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Lectures aim to raise equality awareness
Mariella Frostrup, journalist
and campaigner for women’s rights
and gender equality, will give the
International Women’s Day Annual
Lecture on 8 March.
She will be joined by a variety of
speakers from EQUALS, a coalition
of charities and arts organisations
brought together by Annie Lennox to
celebrate International Women’s Day
and encourage a younger generation
to call for a more equal world.
The lecture, which starts at
5.45pm in the Howard Theatre,
Downing College, will be hosted
by Professor Dame Athene Donald,
equality champion for gender at the
University.
Mariella will talk about her work
for global charity the GREAT Initiative,
which engages in issues of gender
imbalance and works to encourage
improvements for women, children
and families on the African continent.
Other events across the University
and city will be taking place to
mark International Women’s Day,
among them ‘No Going Back! What
next for women today?’, a series of
talks, exhibitions and workshops by
some 20 groups and organisations
across Cambridge. Speakers include
Professor Donald, Julie Spence
OBE, former Chief Constable of
Cambridgeshire Constabulary,
Antoinette Jackson, Chief Executive
of Cambridge City Council, and Kat
Banyard, author, critic and feminist
campaigner.
Also in March, Dame Anne Begg
MP will deliver the 10th Annual
Disability Lecture – ‘Two Steps
Forward, One Step Back: Challenges
to Disabled People in 2012’.
The lecture, which starts at 5.30pm
on 22 March in the Palmerston Room
at St John’s College, is open to all, and
will be followed by a drinks reception.
Fully wheelchair accessible, there will
also be a sign language interpreter
present.
Dame Anne is a British Labour
Party politician and former teacher
who has been the Member of
Parliament for Aberdeen South
since 1997.
She was the first full-time user of
a wheelchair elected to the House
of Commons and is now Chair of the
Work and Pensions Select Committee.
For more information on either
event, visit http://www.admin.cam.
ac.uk/offices/hr/equality/cambridge/
Left: Mariella Frostrup, journalist
and campaigner, will speak at the
International Women’s Day Lecture.
Above: Dame Anne Begg will give the
Annual Disability Lecture
Lucy Capewell
Lucy Capewell, New Media Manager in the Office
of External Affairs and Communications, was the
driving force behind much of the University’s work
in digital and new media.
Lucy joined the University in 2006 after a 20-year
career in broadcasting, most of which she spent
working on television documentaries. Her brief at
Cambridge was to lead the development of ‘new’
➔ Professor Ian White has been elected
the 40th Master of Jesus College with
effect from 1st October. He will succeed
Professor Robert Mair, who has been
Master since 2001. Professor White was an
undergraduate, graduate student and then
Research Fellow at the college. He is van
Eck Professor of Engineering in the
University’s Engineering Department,
Head of Photonics Research and Pro-Vice-
Chancellor for Institutional Affairs.
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