Dialogues Academic Lecture Programme

Shrewsbury
Dialogues
Academic
Programme
Lent Term 2024

Shrewsbury Dialogues
Dialogue(n): a conversational exchange or
serious exchange of opinion.
The dialogue as a literary genre has historically aimed
to clarify our understanding of difficult concepts,
expose our assumptions and, in the Socratic style,
promote wisdom and the pursuit of truth. Today, the
notion of ‘dialogue’ suggests an open and authentic
discussion, which moves beyond the desire to reach a
definitive conclusion or express a viewpoint.
The Dialogues programme aims to engage speakers
from an exciting range of academic disciplines to
share their expertise with Shrewsbury School and our
wider community. The series may contain lectures,
workshops and exhibitions, which will always contain
interactive elements, and opportunity for discussion
and reflection.
Our aim is to deepen our own understanding by
learning from one another, in an environment
characterised by intellectual inquiry, respect and
equality.
Lent Term 2024
This term’s programme celebrates an eclectic range of
speakers, united by a commitment to conveying messages
of vital importance. The series begins with a sober
reminder about the horrors of the Holocaust, and continues
with an examination of the ongoing need for urgent
humanitarian aid by a pioneering transplant surgeon. A
world-leading psychiatrist will examine the intersection of
medicine and the humanities, and ethical matters will be
debated by a panel of business experts. Others will speak
with dedication and enthusiasm about testing the limits of
human endeavour. The arts will be celebrated with more
excellent poetry recitals and workshops.
With many thanks to colleagues, pupils and the wider
school community for their role in organising and
supporting these events.
We hope you enjoy the series, and continue to welcome
ideas for future Dialogues.
n Emma Hellyer, Head of Teaching & Learning
ejh@shrewsbury.org.uk
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Our Speakers
Peter and Moira Hart
(Holocaust Education Trust)
Holocaust Memorial
Lecture
Wednesday 10th January, 7.30pm
Barnes Theatre
Peter and Moira will present the survival story of Peter’s
mother, Kitty Hart-Moxon OBE.
Kitty and her mother were imprisoned in Auschwitz-
Birkenau in 1943, having fled a Jewish ghetto in
Poland. Kitty was forced to work for 8 months in the
Kanadakommando, a work group that had to sort the
belongs of the camp’s victims. The complex where Kitty
worked was situated very close to two of the four gas
chambers and crematoria in Birkenau. This means that
Kitty was a witness to the relentless killing that took place.
Kitty endured many other horrific experiences
before the camp of Bergen-Belsen was liberated
by American forces on 14th April 1945. Kitty and
her mother were the only survivors of her family,
and she has since felt it her duty to speak out
about her past, and warn of the consequences of
intolerance, racism and hatred.
Peter and Moira wish to ensure that Kitty’s
testimony continues to be told in the future, for
the message of ‘never again’ to be explained to
the next generation.
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Professor John Buckels CBE
‘Médecins Sans
Frontières, Africa
and Me’
Friday 12th January, 7.30pm
Moser Library
This talk will focus on the work of Médecins Sans
Frontières, particularly in Africa where it spends around
two thirds of its budget. It will start with how Africa was
disadvantaged, particularly by colonisation as well as lack
of food sources which delayed technical developments.
It will then describe where MSF has chosen to work, the
range of its activities and the challenges of working in
austere environments.
John was born and brought up in Liverpool then studied
medicine at the University of Birmingham. He trained
in surgery and was subsequently appointed to the Queen
Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham as a Consultant Surgeon
with a special interest in transplantation. He pioneered
reduced and split liver transplants in the UK and was
awarded a CBE for Services to Transplantation in 2002. As
a student he worked in Nigeria in 1971, one year after the
end of the Biafran War, which inspired him to work after
retirement in the humanitarian field. John has done 14
missions with MSF of which 13 have been in Africa.
n Book and reserve your free space for this talk:
ShrewsburyDialoguesProfessorBuckels.eventbrite.co.uk

Oliver Logan
STEM in Olympic and
Paralympic Sport
Monday 22nd January, 7.30pm
Science Lecture Theatre
Olly works as a performance consultant for British
Swimming, with expertise spanning Biomechanics,
Performance Analysis and Innovation in all aquatic
disciplines. Before this he spent 12 years at the English
Institute of Sport where he worked with Archery GB,
British Athletics, British Wheelchair Basketball and
English Table Tennis.
Since the early 1990s, Olympic and Paralympic sports
have gradually increased their use of expertise in STEM
subjects to help push performance levels. In his talk,
Olly will provide examples of how sports performance
staff use STEM first principles to solve some of the most
challenging performance problems, including:
n How knowledge and understanding of
aerodynamics and hydronamics is used to
create faster bikes, swimming suits and boats to
improve performance.
n How computer science is now used to analyse
larger data sets than ever before to give sports a
greater insight into key performance indicators.
n How maths and projectile motion is used to
model and optimise athlete performance.
n Book and reserve your free space for this talk:
ShrewsburyDialoguesOliverLogan.eventbrite.co.uk
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Professor Femi Oyebode
‘My Life in Psychiatry’
Wednesday 24th January, 7.30pm
Barnes Theatre
Professor Oyebode led the Department of Psychiatry
at the University of Birmingham from 2003-2009, and
was awarded the 2016 Royal College of Psychiatrists
lifetime achievement award after decades of research on
clinical psychopathology and delusional misidentification
syndromes. His other specialisms include the medical
humanities and the application of ethics to psychiatric
practice. Since retiring from clinical practice in 2021, he
has focused on teaching, broadcast work and writing.
He is on the editorial board of the British Journal of
Psychiatry, the Council of the Royal Society of Medicine,
and presented the 2023 BBC Radio 4 series, Is Psychiatry
Working?
In his talk at Shrewsbury, Professor Oyebode will share
insights from his career, including his views on the
intersection of medicine and humanities. As a published
poet and author of books such as Madness at the
Theatre, Professor Oyebode will discuss his views on the
humanising role of literature in medicine. Students and
guests will be invited to explore the idea that the ‘wonder
of the human being is the capacity to imagine the other.’
n Book and reserve your free space for this talk:
ShrewsburyDialoguesProfessorOyebode.eventbrite.co.uk

Dr Maria Golovteeva
Navigating the
Art World
Monday 5th February, 5.00pm
Art School
Dr Maria Golovteeva holds a PhD in History of Art from
the University of St Andrews. She has worked in the
London art sphere for several years, including four years
at Sotheby’s and Christie’s auction houses. She currently
works on cataloguing, researching and digitising the Menil
archive at the Warburg’s Institute Photographic Collection,
University of London.
In her talk, she will discuss her experience in auction
houses, communications and academia.
Sir Vernon Bogdanor
The Constitutional
Effect of Brexit
Monday 5th February, 7.30pm
Science Lecture Theatre (Live screening)
Sir Vernon Bogdanor is Professor of Government at the
Institute of Contemporary British History, King’s College,
London. He was formerly for many years Professor of
Government at Oxford University. His books include
Devolution; The People and the Party System; Multi-
Party Politics and the Constitution; Power and the People;
Devolution in the United Kingdom; The New British
Constitution and The Coalition and the Constitution.
He is currently writing a multi-volume work on British
political history from 1895 to 1997.
He has been an adviser on constitutional issues to a
number of governments, including Albania, Czech
Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Israel, Mauritius, Slovakia and
Trinidad. He is a frequent contributor to the press and also
in the media, appearing, for example, on the BBC election
programme in 2010, the Brexit referendum programme
in 2016 and on programmes to mark the death of Queen
Elizabeth II and the accession of King Charles III.
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We will be delighted to learn from one of Britain’s foremost
constitutional experts about the implications of Brexit.
With thanks to Gabriel S (O, LVI) for organising this
event.

Professor Luke Kennard
Poetry Workshops
and Recital
Monday 19th February, 5.00pm
Moser Library
Luke Kennard is a poet and novelist who lives in
Birmingham. He won an Eric Gregory award for his poetry
in 2005. His second book of poems The Harbour Beyond
the Movie (Salt, 2007) was shortlisted for the Forward
Prize, making him the youngest poet to be nominated in
the prize’s history. His 5th collection, Cain (Penned in
the Margins, 2016), was shortlisted for the International
Dylan Thomas Prize 2017. His first novel, The Transition
(4th Estate), longlisted for the Desmond Elliott award,
was published in 2017 and his second, The Answer to
Everything (Harper Collins) was published in 2021. Notes
on the Sonnets, a sequence of 154 prose poems in response
to Shakespeare’s sonnets was published by Penned in the
Margins in 2021 and won the Forward Prize
for Best Collection that year. He lectures in the
Department of Film and Creative Writing at the
University of Birmingham.
Luke will hold a poetry workshop in societies
hour, before judging the Bentley Elocution Final
at 7.30pm in the Barnes Theatre.
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Sandy Irvine
100th Anniversary
Exhibition
Monday 26th February - Friday 1st March
Moser Library
Andrew ‘Sandy’ Irvine was an English mountaineer
who took part in the 1924 British Everest Expedition.
He was educated at Shrewsbury School before studying
engineering at Oxford. Whilst attempting an ascent
of Mount Everest, he and his climbing partner George
Mallory disappeared somewhere high on the mountain’s
ridge and died. It is unknown whether they ever reached
the summit.
For his Extended Project Qualification, Archie P-S (SH,
LVI) has organised an exhibition and commemorative
event to mark the 100th anniversary of the expedition.
This exhibition will comprise of:
n Archives from Merton College, Oxford, and Magdalen
College, Cambridge, where Irvine and Mallory were
students.
n Replica clothing from the Mountain Heritage Trust.
n Film footage from The Alpine Club.
n A history of mountaineering at Shrewsbury School
curated by Dr Robin Brookes-Smith.

Everest 1924
Centenary
Commemoration
Thursday 29th February, 7.30pm
Alington Hall
This commemorative event, organised by Archie P-S
(SH, LVI) will welcome prominent mountaineers and
experts to reflect on the 1924 Everest Expedition.
Guests will include:
n Alan Hinkes OBE - the first British mountaineer to
claim all 14 of the world’s mountains above 8000m in
height. He has survived the Death Zone on Everest five
times and K2 three times.
n Dr Charles Clarke - the medical officer on the 1975
South West Face of Everest expedition which placed
the first British mountaineers on the top of Everest.
Charles is a renowned Consultant Neurologist and
international expert on altitude illnesses.
n Julie Summers - the great niece of Sandy Irvine.
Julie is the acclaimed author of Fearless on
Everest - The Quest for Sandy Irvine.
n Dr Adam Booth - a local GP who grew up
exploring the Shropshire hills and learned to
climb in Snowdonia. He has climbed Everest
twice.
A filmed montage will also be shown, with
contributions from Sir Chris Bonington, Graham
Hoyland and Rebecca Stephens MBE.
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Business Ethics Forum
Tuesday 5th March, 7.30pm
Barnes Theatre
Fifty years ago, Milton Friedman, winner of the Nobel
Prize for economics and a fierce advocate of free markets,
argued that “there is one and only one social responsibility
of business - to use its resources and engage in activities
designed to increase its profits”. In the years that followed
many took the same view.
Many would now argue that “good ethics is good business”,
since companies with an eye on their triple bottom line
(economic, environmental and social sustainability) often
perform well on the stock market. In this forum, our guests
will debate the moral obligations of businesses.
Speakers to include:
n Will Kenyon - worked for PwC for 30 years as a
Chartered Accountant, where he specialised in the
prevention, detection and investigation of fraud, false
accounting, bribery and corruption and other aspects of
economic crime.
n Tom Tildesley - Chief Financial Officer, Innovo. Prior
to joining Innovo, Tom held senior finance roles in
Vistry Group Plc, Imperial Brands Plc and Maersk Oil,
delivering both finance transformations and supporting
significant business growth during his tenures.
n Mark Steeves - an experienced board chair, company
director, international businessman and entrepreneur.
Has a wide range of experience in start-ups, SMEs and
multinationals; extensive contacts in frontier markets,
especially in Africa; in oil and gas, mining and their
service sectors; and in financial services including
investment banking and insurance.
n Book and reserve your free space for this talk:
ShrewsburyBusinessEthicsForum.eventbrite.co.uk

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