Borders and Boundaries - A Festival of Ideas 2017 by Canford School

Borders and Boundaries A FESTIVAL OF IDEAS TUESDAY 17TH - FRIDAY 20TH OCTOBER 2017 1

OVERVIEW OF SCHEDULE AND EXPECTED ATTENDANCE Parents and members of the community are very welcome to all events. Each event is allocated to a particular group: students are very welcome to all events, but timetabled lessons must not be missed in order to attend. Out of timetable events are open to all without restriction.

TUESDAY 17TH OCTOBER

THURSDAY 19TH OCTOBER 8.45am - 10.05am, Layard Theatre Dr. Daniel Field - The Origin of Modern Birds and the Dinosaur Resurrection Upper Sixth 10.45am - 11.45am, Layard Theatre Annette Anthony - Is Gerrymandering in the US out of Democratic Bounds Politics/History Sixth Form

11.50am - 1.05pm, Layard Theatre Major General Rupert Jones - The Campaign to Defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria All Sixth Form

11.50am - 12.50pm, Layard Theatre Jillian Haslam - Without Borders and No Boundaries Shells / Fourth Form

5.30pm - 6.30pm, Layard Theatre Dr. Andrew Wines - From Civil Rights to Culture Wars on the Road to Trump’s America Politics, History & English Sixth Form

5.30pm - 6.30pm, Layard Theatre Matthew Knott (W04) - The Borderlines of Identity English/Drama/Art Sixth Form and general interest

7.30pm - 8.30pm, Layard Theatre Kei Miller - The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion Fifth Form, Sixth Form English, Religious Studies, Modern Languages, Geography

7.00pm - 7.30pm, Music School Canford Pianists - Crossing the Line 1 All who can make it are welcome

WEDNESDAY 18TH OCTOBER 8.45am - 10.05am, Layard Theatre George Davis (L09) - Honey Hunting Shells / Fourth Form 11.45am - 1.05pm, Layard Theatre Gavin Graham - Frontier Markets Lower Sixth 7.30pm - 8.40pm, Layard Theatre Professor Minesh Khashu - Where Do I End and You Begin? Biology/Chemistry/Physics/Religious Studies Sixth Form and anyone interested in life, learning and ideas

7.30pm - 8.30pm, Music School Béla Hartmann and Vasilis Rakitzis, Piano - Crossing the Line 2 Musicians/Music scholars/Piano pupils/ Fifth Form boarders plus others if they can make it 8.45pm - 9.45pm, Long Gallery Sir Anthony Seldon - A World without Boundaries Heretics Society, all others including parents very welcome

FRIDAY 20TH OCTOBER 8.45am - 10.05am, Layard Theatre Dr. Georgina Fozard (W04) - Psychiatry at the Borderline: Challenges of working in NHS mental health All potential Sixth Form Medical Students 11.50am - 1.05pm, Layard Theatre Hugh Pym and Dr. Georgina Fozard (W04) in Conversation - The Borderlines and Boundaries of Health Upper and Lower Sixth 1.45pm - 3.05pm, Layard Theatre Dr. Andrew Pinsent - Escaping the Snow Queen’s Palace Fifths, Upper and Lower Sixth

TUESDAY 17TH OCTOBER

BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES In his strikingly titled collection of poems, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion, the Jamaican poet Kei Miller, who appears at the festival on Tuesday night, sets up a dialogue between the rational mapmaker and the free-thinking rastaman. The poems brilliantly localise a tension that runs through the human being: the conflict between the opposing desires to set up and to destroy boundaries. We want rules, we need to know where we are but at the same time we want the freedom to travel, explore and imagine. In the Canford Festival of Ideas over the last few years the themes seem to have chosen themselves and more so than ever with this one: Brexit, the Trump Presidency, the borders of India and Pakistan 70 years on from Partition, the borders of the so called Caliphate set up by Islamic state, the borders between the rich and poor so starkly visible in today’s world. The reverberations are endless.

boundaries, the Middle Eastern crisis, mental health, the borders of science and religion or simply the borders between two pianists sharing a piano. The programme tells pupils which events they are required to attend. I hope many will choose to come to more, especially those outside lesson times. Over the three nights of the festival teachers have been asked to reduce prep for all of those attending events, compulsory or voluntary. Parents and friends of Canford are very welcome to attend all talks and are encouraged to join in with questions and ideas. John James, Festival Director

Major General Ruper t Jones The Campaign to Defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria 11.50AM-1.05PM, LAYARD THEATRE ALL UPPER AND LOWER SIXTH

Major General Rupert Jones has just returned from 13 months based in Baghdad as the Deputy Commander of the US-led coalition supporting partner forces to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The period coincided with the liberation of Mosul and the fight to retake ISIS’ selfproclaimed capital in Raqqah. He will provide an insight into the nature of the campaign; the operational complexities of operating in close proximity to Syrian Regime, Russian, and Iranian forces; and the global nature of the campaign against ISIS.

Major General Rupert Jones

The line-up of speakers and themes this year is more varied than ever. Most noticeable is the way we will be invited to consider our inner psychological borders and boundaries as much as the lines and demarcations that mark and at times mar the physical world. I hope that there is something for everyone whether your interest is bees, business

The cartographer says no –

The rastaman thinks, draw me a map of what you see

what I do is science. I show

then I will draw a map of what you never see

the earth as it is, without bias.

and guess me whose map will be bigger than whose?

I never fall in love. I never get involved

Guess me whose map will tell the larger truth?

with the muddy affairs of land. Too much passion unsteadies the hand.

Kei Miller

I aim to show the full of a place in just a glance.

TUESDAY 17TH OCTOBER

Dr. Andrew Wines

Kei Miller

From Civil Rights to Culture Wars on the Road to Trump’s America

The Car tographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion

5.30PM-6.30PM, LAYARD THEATRE UPPER AND LOWER SIXTH - HISTORY, POLITICS, ENGLISH (all others very welcome)

Dr. Andrew Wines was born and brought up in North Carolina and Virginia. Having completed his PhD in Medieval History at Cambridge, he remained in the UK to write, lecture and teach. He was the Director of the International Baccalaureate programme at Christ’s Hospital, and is an active member of Democrats Abroad. His area of intellectual expertise is broad, but he is an insightful observer of American political life, and having grown up in the South, has a particular interest in issues of race. Andrew will explore the unexpected, strange and, in some ways, fascinating emergence and evolution of modern right-wing politics in America from the moment of the civil rights movement’s seemingly greatest triumph, the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, to the election of Donald Trump.

Andrew Wines

A reading and talk by the acclaimed poet and novelist

7.30PM-8.30PM, LAYARD THEATRE ALL FIFTH FORM, UPPER AND LOWER SIXTH - ENGLISH, RS, MODERN LANGUAGES, GEOGRAPHY (all others very welcome)

Kei Miller is a poet, novelist, essayist, short story writer, broadcaster and blogger. His many books include the novel Augustown (W&N, 2016) and poetry collection The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Carcanet, 2014) which won the Forward Prize (Best Poetry Collection of 2014). In 2010, the Institute of Jamaica awarded him the Silver Musgrave medal for his contributions to Literature. He has been an International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa and a visiting writer at York University in Canada, and the Department of Library Services in the British Virgin Islands, and a Vera Rubin Fellow at Yaddo. He has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Glasgow and is currently a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter.

Kei Miller

“Kei is doing something you don’t come across often: this is a beautifully voiced collection which struck us all with its boldness and wit. Many poets refer to multiple realities, different ways of observing the world. Kei doesn’t just refer, he articulates them”. Jeremy Paxman

WEDNESDAY 18TH OCTOBER

George Davis

Gavin Graham

Honey Hunting: The Borders and Boundaries of Bees

Frontier Markets

8.45AM-10.05AM, LAYARD THEATRE ALL SHELLS AND FOURTHS

11.45AM-1.05PM, LAYARD THEATRE ALL LOWER SIXTH

Gavin Graham has over 30 years’ experience in investment, managing funds in London, Hong Kong, San Francisco and most recently Toronto, where he was responsible for overseeing the Bank of Montreal ‘s asset management business for a decade. Having spent over a decade investing in rapidly growing emerging economies in Asia and Africa he was well positioned to co-write a couple of books on Frontier Markets, the next generation of emerging markets, including Frontier Markets for Dummies in 2014. He also writes for several investment magazines in Canada and appears on Canadian business TV, which sometimes leads to him being approached by viewers asking him for his share recommendations.

After leaving Canford, George studied Biology at Cardiff University. His degree allowed him to study animal behaviour in remote and exotic field stations around the world including the jungles of Borneo and remote islands of the Bahamas. On returning to Dorset, George and his brother became involved in commercial beekeeping on the Isle of Purbeck with one of only two Master Beekeepers in the UK. Now the brothers help care for up to 36 million bees that produce an average of 27 tons of honey a year. It’s a full time, sticky and often painful job.

George Davis

Frontier Markets are often described as the next generation of emerging markets, as they’re rapidly growing developing economies which haven’t yet developed to the level as China, India or Brazil. They include such large and populous countries as Vietnam, Bangladesh, Kenya and Colombia as well as smaller but fast growing states like Romania, Ghana, Morocco and Slovakia.

Gavin Graham

In his presentation, Gavin will look at what defines a frontier or boundary and a frontier market, the size and rate of growth of their populations and degree of urbanisation, how corrupt or unequal their societies are and which ones may become the success stories of the next decade.

WEDNESDAY 18TH OCTOBER

THURSDAY 19TH OCTOBER

Professor Minesh Khashu

Dr. Daniel Field

Where do I end and you begin?

The Origin of Modern Birds, and the Dinosaur Resurrection

7.30PM-8.40PM, LAYARD THEATRE UPPER AND LOWER SIXTH – BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS, RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND ANYONE INTERESTED IN LIFE, LEARNING AND IDEAS Professor Khashu would welcome parental attendance as the ideas sown will need further nurturing at home through regular light and water.

Professor Minesh Khashu aims to sow three ideas in the fertile minds of Canfordians; ideas that may help explore boundaries within us, between us and in society at large. He is looking forward to a fulfilling harvest!

Today, birds represent nearly 11,000 living species, and are ubiquitous from the poles to the open ocean. But how did this incredible diversity and disparity arise? New discoveries of exceptionally well-preserved fossils shed light on the modernisation of the avian form, and novel analyses illustrate the pivotal role of the Cretaceous-Palaeogene mass extinction in driving the radiation of living birds.

Professor Khashu MBBS, MD, FRCPCH, FRSA is a Consultant Neonatologist & Professor of Perinatal Health. He is an influential clinical leader reimagining healthcare with a focus on system wide transformation, continuous Quality Improvement and Patient Centred Care. He is well known as a leader with vision and compassion. He is a highly regarded mentor and clinical teacher. Professor Khashu’s interests beyond neonatal/perinatal health include large scale change, social movements as well as metaphysics, spirituality and poetry. He is a motivational and keynote speaker but above all describes himself as a student of life!

8.45AM-10.05AM, LAYARD THEATRE ALL UPPER SIXTH

Professor Minesh Khashu

Dr. Daniel Field is an evolutionary palaeobiologist at the University of Bath. He studies the evolution of modern birds using fossil, anatomical, and molecular data, but he has deep interests in evolutionary questions across the vertebrate tree of life. He is passionate about natural history, evolution, and science outreach, and enjoys studying and photographing Earth’s vertebrate biodiversity in the field.

Dr. Daniel Field

The key skill in life is to ‘learn to learn’.

THURSDAY 19TH OCTOBER

Annette Anthony

Jillian Haslam

Is Gerr ymandering in the U.S. out of Democratic Bounds?

Without Borders and No Boundaries

10.45AM-11.45AM LAYARD THEATRE UPPER AND LOWER SIXTH – POLITICS AND HISTORY

Annette Anthony will explain the practice known as gerrymandering, a process which takes its origins from and has evolved in US politics. It is intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries. She will explore the benefits and drawbacks of technology in this field and ask whether people should be involved in the process of defining the physical parameters of voting districts, considering the impact on the credibility of mandates and the presentational gap created by having elected officials win through gerrymandering. All these ideas have a crucial relevance, given the present crisis in American democracy.

Annette Anthony

Annette Anthony is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Columbia Law School. She served as Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee when chaired by Senator Biden before he became Vice President. In the run-up to the recent U.S. presidential election she volunteered for Hillary Clinton’s campaign in Pennsylvania. She has lived and worked in the US, France, Cote d’Ivoire and London where her two sons attended The City of London School. She is the Principal of Milmen Limited, an investment vehicle, a Governor of Canford School, and currently serves on the President’s International Advisory Council of Vassar College (New York).

11.50am-12.50pm, Layard Theatre ALL SHELLS AND FOURTHS

No one achieves success without paying a price. The real story is always what came before. When you see Jillian Haslam on stage speaking, read her books, or give to her charitable work, what you’re seeing is a testimony to resilience, to never quitting, and to passionately pursuing a better world, even for those in greatest need. But what you don’t see is how she got there. Born in Calcutta to parents with British ancestry in post-colonial India, Jillian faced a bruising childhood of extreme poverty, malnutrition and disease. She lived through the deaths of four siblings and some appalling instances of racial abuse. Her rise from the depths of despair and misery to wealth and international celebrity status is an inspirational story of vindication. Today, she travels the world speaking to businesses, universities, and anyone else who wants to be inspired to keep moving forward. In these challenging times, Jillian’s brand of relentless determination is needed more than ever. Her book Indian. English. A Memoir tells the story of her dark childhood growing up in extreme poverty and fear, yet drawing strength from parents who gave everything for their children, and from the timely generosity and kindness of strangers. It walks you through her ascension in the Indian and British corporate banking sector and how she later became the motivational speaker, author, and philanthropist you see today. A popular media guest, Jillian has been featured on Channel 5, the BBC, The Independent, The Pioneer, The Times, The Telegraph, The Metro, Gulf News and many other major media.

Jillian Haslam

THURSDAY 19TH OCTOBER

Matthew Knott

Canford Pianists

The Borderlines of Identity: Exploring Identity in Film in 21st Centur y Britain

Crossing the Line 1

5.30PM-6.30PM, LAYARD THEATRE UPPER AND LOWER SIXTH – ENGLISH, DRAMA, ART (ALL OTHERS VERY WELCOME, ESPECIALLY IF YOU LOVE FILM)

As a prelude to the concert at 7.30pm Canford pupils will play piano duets by Ravel and Debussy

Béla Hartmann and Vasilis Rakitzis, Piano

Matthew Hammett Knott is a director and screenwriter whose work has screened worldwide from London to Reykjavik, Moscow, Sydney, Berlin and Tel Aviv. His debut feature film Bonobo, starring Tessa Peake-Jones, Josie Lawrence and James Norton, premiered at Raindance Film Festival where it was nominated for Best British Feature. It received its international premiere in Reykjavik where it was nominated for the festival’s main prize, the Golden Puffin, and received a theatrical release in the UK. Matthew’s short film On This Island, starring James Norton and Michele Valley from the Oscar-nominated Dogtooth, won Best British Short at Encounters and the Golden Egg for Best Short Film in Reykjavik. It also screened on Channel 4’s Shooting Gallery. His first short film Ouroboros starred BAFTA Award Winner Anamaria Marinca from the Palme d’Orwinning 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days. Matthew has several TV and film projects in development, including a comedy series with Channel 4, and a drag musical feature which has received development funding from the BFI. He also recently directed a pilot for a documentary series starring Ruby Wax, and creates content for Alain de Botton’s School of Life YouTube channel. He studied film in Havana, Cuba and at Cambridge University, and cites his key influences as Pedro Almodovar, Charlie Kaufman, Stanley Kubrick and Muriel’s Wedding.

7PM-7.30PM, MUSIC SCHOOL ALL WHO CAN MAKE IT

Crossing the Line 2 7.30PM-8.30PM, MUSIC SCHOOL

Music for Four Hands - on one and two pianos Mozart/Busoni: Overture - The Magic Flute Schubert: Fantasy in F Minor D940 Brahms: 16 Waltzes Op.39 Piazzolla: Grand Tango

ALL FIFTH FORM BOARDERS, ALL MUSIC SCHOLARS, ALL PIANO STUDENTS. ALL A LEVEL AND GCSE MUSIC STUDENTS (AND EVERYBODY ELSE WELCOME FOR A WONDERFULLY VARIED PROGRAMME OF PIANO MUSIC)

Matthew Knott

A prize-winner of both national and international competitions, the Czech-German pianist Béla Hartmann has established a reputation for lively and individual interpretations of a wide repertoire, ranging from Rameau to Luciano Berio. Schubert, Mozart and Beethoven form the core of this extensive range, and he was both prize-winner in the International Schubert Competition, Dortmund (1997), and winner of the Beethoven Medal of the Beethoven Society of Europe (1995). In 2000, he was a semi-finalist at the Leeds International Piano Competition. In 2005 Béla Hartmann performed the complete piano sonatas and dances by Schubert at Steinway Hall, London. Other programmes include the complete first book of Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier, works by Dvorak and Smetana and contemporary composers such as Birtwhistle, Berio and Peter Eben. He has given recitals at prestigious venues in London, across the UK and in Europe, as well as in the USA, where he appeared at the Carnegie Recital Hall, New York. He has performed concertos by Brahms, Prokoviev, Dvorak, Beethoven and Mozart. Béla Hartmann is also a keen musical essayist and has published in print and online on areas such as performance practice and artistic identity.

Greek soloist and chamber musician, Vasilis Rakitzis, is a Doctor of Musical Arts from City University London and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and the Conservatories of Athens and Amsterdam. A pupil of Popi and Maria Efstratiadis, Martin Roscoe, Naum Grubert, and Caroline Palmer, he also participated in masterclasses with Paul Badura-Skoda, Boris Berman, Martino Tirimo, and Leonidas Kavakos. Vasilis regularly appears in piano recitals and chamber music concerts in Greece and England, and he has also performed in the Netherlands, Germany and Italy.

THURSDAY 19TH OCTOBER Sir Anthony Seldon A World Without Boundaries

Béla Hartmann

As a concerto soloist he has performed with the State Orchestras of Athens and Thessaloniki, the National Radio Symphony Orchestra of Greece (E.R.T.), and the Symphony Orchestra of the City of Athens. Vasilis was a prizewinner in national and international competitions, and he was awarded the prestigious ‘Eleni Tim. Mykoniou’ prize by the Academy of Athens. He currently resides in London and also teaches piano at The Royal School and the Hindhead Music Centre in Haslemere (Surrey, UK).

8.45PM – 9.45PM LONG GALLERY HERETICS SOCIETY (ALL OTHERS, INCLUDING PARENTS, VERY WELCOME)

Sir Anthony Seldon asks us to imagine a world without boundaries and suggests that the First World War showed us the way. Sir Anthony Seldon is an authority on contemporary British history and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham. He was formerly Master of Wellington College, one of Britain’s most famous independent schools. He is also author or editor of over 25 books on contemporary history, politics and education. He is regarded as one of the country’s most high profile commentators on education and appears regularly on television and radio and in the press, and writes for several national newspapers. He is a co-founder of Action for Happiness with Lord Richard Layard and Geoff Mulgan. His most recent books are Public Schools and the Great War, Beyond Happiness and Cameron At Ten. He was knighted in the Queen’s 2014 Birthday Honours list for services to education and modern political history. Vasilis Rakitzis

Sir Anthony Seldon

FRIDAY 20TH OCTOBER

Dr. Georgina Fozard

Hugh Pym and Dr. Georgina Fozard

Psychiatr y at the borderline - the challenges of working in NHS mental health

In Conversation The Borderlines and Boundaries of Health

8.45AM -10.05AM, LAYARD THEATRE ALL POTENTIAL SIXTH FORM MEDICAL STUDENTS

11.50AM-1.05PM, LAYARD THEATRE ALL UPPER AND LOWER SIXTH

Dr. Georgina Fozard is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Registrar working at the Tavistock in London. She is an Old Canfordian and attended Cambridge University and King’s College, London for her medical studies before doing her junior doctor training in London. She has an interest in psychodynamic psychotherapy, borderline personality disorder and adolescence and is also training as a child psychotherapist. She spent her third year at Cambridge studying philosophy, has maintained an interest in the social and political context of the healthcare system in the UK and was a campaigner during the junior doctor contract disputes, having an article on the subject published in The Independent. She will reflect on some of her experiences as a junior doctor on medical wards and later within psychiatric services and think about the task of finding meaning and purpose in one’s career and the importance of maintaining an enjoyable work/life balance.

An open discussion in which the audience will be encouraged to participate. Hugh Pym is the Health Editor for BBC News. He was a BBC radio journalist from 1986 to 1987, then producer of Business Daily at Channel 4, 1987–1988, correspondent with ITN, 1988–1998, and a freelance broadcaster with Sky Television,1999-2000. He was a BBC special correspondent covering Economics until 2008, when he took on the role of acting Economics Editor during the maternity leave of Stephanie Flanders. Following her return, he became the BBC’s Chief Economics Correspondent, a newly created role. When Stephanie left the BBC in late 2013 he took over again as Acting Editor. In March 2014 he was appointed to his present position and he appears regularly on BBC Television and Radio. Hugh has published four books including What Happened? and Other Questions About the Credit Crunch (co-author with Nick Kochan) and A Study Of Gordon Brown’s First Year in Office as Chancellor of the Exchequer (also co-written with Nick Kochan). His latest book is Inside the Banking Crisis (published by Bloomsbury 2014). In the 2001 General Election Pym stood as Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate in the North Wiltshire constituency.

Dr. Georgina Fozard

Hugh Pym

FRIDAY 20TH OCTOBER

BOOKS TO ACCOMPANY THE FESTIVAL

Dr. Andrew Pinsent

We will be selling the following books to accompany the festival. The Christina Lamb titles have a discount but there is no discount on Kei Miller’s books. Supplied by Gulliver’s Bookshop, Wimborne.

Escaping the Snow Queen’s Palace

Christina Lamb titles

1.45PM – 3.05PM, LAYARD THEATRE

ALL UPPER AND LOWER SIXTH, ALL FIFTHS

Dr. Andrew Pinsent argues for the value of the humanities in a technocratic age. He will use Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale, The Snow Queen, to illuminate his talk and discuss what science can and cannot do. Dr. Andrew Pinsent is Research Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at Oxford University. He was formerly a particle physicist on the DELPHI experiment at CERN, has degrees in philosophy and theology and a second doctorate in philosophy. His publications cover the fields of virtue ethics, neurotheology, science and religion, the philosophy of the person, insight, divine action, and the nature of evil. He has given public lectures in many countries, and has appeared on the BBC, EWTN, Channel 4 and a wide range of other media, especially on science and faith issues. Image credit: St Louis Review

• The Girl from Aleppo (by Nujeen Mustafa with Christina Lamb) – With 20% discount, £7.19 • Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World - With 20% discount, £8.79 • I am Malala (by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb) - With 20% discount, £6.39 (Christina Lamb, The Sunday Times’ Chief Foreign Correspondent, had to withdraw from the festival and is hoping to speak at Canford in the future.) Kei Miller titles • Augustown by Kei Miller - £8.99 • The Cartographer Tries To Map A Way To Zion by Kei Miller - £9.95 Please complete a school book chit in the library and it will be added to your school account / Common Room bill.

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Dr. Andrew Pinsent

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