CIISS and WIN Events
We are pleased to announce that CIISS will be hosting WIN BBL from September 2022 onwards
We are finalising the WIN Brown Bag Lunch schedule and it will be shown here.
Past CIISS events
2013-2014
- Annual Lecture: Owen Bennett-Jones, 'Is Al-Qaeda winning?'
2012-2013
- Conference: 'The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Fifty Year Retrospective Assessment'
- Annual Lecture: Baroness Manningham-Buller, former Director General of the Security Service, 'Leadership under Pressure'
- Special Lecture: Barry Gilder, former Deputy Director-General of the South African National Intelligence Agency, 'Intelligence from Conflict to Democracy: South Africa as a Case Study'
- Gregynog Conference: 'The Past, Present and Future of Intelligence'
2011-2012
- Special Lecture: The Rt Hon Dr Kim Howells, former chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee, 'Security, Intelligence, Accountability and Government'
- Annual Lecture: Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield, Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History, Queen Mary, University of London, 'Tasking and Using: the Coalition, the National Security Council, the Joint Intelligence Committeeand the Rhythm of British Intelligence'
- Symposium: ‘British Intelligence, Spooks, and James Bond: A Diverse Approach to the Secret World'. Download the 2012 Symposium Programme
2010-2011
- Special Lecture: Departmental Historian at GCHQ, 'How GCHQ became an Intelligence Agency and What It Cost'
- Annual Lecture: Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, former Defence Secretary and former Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, 'Security, Policy-makers and Intelligence'
- Workshop: Methodologies of intelligence studies. Download the Workshop Programme
- Gregynog Conference: 'A Decade of Intelligence Beyond 9/11: Security, Diplomacy and Human Rights'
2009- 2010
- Special Lecture: Gordon Barrass, formerly Foreign Office and Cabinet Office, 'How Intelligence Changed the Cold War and the Lessons for Today'
- Annual Lecture: John Prados, the US National Security Archives, 'Prospects for Intelligence under the Obama Administration' (See videocast)
2008-2009
- Annual Lecture: Lord Robin Butler of Brockwell, former Cabinet Secretary, ‘Lessons from the Butler Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction'
- Workshop: Missing in Action: The Past, Present and future of military Intelligence and Operations'. (Access the Workshop Programme)
- Gregynog Conference: '100 Years of British Intelligence: From Empire to Cold War to Globalisation'
2007-2008
- Annual Lecture: Sir David Omand, former Director of GCHQ and former UK Security and Intelligence Co-ordinator, 'Can we have the grin without seeing the cat: must the effectiveness of secret agencies fade under exposure of light' (a transcript of Sir Omand's Lecture is accessible in Intelligence and National Security , see videocast)
2006-2007
- Annual lecture: Sir Michael Quinlan, former Permanent Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Defence and Director of Ditchley Park, 'Just Intelligence: Prolegomena to an Ethical Theory'
- Gregynog Conference: 'Choices for Western Intelligence: The Security Challenges of the Twenty-first Century’ (Access the Programme here)
2005-2006
- Annual lecture: Professor Keith Jeffery, Queen's University, Belfast; Official Historian of the SIS, 'Writing Official History'
- Symposium: 'Methods and Issues in the Study of Intelligence'
2004-2005
- Annual lecture: Sir Stephen Lander, former Director-General of the Security Service (MI5), 'Public Expectations of Intelligence in the United Kingdom'
- Gregynog Conference: 'Intelligence, Crises and Diplomacy: Lessons from History?'