What's On
19 May, 2009 to 03 June, 2009
Faith and the City, Shami Chakrabarti - Wednesday 3 June 2009
Date: Wednesday 3rd June 2009
Time: Registration from 5:00pm for a prompt start at 6:00pm (finishing at 7:30pm)
Venue: The Great Hall, Richmond Building, University of Bradford
Richmond Road, Bradford, BD7 1DP
The University of Bradfords School of Lifelong Education and Development in partnership with the Bradford District Faiths Forum has established the Faith and the City programme. The programme is a series of thought provoking and challenging discussions, dialogues and discourses that will be led by speakers who are authorities and critiques in the broad field of religion and politics.
The purpose of this programme is to raise the level of debate amongst all communities and to encourage us to collectively think about difficult issues around cohesion, faith, politics and values.
The title of this event is An Audience with Shami Chakrabarti(Biography below), Director, Liberty - Protecting Civil Liberties, Promoting Human Rights www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk
The University coffee shop, Coffee with Principles will remain open in the Atrium where refreshments will be available to purchase before the event.
Places are free but must be booked. To be part of this event please secure your seat by sending an email to nasar.fiaz@bradforddistrictfaithsforum.org.uk or calling 01274 395398.
About the speaker
Shami Chakrabarti has been Director of Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties) since September 2003. Shami first joined Liberty as In-House Counsel on 10 September 2001. She became heavily involved in its engagement with the War on Terror and with the defence and promotion of human rights values in Parliament, the Courts and wider society.
A Barrister by background, she was called to the Bar in 1994 and worked as a lawyer in the Home Office from 1996 until 2001 for Governments of both persuasions.
Since becoming Libertys Director she has written, spoken and broadcast widely on the importance of the post-WW2 human rights framework as an essential component of democratic society. She is Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, a Governor of the London School of Economics and the British Film Institute, and a Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and a Master of the Bench of Middle Temple.
She is thirty nine years old and lives with her husband and six year old son in London.