Democracy in Crisis Lecture Series: 'Democracy, Morality and Religion', 9 February 2010
15 Aug 2013
Tuesday 9 February 2010
6.30pm in the Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade
This is the second talk in the CAPPE Democracy in Crisis Lecture Series. Mary Warnock will be speaking on Democracy, Morality and Religion. The lecture will be followed by audience questions and discussion.
The talk is open to all, whether members of the university or not. However space is limited so please arrive early to avoid disappointment. The doors will be open from 6.00pm.
Warnock was a member of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) from 1973 to 1981. She was chair of the UK committee of inquiry into special education (1974–78), and from 1979 to 1985, she advised the UK committee on animal experiments. From 1982 to 1984 she chaired an inquiry into human fertilisation, the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology, whose final report is often called the Warnock report. She was created a life peer in 1985 as Baroness Warnock, of Weeke in the City of Winchester. She is a patron of The Iris Project.
