Here you can find an overview of the past Annual Lectures run by the David Davies Memorial Institute. For other past events, please click HERE.
| Year | Speaker and Lecture Title |
|---|---|
| 2024 |
Professor Nicholas J. Wheeler: |
| 2023 |
Professor Kimberly Hutchings: EH Carr Annual Memorial Lecture "Thinking with the Enemy: critique is dead but it won’t lie down" |
| 2019 |
Ben Lake: "Brexit from the back benches" |
| 2019 |
Professor John Ikenberry: “The End of the Liberal World Order?” |
| 2019 |
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times: “Is the West disintegrating?” |
| 2019 |
Sir Steve Smith: “The roaring Nineties and Noughties: The Transformation of the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth” |
| 2019 |
Professor Ken Booth: “International Relations; the Future’s Inconvenient Truth” |
| 2019 |
Professor Louise Richardson: “A Hundred Years’ Crisis: In defence of globalism and International Relations” |
| 2018 |
Professor Michael Cox: “E. H. Carr: Nationalism and the Nation State in an Age of Crisis” |
| 2018 |
Dr Jan Ruzicka: TEDxAberystwyth |
| 2018 |
Professor Cynthia Enloe: “Wounds: A Feminist Understanding of Intimacy and War” |
| 2018 |
Andrew Barlow: “Negotiating a multilateral deal: an insiders view of the extension of the NPT” |
| 2018 |
Geraint Talfan Davies “Europe: Ruin or Recovery?” |
| 2018 |
Rt. Hon. Carwyn Jones Am, First Minister: “Towards a better Union: Past, Present and Post Brexit prospects for the UK” |
| 2018 |
Anne Applebaum: "A Tale of Two Journalists: Gareth Jones, Walter Duranty, and the Ukrainian Famine" |
| 2017 |
Professor Christopher Coker: “Still ‘The Human Thing’? Thucydides, Waltz, and the Future of War” |
| 2017 |
Stephen M. Walt: “US Grand Strategy After the Cold War: Can Realist Theory Explain It? Should Realism Guide It?” |
| 2017 |
Sir Lawrence Freedman: |
| 2016 |
Lord William Wallace: "Losing the Narrative: The United Kingdom and the European Union" |
| 2015 |
Dr. Rebecca Johnson: "Remember Humanity: Security Imperatives to Ban Nuclear Weapons" |
| 2015 |
Ted Hopf: |
| 2014 |
Professor Rosemary Hollis: "Britain and the Palestine Question, 1914-2014" |
| 2013 |
Thomas O. Melia: "Is it Realist to Think We Can Advance Democracy and Human Rights?" |
| 2012 |
Professor Norman Davies: "Is the European Union a Vanishing Kingdom?" |
| 2011 |
Professor Robert Jervis: "Force and World Politics in Our Era" |
| 2010 |
Des Browne: "The Importance of Political Leadership in Achieving a Nuclear Weapon Free World" |
| 2009 |
Dr. Meenakshi Gopinath: "Rescripting Security: Gender and Peacebuilding in South Asia" |
| 2008 |
Gareth Evans: "The Responsibility to Protect: An Idea Whose Time has Come...And Gone?" |
| 2007 |
John Gittings: "After Trident: Peace or Proliferation?" |
| 2006 |
Sir Jeremy Greenstock: "Globalisation or Polarisation: Where are we Heading?" |
| 2005 |
Sir Emyr Jones Parry: " |
| 1993 |
Margaret J. Anstee: "Angola: the Forgotten Tragedy a Test Case for UN Peacekeeping" |
| 1992 |
Claudio Caratsch: "Humanitarian Design and Political Interference: Red Cross Work in the Post-Cold War Period" |
| 1991 |
H.E. Dr. Ahmed Esmat Abdel-Meguid: "The Middle East at a Crossroad" |
| 1990 |
Jan Urban: "Democracy and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe" |
| 1989 |
Dr. Martin Holdgate, CB: "The Environment of Tomorrow's World" |
| 1988 |
The Hon. Abba Eban: "Prospectes for Peace in the Middle East" |
| 1987 |
Dr. Garret FitzGerald: "Thoughts on Two Cultures: Learning to Live Together" |
| 1986 |
Sir Oliver Wright: "Anglo-American Relations: The Atlantic Grows Wider" |
| 1985 |
Professor Inis L. Claude Jr.: "Myths About the State" |
| 1985 |
Marice F. Strong: "Beyond the Famine: New Hope for Africa" |
| 1984 |
Crown Prince El Hassan Bin Talal: "Jordan's Quest for Peace in the Middle East" |
| 1983 |
Sir John Adams: "Scientists and Statesmen" |
| 1982 |
Michael Howard: "Weapons and Peace" |
| 1981 |
The Hon. George P. Shultz: "Risk, Uncertainty, and Foreign Economic Policy" |
| 1980 |
The Rt. Hon. Lord Carrington: "Interdependence and Revolution: The West in the World Today" |
| 1979 |
Dr. Guido Brunner: "Energy for an Independent Europe" |
| 1978 |
Professor Sir Hermann Bondi: "Defence and the Citizen" |
| 1976 |
The Rt. Hon. George Thomson: "Britain in Europe: The First Four Years and the Future" |
| 1975 |
Sir Michael Palliser: "Britain and British Diplomacy in a World of Change" |
| 1974 |
The Rt. Hon. Sir Alec Douglas-Home: "Britain's Changing Role in World Affairs" |
| 1972 |
Alexander King: "Another Kind of Growth: Industrial Society and the Quality of Life" |
| 1971 |
Dr. Rosalyn Higgins and Brigadier Michael Harbottle: "United Nations Peacekeeping: Past Lessons and Future Prospects" |
| 1970 |
J.E.S. Fawcett: "Priorities in Conservation" |
| 1969 |
F.S. Northedge: "The Settlement of International Disputes" |
| 1968 |
C. Wilfred Jinks: "Britain and the International Labour Organisation" |
| 1967 |
R.R. Neild: "What Has Happened to Disarmament?" |
| 1965 |
The Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Boyle: "Education for International Understanding" |
| 1964 |
Professor A.J. Brown: "The Economic Consequences of Disarmament" |
| 1963 |
J.E.S. Fawcett: "Outer Space and International Order" |
| 1962 |
Sir John Cockcroft: "Problems of Disarmament" |
| 1961 |
Sir Harold Nicolson: "The Old Diplomacy and the New" |
| 1959 |
Professor P.M.S. Blackett: "The Problem of Underdeveloped Countries" |
| 1958 |
Rt. Hon. Earl Attlee: "Collective Security Under the United Nations" |
| 1957 |
Lord Salter: "The United Nations: Reform, Replace, or Supplement?" |
| 1956 |
Sir Charles Webster: "Sanctions: The Use of Force in an International Organisation" |
| 1955 |
Dr. Gilbert Murray: "The League of Nations Movement: Some Recollections of the Early Days" |
| 1954 |
Professor William E. Rappard: "The Quest for Yesterday and Today" |