Events
The Foreign Policy Centre holds events to engage the public in debates around key international affairs issues. These include seminars, conferences, keynote speeches and expert roundtables. The majority of events will take place in London but the FPC will work with partners to hold events in other UK Cities and internationally. To listen to recordings of previous events visit our YouTube page or click on past events. For general enquiries about our events, please email: events@fpc.org.uk.
3rd UK Anti-SLAPP Conference: Tracking Implementation
The Foreign Policy Centre (FPC), the Justice for Journalists Foundation (JFJ) and the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) are delighted to announce the third edition of the UK Anti-SLAPP Conference to be held on Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 November 2023, both online and in-person in London. We are pleased that we will also be joined this year by the Thomson Reuters Foundation as a supporting ...
More infoSee the full list of speakers here.
London & Online
2nd UK Anti-SLAPP Conference: Spotlighting Solutions
The Foreign Policy Centre (FPC), Justice for Journalists (JFJ) Foundation and the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) are delighted to announce the second edition of their UK Anti-SLAPP Conference to be held on Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th November 2022, both online and in-person in London. Following a highly successful inaugural conference last November, which highlighted the issue of SLAPPs with the participation of more than 40 ...
More infoFurther information on speakers to be announced.
You can register to attend here on Eventbrite.
Watch all panelists on our YouTube.
London and Online
Faith and State: Understanding the role of religious identities in political life in the Middle East
The SEPAD project and the Foreign Policy Centre (FPC) are delighted to announce the Faith and State conference to be held on Tuesday 12th July in London. This conference will examine the importance of religious identities within the fabric of states in the Middle East. While a great deal of work has been undertaken looking at sectarian differences, comparatively little discussion of the ways in which people have rejected such identities, in ...
More infoProfessor Simon Mabon (Director of SEPAD and Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University)
The Rt Hon Alistair Burt (Pro-Chancellor, Lancaster University)
Dr Ruba Ali Al-Hassani (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lancaster University)
Dr Ibrahim Halawi (Teaching Fellow, Royal Holloway University)
Professor Sana Al Sarghali (Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law, An-Najah University)
Professor Toby Dodge (Professor of International Relations, LSE)
Adam Hug (Director of the FPC)
Dr Hadeel Abdelhameed (Konrad Adenauer-Stiftung Research Fellow)
Anne Kirstine Rønn (PhD Student, Aarhus University)
Drewery Dyke (Chairperson, Rights Realization Centre)
Dr Mustafa Menshawy (Post Doctoral Researcher at SEPAD, Lancaster University)
Professor Staci Strobl (Assistant Dean and Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville)
1st UK Anti-SLAPP Conference: Countering Legal Threats to Media Freedom
The Justice for Journalists (JFJ) Foundation and the Foreign Policy Centre (FPC) are delighted to announce the first UK anti-SLAPP conference to be held on Monday 22nd November and Tuesday 23rd November 2021. Journalists around the world are facing a significant, yet often hidden, challenge to their role as public watchdogs. The use of vexatious legal threats, often referred to as Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation (SLAPP), have proliferated globally in recent years. They are ...
More infoYou can register to attend and see the full conference agenda here: anti-slappconference.info.
London and Online
The Gulf States: An Aspired Future
We are pleased to confirm we are taking part in an all-day conference covering political reform, human rights and media freedom in the Gulf, alongside ALQST: Advocating for Human Rights, DIWAN LONDON, SALAM: For Democracy and Human Rights, Muwatin Media Network and Lancaster University. This event aims to identify some of the main challenges facing the region, from undemocratic governance to a lack of civic space and free press, highlighting ...
More infoDr James Worrall, University of Leeds
Yahya Assiri, ALQST
Dr Simon Mabon, Lancaster University
Rhodri Davies, Writer & journalist
Adel Marzooq, Gulf House
Safa Al Ahmad, Filmmaker
Bill Law, The Gulf Matters
Juliet Wells, Temple Garden Chambers
Dr Marc Valeri,University of Exeter
Anwar Rasheed, Gulf Forum for Civil Society Organisations
Drewery Dyke, Rights Realization Centre
Dr Haifaa Khalafallah, Sinai Centre for Islamic Mediterranean Studies
Sheikha Aljasim, Kuwait University
Taif Al Khudary, LSE Middle East Center
Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International
Tara Reynor O’Grady, SALAM
Mohammed al-Fazari, Muwatin Media Network
Matthew Hedges, Durham University
Jawad Fairooz, SALAM
Josh Cooper, ALQST and SALAM
Sahar al-Faifi, Civil rights activist
Adam Hug, Foreign Policy Centre
The Yaa Centre, 1 Chippenham Mews, London W9 2AN
Solutions to Sectarianism? Examining efforts at ‘de-sectarianisation’ across the Middle East
On 10 September the Foreign Policy Centre and the Richardson Institute at the University of Lancaster hosted a conference entitled Solutions to Sectarianism? Examining efforts at ‘de-sectarianisation’ across the Middle East, part of the Sectarianism, Proxies & De-sectarianisation (SEPAD) project. The conference explored the role of sectarian identities in an increasingly complex and fluid Middle East. It seeked to move forward from the analysis of the regional situation provided by ...
More infoDr Simon Mabon, Lancaster University
Dr Morten Valbjørn, Aarhus University
Samira Nasirzadeh, Lancaster University
Dr Edward Wastnidge, Open University
Adam Hug, Foreign Policy Centre
Professor Toby Dodge, LSE
Fanar Haddad, National University of Singapore
Ana Maria Kumarasamy, Lancaster University
Dr Staci Strobl, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Thomas Fibiger, Aarhus University
Drewery Dyke, Rights Realisation Centre
Anne Kirstine Rønn, Aarhus University
Dr Bassel Salloukh, Lebanese American University
Simona Sikimic-French, Islamic Relief
Dr Sana Al Sarghali, An-Najah National University
Dr Mohammad Yaghi, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Work Foundation, 21 Palmer St, Westminister, London SW1H 0AD
Saudi Arabia and Iran: The Struggle to Shape the Middle East Conference
On 11 September the Foreign Policy Centre and the Richardson Institute at the University of Lancaster hosted a conference entitled Saudi Arabia and Iran: The Struggle to Shape the Middle East, part of the Sectarianism, Proxies & De-sectarianisation (SEPAD) project. Since the Arab Uprisings in late 2010 and the fragmentation of regime-society relations that followed, relationships between communities have continued to degenerate across the Middle East. The existence of difference ...
More infoDr Simon Mabon, Lancaster University
Professor Toby Dodge, LSE
Professor Madawi Al Rasheed, LSE
Dr Bassel Salloukh, Lebanese American University
Dr May Darwich, Durham University
Dr Chris Phillips, QMUL
Dr Rahaf Al Doughli, Lancaster University
Dr Eddie Wastnidge, The Open University
Dr Hannes Baumann, University of Liverpool
Dr Lucia Ardovini, Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Geneive Abdo, the Arabia Foundation
Work Foundation, 21 Palmer St, Westminster, London SW1H 0AD