Zed Books

The International Affairs Forum is happy to work with Zed books to bring high-calibre speakers to Leeds.

Leeds Metropolitan University

The Forum has recently started to work with Leeds Metropolitan University, bringing students and members of staff along to International Affairs Forum events with a view to improving links between the two universities and widening the debate on international affairs.

The International Affairs Forum has teamed up with London-based independent international affairs think tank Chatham House by joining their Academic Partners Programme to give you access to their activities by offering you the opportunity to try before you join and a student membership discount if you want to become a member.

About Chatham House
Founded in 1926 in the aftermath of WW1 by delegates to the Paris Peace Conference, Chatham House provides an independent forum bringing together people and organisations from a wide range of backgrounds including academia, business, diplomacy, government, law, media, the military, NGOs and the public sector in an open and impartial environment.

Try Before You Join
Chatham House will offer students the opportunity to try before they join by making 5 places available at 3 events per month. The events on offer will include 2 events from their Members’ Events Programme and one event from their Under 35s Forum. Details will be advertised on the IA Forum website and in our newsletter.

Student Membership Discount
Normally only available to students of its academic institutional members, Chatham House is extending its student membership discount to students of the International Affairs Forum. Student members enjoy all the benefits of membership of Chatham House and a generous discount off their advertised 2007 fee. Benefits include:

Fees

• 35-50% off the 2007 advertised under 30s fee
• £65 instead of £130 for undergrad students
• £85 instead of £130 for postgrad students

Events

• Events Programme of over 100 events a year addressed by international leaders, business leaders, policy makers, diplomats, academics and Chatham House experts. Recent speakers include David Miliband, Ban Ki-Moon, James Wolfensohn and David Cameron.
• The Under 35s Forum event programme created for and run by the younger members of Chatham House for the next generation of policy- and decision-makers to discuss the international issues that matter to them and to network with their peer. Members also enjoy access to the open seminars and roundtable events hosted by our regional and thematic research programmes – Africa; Americas; Asia; Energy, Environment and Development; Europe, International Economics; International Law; International Security, Middle East; Russia Eurasia
• Annual Academic Members’ Conference for student members and students of Academic Institutional Members of Chatham House. The conference is free of charge

Publications and Website

• Complimentary copies of their monthly magazine The World Today, our bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal International Affairs and their archives. Online briefing papers, working papers and research reports accessible by region and theme published by their research programmes. Access to members’ only online content including the archive of more than 400 speech transcripts and audio recordings of Chatham House events and the archive of The World Today and International Affairs
  

For more information and a student membership application form, please contact:
Charlotte Armah carmah@chathamhouse.org.uk