Selwyn College's 2015 Ramsay Murray lecture will be given by the award-winning BBC broadcaster Bridget Kendall. She will speak about President Putin and Russia, sharing her extensive experience of the country in recent decades.
Bridget Kendall was educated at Lady Margaret Hall and St Antony’s College, Oxford, and was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard. She is a former Moscow correspondent; and now, as BBC diplomatic correspondent, she returns to Russia frequently and was one of the main commentators on the Ukraine crisis which made global headlines in recent months.
The Ramsay Murray lecture is an annual event organised by Selwyn College following a bequest from the late Lt Col Ramsay Murray, a loyal alumnus of the College, who was resident at Selwyn during the 1930s. Since the series began in 1994 we have attracted distinguished speaker including Sir Michael Howard, Sir Keith Thomas, Roy Porter, Ian Clark, Lawrence Freedman, Onora O'Neill, Niall Ferguson, Ian Kershaw, David Cannadine, Jonathan Riley-Smith, Quentin Skinner, Ludmilla Jordanova, Richard Carwardine and Judith Herrin.
Ms Kendall's lecture will take place on Friday May 1st at 5.30pm in Room LG19, Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site - which is just two minutes' walk from the College. There is a Facebook event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/1414049742246223/, and please note that seating will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. A video of the lecture will be available online after the event.
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