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the DURHAM UNIONEASTER TERM 2018

TERM CARD

For the final time in our 176th anniversary year, it is an honour and a privilege to welcome you to the Easter 2018 Term at the Durham Union. It is a University Term that traditionally quietens during exams, before accelerating during the celebrations afterwards. Yet, for the first time in recent years, this Union Term will not follow the same path. With debates and socials right through to the last week, I hope there is an event for all members.

Whether international exper ts debating Tuition Fees, such as Professor Danny Dorling; key figures from Northern Ireland, among them Chris Hazzard MP, discussing the Good Friday Agreement; or a timely debate on the state of Israel, this Term has a debate for everyone. This is besides keynote addresses from the former CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi, Lord Adonis and the Hungarian Ambassador to name but a few of our speaker highlights.

In competitive debating, the Union retains one of the most successful debates’ training programmes, both nationally and internationally. In March our debaters were victorious at the English National Championships, whilst the A Team were most recently quar ter-finalists at the World Universities Debating Championships.

Getting involved in the Durham Union is a fantastic oppor tunity: to advance your CV, meet like-minded students and help run one of the world’s oldest student Societies. As a member, an officer within our General Committee, or through debating, you can take charge in organising the events and par ticipating in external competitions that drive our Union and its reputation forward.

In all, it has been a privilege to lead this Society, through a time of great change. With my Union colleagues we have led on developing a new website, uploading events to Youtube and hosting our inaugural Summer Ball, as well as our speaker events themselves. I hope that you find this Easter Term to be intellectually stimulating but, above all, great fun, and look forward to welcoming you very soon.

With best wishes,

Ollie LewisPresident, Easter 2018

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James Timpson AddressDebating Chamber, 8.30pm

Robert Senior AddressDebating Chamber, 8.30pm

Lord Adonis AddressDebating Chamber, 8.30pm

Daniel Kawcynzski AddressDebating Chamber, 8.30pm

Mr Kristof Szalay-Bobrovniczky Address


Ann Pettifor AddressDebating Chamber, 8.30pm

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8:30pm, The Debating Chamber, Palace Green

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THIS HOUSE

Would End University Tuition FeesFriday 27th April

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PROPOSITION

OPPOSITION

Professor Danny DorlingHalford Mackinder Professor of Geography at St Peter’s College, University

of Oxford and an expert on social inequality

Dan BurtonOfficer at the Durham University Labour Club

TBC

Tom Pursglove MPConservative Member of Parliament for Corby and East

Northamptonshire

Professor Behram Bekradia President of the Higher Education Policy Institute

Helen PatonTop-ranking Durham University NUS Delegate to the National Union of

Students’ National Conference, 2018

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MEMBERS ONLY

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES

That the Good Friday Agreement is Under Threat

Friday 4th May

PROPOSITION

OPPOSITION

Jamie BrysonLoyalist Pro-Unionist Activist and Political Blogger

Dr Alan GreeneAssistant Professor in Law in the Durham Law School

Chris Hazzard MPSinn Fein Member of Parliament for South Down

Dr Niall CunninghamProfessor in Human Geography at Durham University

Professor Peter ShirlowDirector of the Institute of Irish Studies at Liverpool University

Sam McBride Northern Ireland Political Editor for the i Newspaper

Cllr Lee Reynolds Director of Policy for the Democratic Unionist Party and former Head

of Vote Leave, Northern Ireland

Claire PiersonLecturer in Politics at the University of Liverpool and Co-founder of the

Reproductive Health Law and Policy Advisory Group

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MEMBERS ONLY

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES

That Israel is a Destabilising Force

Thursday 7th June

PROPOSITION

OPPOSITION

Dr Ruvi ZieglerAssistant Professor in Refugee Law at the University of Reading and

researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute

Marika SherwoodHungarian-born Holocaust Survivor and anti-colonialist historian

Jenny MansonCo-Chair of Jewish Voice for Labour

Dr Carly BeckermanAssistant Professor at the School of Government and International

Affairs at Durham University and Conflict Resolution Researcher on the

Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

Greg RomanDirector of the Middle East Forum

Jason PearlmanDeputy Director of the Henry Jackson Society and former Adviser to

the Israeli President

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Addresses

Nikos Sotirakopolous

‘Identity politics and the assault on free speech: in search of the missing link’

Dr Nikos Sotirakopoulos is a Lecturer in Sociology at York St John University, in the School of Psychological and Social Sciences. His research has focused on how in the last

decades some of the core values and concepts of modernity and the Enlightenment, such as individual agency and material progress, have

been problematized in the narratives both of the New Left and of the mainstream and extreme

Right. He is the author of the book ‘The Rise of Lifestyle Activism: from New Left to Occupy’ (2016, Palgrave MacMillan) and his address to the Union will discuss identity politics and the

accompanying assault on free speech.

30th April 20188:30pm, The Debating Chamber,

Palace Green

James Timpson OBEMr Timpson is CEO of the Timpson Group,

a multinational specialising in everything from shoe repair to dry cleaning, with an annual turnover of £250m. In 2011 he

received an OBE for ‘Services to Training and Employment for Disadvantaged People’, recognising his Chairmanship of the Prison Reform Trust and the Employers Forum for Reducing Reoffending. In business, he has promoted the rehabilitation of offenders, offering a second chance to hundreds of people with a criminal conviction through recruitment to Timpson’s. His address will cover all aspects of his career, including his

business and charitable work.

2nd May 20188:30pm, The Debating Chamber,

Palace Green

Baroness Caroline Cox FRCS FRCN

Baroness Cox is a cross-bench member of the House of Lords, where she has sat as a Life Peer in 1982, serving as a deputy

speaker of the Lords from 1985 to 2005. She has since acted as a Baroness-in-Waiting to the Queen and is a Founder Chancellor of

Bournemouth University. In 2003 she set up the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) and continues to serve as its CEO. Her address will centre upon her relief work in Asia and Africa and the role of her Christian faith in providing

such humanitarian aid.

3rd May 20188:30pm, The Debating Chamber,

Palace GreenFAREWELL DEBATE

This House Would Destroy the Durham

Students’ Union

This term’s farewell debate will focus on whether or not this House

would agree to the destruction of the Students’ Union, both as a building and entity. Forget planning laws or censure

motions, this debate will see a rapturous conclusion to the Union careers of

several senior Officers and members, with general hilarity all but guaranteed.

15th June 20188:30pm, The Debating Chamber, Palace Green



Kate Hoey MP and Paul Embery

‘Explaining left-wing Euroscepticism’

Ms Hoey has served as the Labour Member of Parliament for Vauxhall since 1989. Under Tony Blair, she served as

the Minister of State for Sport from 1999 to 2001, before returning to the backbenches. Since then, she has become renowned as an independent-minded Eurosceptic within

the Labour Party, taking a leading role in the Labour Leave and Grassroots Out campaigns during the EU

Referendum in 2016.

Mr Embery is a firefighter and the London Regional Secretary of the Fire Brigades’ Union. Describing himself as a ‘Blue Labour’ socialist, he is a proud Eurosceptic and

the National Organiser of Trade Unionists Against the EU. Both speakers will address the Union on the enduring

relevance of left-wing Euroscepticism, justifying it as a natural expression of socialist thinking, as opposed to a

contradiction in terms.


Addresses

His Excellency

Mr Kristof Szalay-

BobrovniczkyMr Szalay-Bobrovniczky has

been Hungary’s Ambassador to the UK since his appointment in 2016. Before this he served for five years as Vice-President of the Századvég Foundation, Hungary’s oldest and largest think tank. He will address

the Union on contemporary political issues affecting the

European Union and Hungary, including the UK’s EU exit

negotiations.


The Right Honourable Nicky Morgan MP and Dr Helen Pankhurst

‘A century of women in politics: The suffragettes and female suffrage’

Mrs Morgan is the Conservative MP for Loughborough. Since 2010 she has served as Minister for Women, before being promoted to Secretary of State for Education until 2016. A prominent Remain-backer during the EU Referendum, she has been labelled a ‘rebel’ on the backbenchers and since as the first female Chair of the Treasury Select Committee. A passionate feminist, Mrs Morgan will address the

Union on the legacy of the Suffragettes a century after the partial enfranchisement of women and the election of the first female MP.

Dr. Pankhurst, the great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst, leaders in the British suffragette movement, is the Christian

Action Research and Education (CARE) International UK’s campaign ambassador. She is also a Senior Technical Advisor for the Water Team of CARE USA with a remit of support to CARE’s water sector work internationally. Dr Pankhurst was

born in Ethiopia and worked there as the Country Representative for WaterAid. She also worked as Head of International Programmes for five years at WOMANKIND Worldwide. Dr Pankhurst will address the Union, and join a Q&A with Mrs Morgan,

on her book: Deeds Not Words, The Story of Women’s Rights, Then and Now

8th June 201812pm, The Debating Chamber, Palace Green


Daniel Kawczynski MP

Mr Kawczynski has been the Conservative MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham since winning it

from Labour in 2005. He is the first ever British MP to be born in Poland and, during his time

in Parliament, has sat on both the International Development Select Committee and the Justice Select Committee, as well as being a vociferous

voice in support of the Saudi Arabian Government. He will address the Union on his personal journey, from an immigrant to a UK

Member of Parliament.

14th June 20188:30pm, The Debating Chamber,

Palace Green

Addresses

The Right Honourable

Lord AdonisLord Andrew Adonis entered frontline

politics under New Labour, serving as Head of Tony Blair’s Number 10 Policy Unit

from 2001 to 2005. After being made a life peer in 2005, he was appointed Minister of State for Schools, Minister of State for Transport, before becoming Secretary of State for Transport. Since leaving office in 2010, Lord Adonis has served as chairman

of the National Infrastructure Commission, a position from which he resigned last year. He was a key voice in the 2016 EU Referendum and has since become one of the most vocal supporters of the United Kingdom remaining

a member of the EU. Lord Adonis is currently working on a book on the subject, the central topic of his address to the Union.


Palace Green

Robert SeniorMr Senior is the former Worldwide Chief

Executive of the Saatchi and Saatchi Group, the international advertising agency giant. A founding partner in Fallon London, an advertising agency that developed such

campaigns as the ‘Cake Car’ advert for Skoda and the ‘Gorilla’ advert for Cadbury’s Dairy Milk, he is an expert in his field. He is also a former Chairman of the Marketing Group of Great Britain and serves on the Association of Tennis Professional’s Business Advisory

Board. Mr Senior will address the Union on his career in advertising and experience of

the area as a potential career for Union members.


Palace Green

Ann Pettifor

Ms Pettifor is a global financial analyst and the director of Policy Research into Macroeconomics (PRIME), a group of economists concerned with Keynesian

monetary policy. After leading the Jubilee 2000 campaign to cancel $100 billion of debt owed by 35 countries, she correctly

predicted the 2008 financial crisis with books such as The Coming First World

Debt Crisis (2006). As a member of the Labour Party’s Economic Advisory Committee since September 2015, she

will address the Union on contemporary economic issues.


Palace Green


Each term the Union hosts regular social events for its members. Well known throughout Durham, ours are among the best at the University. Here is what we’ve got coming up for you in the Easter Term:

THE DURHAM UNION SUMMER BALL8th June 2018You are cordially invited to join us in June for the Union’s inaugural Summer Ball! Including a full three-course banquet, washed down with chilled wines sourced by our venerable Custodian, all followed by hours of casino gambling and dancing the night away to one of Durham’s many live bands, this will be an exquisite evening of entertainment.

Some say too that the wristband after-party may yet involve a well-known Durham club with sticky floors...

GARDEN PARTY24 NORTH BAILEY CLUB

16th June 2018Summer is in the air and the end of term approaches, which can only mean one thing: the Durham Union’s Garden Party! Don your dresses and dig out your blazers for an afternoon extravaganza, all in our Garden at 24s. With Pimm’s, Prosecco and a Wimbledon-themed food spread, this year’s Garden Party will not be one to miss!

For information on tickets for BOTH events, LIKE our The Durham Union Facebook page, FOLLOW The Durham Union on Twitter or VISIT our office on Palace Green.

SocialEVENTS


24 North Bailey Club (commonly known as ‘24s’) is one of the Durham Union’s most cherished assets.

No other student society at the University can claim to have its own private venue. Including a bar, garden space, Reading Room and living accommodation for Union members, the Club is undoubtedly the social hub of our society. By being situated in the very centre of Durham and unaffiliated to any college, the 24s bar is an excellent place to meet up with friends from all over the University. Every evening dozens of Durham students come here to relax and enjoy the Union’s great value mixers, cocktails and our famous shooters! Unlike most college bars it also has a huge beer garden, with Georgian charm and walls decorated with memories of past events, providing a fantastic backdrop to any night out. After our evening events it is not uncommon that speakers make a visit to the bar, so you never know who you might meet… All in all, it is truly one of the best student bars in Durham. We look forward to welcoming you soon!

Bar Events:

In addition to our regular free Union socials in the Reading Room, the bar holds its own regular events. Every other week on a Sunday night there is a Pub Quiz (in which winning teams are rewarded with a prize), as well as our famous ‘Open Mic Nights’, opening the floor to musicians and comedians from across Durham.

Opening Hours:

Sunday - Thursday: 8:30-11:30pmFriday & Saturday: 8:30pm-12:00am

24NORTH BAILEY CLUB

There are many ways to become involved in the Union besides attending our events. Putting together our termly programmes is a huge undertaking, involving a host of elected officers and committees. There really is a role for everyone who wants to get involved.

President’s CommitteeHelps the President prepare for their upcoming term, by researching speakers to invite to addresses, debates and forums, and assisting the President in drafting invitations.

Consultative Committee Connects the Union with the colleges. It consists of a representative from each of the University’s colleges, who are elected in order to gather members’ feedback, distribute Union publicity within their college and manage College Facebook groups.

Debates CommitteeOrganises the debating workshops and internal competitions. They help run three of the largest debating competitions in the UK: the Durham IV, the Durham Schools’ Competition and the Durham Open.

House Committee Responsible for taking care of the logistical operations that accompany each of our events.

Rules CommitteeAssist the Returning Officer in running free and fair elections to all Union positions, by scrutinising procedures. They also ensure that the Union’s constitution is constantly evolving and staying relevant.

Social CommitteeWorking with the Social Secretary, this committee helps organise the Union’s social events, and is perfect for anyone interested in getting involved with the creative side of the Union.

Sponsorship CommitteeIn tandem with the Sponsorship and Assistant Sponsorship Secretaries, this committee encourages outside bodies (local and national companies) to support the Union’s events.

GettingINVOLVED


President’s ThanksServing as President of the Durham Union has been one of the toughest, but also most rewarding roles that I have ever fulfilled. It is only through teamwork that such a great task can be accomplished, pulling together the collective efforts of members, officers and staff to secure speakers and put on our legendary socials. Without this help, organising what I hope is one of the most enjoyable and fulfilling Summer calendars in Union history, this Term could never have happened.

Firstly, I would like to thank Sharon, our Office Manager, and Alison for all their work in running the Union Office on Palace Green: whether booking rooms, organising deliveries or being a sounding board for my ambitious proposals, you are at the heart of making our Union succeed.

To Sponsorship Secretary Lucy Woodruff and Social Secretary Sabrina Steuer, in two of the most challenging roles in the Union, I am most grateful for your efforts in my term and beyond, helping to drive the Union’s open and sociable reputation forward.

Our debaters too are a pillar in the positive reputation the Durham Union holds, both in the UK and abroad, placing our squad in the higher echelons of international competitive debating. They are ably led by officers Maddie Copley and Martha Muir, and headed up by the indefatigable Rory Flynn,

to whom it has been a pleasure to work alongside on Standing Committee.

To my predecessor, the irreplaceable Jack Gilmore: infamous Northerner, renowned snake and a man of only occasional tact. I congratulate your efforts this term, that have aided the Presidential transition, whether in sourcing speakers or providing much-needed guidance: I thank you.

Of course, to Chris Clarke, I wish all the best with your term in Michaelmas 2018. Though your electoral mandate is most definitely questionable, I am certain you will do an excellent job, re-focusing your renowned shark-like instincts to organising another term filled with high-quality speakers.

Furthermore, to the final two of the Cuth’s trio, whose Union power grab has been one of the greatest exercises in political manoeuvring at the Union since, well, my election win…. many thanks to Rhodri Sheldrake-Davies and Rahul Prakash. I have no doubt that your experience in the digital modernisation of the Union and commitment to the Union Treasury and Secretariat will see you serve on Standing Committee and, perhaps even higher office, long into the future.

To my President’s Committee - namely Sarah Kuszynski, Alastair Sledge, Sarina Rivlin-Sanders, Oskar Eyers and Jack

StudentDEBATING

For those who would like to try debating, the Durham Union Society also has an excellent competitive squad.

Last year we were home to the ninth best team in the world, as well as recently winning many competitions at home in the UK, including in March at the English National Championships! Debating is an excellent way to develop your confidence in public speaking, and looks brilliant on a CV.

Almost every week we send students across the country to compete on behalf of Durham. We also compete at the World and European Debating Championships - recently this has seen our debaters travel to Malaysia, Mexico, Estonia, Poland, India, and beyond.

Our training program is one of the best in the UK. We run competitive speaking training at a novice, intermediate, and advanced level - so whatever your experience is, we would love to have you! In fact, some of Durham’s most successful speakers arrived on campus having never debated at all.

As well as fielding our own competitive squads, Durham hosts several prestigious debating competitions throughout the year, including our IV and Open. Notably, each March, we host the largest residential schools debating competition in the world: this year it was one of the biggest yet! This competition brings the best young public speakers from across the country, and occasionally the world, to speak at our Union. We often see students enrol at Durham who previously competed at Durham Schools too.

PROUDLY SPONSORED BY


Who’s Who

PresidentOllie Lewis

TreasurerRhodri Sheldrake-Davies

SecretaryRahul Prakash

President - ElectChristopher Clarke

Sponsorship SecretaryLucy Woodruff

CustodianGeorge Jackson

Director of DebatingRory Flynn

Social SecretarySabrina Steuer

Debate Competitions Secretary:Debate Training Secretary:

Speakers’ Secretary:Returning Officer:

Assistant Sponsorship Secretary:Assistant Social Secretary

Assistant Custodian:Assistant Secretary:

Equalites Officer:Technologies Officer:

Steward:

Maddy Copley Martha MuirJames PlautGeorge JacksonAlice LassmanPolly LindsayDan EgglestoneJack PerryAlastair SledgeSarina Rivlin-SandersWill Nattrass

Perry - the fact that I have included you all is testament to your efforts. You have shaped this Easter Term, been a source of indefinite solace to me personally and have gone further than I have asked, whether with recommendations in wine-browsing or helping to build a speaker database from scratch. This term symbolises your achievements as much as mine: I will never forget your individual contributions.

Finally, I cannot understate the support that former Presidents George Jackson and Daniel Cohen have offered, both before my election victory and since. Whether it has been direct assistance in procuring wine and entertainment for the Summer Ball; offering suggestions for and connections to speakers; or even pointers on this very Term Card, you have been fundamental to my Term’s success. For encouraging me throughout my time at the Union; for your irrepressible wits and side-splitting impressions; but most of all for being such firm personal friends, I thank you both.

Anyhow, it has been an honour to serve as this Society’s President. Despite the sleepless nights and nervous pains, the values and reach of this institution, as a pillar of free speech for over 175 years and a fast-developing forum for national debate, make these challenges worthwhile. Union friends will know me as someone who has suffered from perennial self-doubt and, on occasion, a certain tardiness... Yet by winning the first competitive election in two years and delivering on my detailed manifesto programme, it has been proven that the Union remains both a unique opportunity and a force for change in Durham, for anyone determined enough to put themselves forward and win. Even as battles rage over how we do this, I hope that our Society stands true to its core principles: a freedom to express, a freedom to disagree and a freedom to speak.

Thank you.

The Durham Union and The Durham Union Members 2017-18 and The Durham Union Alumni Group

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• Free entry to addresses from celebrities and leading public figures

• Free entry to debates with exper t speakers on topical issues, every

Friday night

• Access to the Union’s private bar and event venue, the 24 North

Bailey Club, with oppor tunities to live and work there too

• Learn how to debate as a novice, or hone your skills with our world-

class debating squad

• Free admission to the events and facilities of the Oxford, Cambridge

and Edinburgh Unions

• Experience our members-only socials, which are amongst the best in

Durham

• Access exclusive discounts in independent shops across Durham

• Get involved in running Durham’s largest and oldest society - a great

addition to any CV!

• Socialise with students from across Durham, from different colleges

and degree courses

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