Guest Lecture Series

25/04/2009

Guest Lectures Series

Richmond, The American International University in London Richmond organises Guest Lectures during the course of its academic year and invites distinguished speakers to give presentations on a variety of subjects. Lectures are free and open to all staff and students at Richmond as well as to outside audiences. The themes of these Guest Lectures cover a range of academic disciplines which support the liberal arts tradition. They also involve non-academic areas that reflect the concerns of business and industry on contemporary global issues.

Recent Guest Lectures:

‘Countering insurgencies in the 21st century’
On Tuesday, 21 April 2009 we were pleased to welcome General Sir Michael Rose to the Richmond Hill campus. A former UN commander, General Rose has written and lectured extensively around the world on strategic issues. The talk discussed the insurgency faced by the British during the American War of Independence and compared it to the insurgency faced by the US and UK as allies in Iraq.

The ex-Coldstreamer and SAS leader, was critical of Britain’s involvement in the Iraq war both as a stand alone campaign and as a distraction from the main effort in Afghanistan. The Afghanistan effort suffering a reversal because of the diversion of resources into Iraq.

Attending the lecture were Lord Watson of Richmond and members of the Richmond Society as well as staff and students of the University.

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