Merton Society Lecture 2022 - Online

Date: Thursday 26 May 2022

Time: 18:00 BST

Venue: WebEx Webinar

Our speaker this year is Dr Gwen Burnyeat. 

Gwen Burnyeat is a Junior Research Fellow in Anthropology at Merton College, University of Oxford. She is the author of two books: "The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy amid Disinformation in Colombia" (September 2022, University of Chicago Press) and "Chocolate, Politics and Peace-building: An Ethnography of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, Colombia" (2018, Palgrave Macmillan), and producer of award-winning documentary, "Chocolate of Peace" (2016, www.chocolateofpeace.com). She has also worked as a practitioner in peacebuilding and human rights organisations in Colombia and the UK, and she is a member of transnational civil society organisation "Rodeemos el Diálogo" (ReD) which supports a negotiated solution to the Colombian armed conflict.

It will be hosted by the Warden, Professor Irene Tracey CBE, and chaired by the Merton Society President, Dame Philippa Whipple (1984).