The second Wilberforce Lecture of 2008 will be delivered at Holy Trinity church on Friday 21st November 2008 at 5.30pm by the Foreign Secretary, Rt. Hon David Milliband M.P..
His subject will be “Russia in a changing world”.
At the same event the Wilberforce Medal for 2008 will be awarded posthumously to Anna Politkovskaya, the campaigning journalist of the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, who was assassinated in the lift of her Moscow apartment building two years ago.
From the information I have and especially following the recent victory in the U.S. presidential elections of President-Elect Obama, the content will now focus much more on the changing world than Russia and so may prove very interesting.
Unfortunately, the “security” demands of the Foreign Office are preventing us from widely advertising this event until a few days before it takes place, not until next week in fact and clearly we do not want to present Mr. Milliband with an empty church, so if you are at all interested I do urge you to obtain a ticket from the City Hall Box Office. These are available now to those who ask, though you do have to give your name and address. Apologies for these complications but I’m afraid the details of the arrangements are not under the control of the Trustees.
You may also receive a Global e-mail about this event but probably not until the middle of next week.
Entries (RSS)