Welcome back, and we hope you have had a good break.

This term looks very promising, with the ability for you to become more involved by being next year’s committee!  The term card is as follows:

9 February 2009, 16.30 – 18.30, Mother Languages Day, Ramsden Room, St Cat’s College.

Join us for our campaign to celebrate the many languages that we have!  Also part of One World Week.

6 March 2009, 16.30 – 18.30, CUUNA AGM, Tim Hele Room, Queens Building, Emmanuel College.

The Annual General Meeting, to organise the committee for the following year.

12 March

2009, 17.00-18.00, Speaker Event: Bridget Kendall, Queens Building, Emmanuel College.

Bridget Kendall has been BBC diplomatic correspondent since 1998; and covers top foreign stories for radio, television and online news.  She reports on a wide range of international diplomatic and security issues, but has a particular interest and expertise in Russia and East/West relations, dating from when she was BBC Moscow correspondent at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union.  In the last eight years she has followed daily diplomatic and military developments from London in the run up to and during the recent war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, and the war in Kosovo.  She has also travelled frequently with the British Foreign Secretary, including on official trips to Iraq and Afghanistan, Pakistan, Darfur and Iran.