Autumn Term 2023
11th September: Global Book Club – Discussion: Windrush: A Ship Through Time by Paul Arnott
6th November: Global Book Club – Discussion: Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser
11th November: Devon Globe Trotters – Talk by Des Kumar: Our trip to Bali
29th November: Gown meets Town – Talk by Samuel S. Munayer (Palestinian theologian from and based in Jerusalem) The Unity Intifada and Shireen Abu-Akleh: New Developments in Palestinian Muslim-Christian Relations
Spring Term 2024
10th January: Devon Globe Trotters on Zoom – Talk by Sue Errington (DDE): Food for Thought School Linking Programme in Uganda
29th January: Global Book Club – Discussion: The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World by Tim Marshall
6th March: Gown meets Town – Talk by Professor David Tollerton (University of Exeter): Holocaust Memory and the 1994 Rwanda Genocide
11th March: Global Book Club – Discussion: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef
14th March: Climate Change – COP28 – what was achieved?- Talk by Dr James Dyke, Associate Professor in Earth System Science, Exeter University
19th March: Celebrating 30 years of Fairtrade – Talk by Alison Derrick: Focus on Fairtrade Footballs
25th March: Friends of DDE Social Evening
Summer Term 2024
27th April: Devon Globe Trotters – Talk by Andrew Bell and Diana Moore: Experiences in Sri Lanka
29th April: Global Book Club – Discussion: Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
21st May: Exhibition at IAIS, University of Exeter) – Talk by Dr James Downs (University of Exeter) Challenging Legacies: The Kingdom of Iraq and Gertrude Bell
11th June: Food for Thought – Talk by Godfrey Kisakye (FFT Coordinator, Mubende District, Uganda) Life in rural schools in Uganda
15th June: Social Evening to meet Godfrey Kisakye
1st July: Global Book Club – Discussion: The Other Windrush: Legacies of Indenture in Britain’s Caribbean Empire edited by David Dabydeen and Maria del Pilar Kaladeen
8th July: Summer Party