Britain's future relationship with the EU: A German Perspective
07 May 2024, 5:45 pm–7:30 pm
Join us for the annual Sir Julian Priestley Memorial Lecture, given by Annette Dittert and hosted for the first time at UCL.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Lucy Shackleton
Location
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Gustave Tuck Lecture TheatreWilkins Building (Main Building), Gower StreetLondonWC1E 6BT
This year's lecture will be given by Annette Dittert, senior correspondent of the German public broadcaster ARD, with the title Britain's future relationship with the EU - a German perspective.
The lecture will be chaired by Mike Galsworthy, Chair of the European Movement, and hosted by UCL European Institute, with a first response given by UCL ESPS student and Chairwoman of the EISPS Society, Ioana Turcan. The event will also be streamed online.
Please arrive from 17:45, for a prompt 18:00 start.
The event will be followed by a drinks reception in UCL South Cloisters.
Speaker biography
Annette Dittert is a foreign correspondent and passionate filmmaker for ARD German TV. She became known to a wide audience as a bureau chief and correspondent in Warsaw, later in New York and London.
Poland remained an affair of the heart, but London became her adopted home. Annette set up tent in the UK capital for the first time in 2008 to lead the ARD London office as head correspondent. It remained her home even after she ended her tenure in 2014 to travel across the world as a special correspondent for ARD. In 2019, she returned to London to resume her position as head correspondent and bureau chief of the ARD studio.
Annette Dittert was awarded two Grimme Awards for her films. In 2004, she received the Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award for reporting on Poland.
Details of past Julian Priestley Lectures can be found here: https://www.europeanmovement.co.uk/julian_priestley_lecture
The 2023 lecture was given by Alastair Campbell.