Visitez Hume Lausanne […]

Speaker: Lieutenant-colonel (FR-A) (Retired) Vincent Arbaretier About the webinar On 24th February 2022 Russia launched a “special military operation” against Ukraine, with reports estimating tens of thousands of deaths on both sides, and millions being forced to flee into neighbouring countries to seek safety and security. One year on, Lieutenant-colonel (FR-A) (Retired) Vincent Arbaretier will reflect on the lessons Europe has learnt from […]

Speaker: Mrs Figen Murray Martyn's Law Figen Murray, mother of Manchester Arena bombing victim Martyn Hett, is working with Survivors Against Terror and former Chief Superintendent Nick Aldworth to push for Martyn’s Law to become legislation. The proposed law would require venues to provide staff with counter-terrorism training, carry out risk assessments, mitigate identified risks, […]