Cambridge Society of Paris

Dinner-Talk at the Sénat
2022-03-15 19:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Paris) | Senat, 15ter rue de Vaugirard, Paris, 75006, France
TICKET SALES FOR THIS EVENT HAVE NOW CLOSED
We have an excellent opportunity to find out about the challenges relating to political opinion polls from Mr Henri Wallard, CEO France and Group Deputy CEO of Ipsos. More information about the topic of the talk will be provided shortly.
We have also been fortunate to be able to secure an appropriate venue for such a topic, the Sénat. 15ter rue de Vaugirard, Paris 6eme.

There will be a welcome aperitif from 7pm, followed by a three-course dinner starting at 7:30pm. We have selected a fish menu, but do request that you indicate any dietary requirements you have in your booking form as the Sénat’s restaurant can provide a vegetarian or vegan option as long as we inform them in advance.
Due to the security conditions at the Sénat, it is essential that you arrive between 7pm and 7:45pm – the doors will be closed at 7:45pm sharp so any late arrivals will, unfortunately not be able to join the dinner.
Tickets are €55 per person, with a discounted ticket available at €40 for those of you under 30 years of age. To book, please use the booking section below, and click on the “+” sign to the right of the appropriate ticket category
We are required to provide a nominative list of participants, including date of birth, four days before the event and no changes to that list can be made. This means that you must book your places no later than 8th March, and no refunds for cancellations will be given after that date. You will need to show a photo-ID document to be allowed into the Sénat, together with a valid pass vaccinal.

The Gemini Boat Races
2022-04-03 15:00 - 17:00 | The Bowler, 13 rue d'Artois, Paris, 75008, France
The Gemini Boat Race
will return to the Thames this year.

Come along to cheer on the Light Blues at The Bowler, 13 rue d’Artois, 75008 Paris.
We have arranged for both the Ladies’ and the Men’s races to be shown on the Bowler’s big screen so that we can meet up with our friends from the Other Place. The stakes are, of course, getting higher for Cambridge as we are on an impressive run of victories in both races.
The Ladies’ race starts at 15:23 French time, with the Men’s race one hour later, so reserve your afternoon to come along and show your support. The Bowler serves reasonably priced pub meals, so why not make a full afternoon of it and have lunch before the rowing starts.
Although there is no need to book, we will appreciate it if you let us know by email that you intend to come along so we can confirm approximate numbers to The Bowler.

Cambridge Society of Paris Annual Dinner
2022-04-13 19:30 - 23:30 | Maison de Polytechniciens, 12 rue de Poitiers, Paris, 75007, France
Bookings for this event have now closed – sorry if you have missed out

The President and Committee of the Cambridge Society of Paris are delighted to invite the Society’s members and their guests to the Annual Dinner on Wednesday 13th April 2022 at the Maison des Polytechniciens, 12 rue de Poitiers, 75007 Paris
Our Guest Speaker will be Sir Mark Walport (Clare College), FRS FRCP FRCPath FMedSci FRSE.

Sir Mark chairs the Kennedy Memorial Trust and the Imperial College Academic Health Sciences Centre. He is a Trustee of the British Museum.
For members, the price for aperitif, dinner and drinks is €70 per person. One guest can be invited at this price. For members under 30, the price is €50 with again one guest at the same price. Additional guests and non-member Alumni are also welcome, although their ticket price is €80 each.
Members will have received an invitation by email which indicates whether or not their subscription needs renewing so that they can take advantage of the Members’ ticket rates.
For any questions about this event, or your membership status, please contact Tony Banton, Hon. Secretary, on admin@camsocparis.org.
Please note that cancellations could only be refunded if they had been communicated to the Society’s Hon. Secretary by 11am on Friday 1st April 2022.

Hot Topics for Top Minds
2022-04-28 20:00 - 21:00 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The Society’s quarterly virtual meeting to debate topics considered to be of interest by the participants, proposed in advance, will be held on Thursday 28th April 2022 from 8pm to 9pm. Places will be limited to a maximum of 20 so everyone is able to have their say on each topic.
The critical thing is to have a range of interesting topics, which is down to you please. The topics can be on almost any subject – topical, scientific, philosophical, serious or amusing, it is up to you to suggest what you would like to discuss. Having thought of ideas, please include them in your booking form, or if you come up with an idea later, you can send your contributions directly to the Society’s President, Terry Quinn, on president@camsocparis.org. Terry will then compere the event.
This event will be hosted on Zoom. A meeting link will be sent to all registered attendees two or three days in advance of the event.

The invisible world of life - a talk by Pascale Cossart
2022-05-09 18:00 - 20:30 | Amphitheatre Marie Curie, 1 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, 75005, France
EVENT CANCELLED
with apologies from the Cambridge Society of Paris
PROFESSOR PASCALE COSSART
The invisible world of life (bacteria, fungi, archaea…and viruses)
Or
A trip in the country of microbes: a lot of friends, few enemies!
Monday 9th May 2022
Amphithéâtre Marie Curie
11/13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie
75005 Paris

Presentation by Solange Manche and Annual General Meeting
2022-05-25 19:00 - 21:30 | Maison de la Vie Associative et Citoyenne du VIIe, 4 rue Amélie, Paris, 75007, France
Solange Manche, a beneficiary of the Trevor Brown Bursary in 2020 to support her change year at the Ecole Normale Supérieur, will give a presentation on “Finance’s Phineas Gage: Thinking Financialization and Subject Formation with Contemporary French Thought”.
In this talk, Solange will present how the thought of Stiegler, Malabou, and Lordon can shed a new light upon the way we think about the relation between individuation and financialization.
After the 2007-2008 financial crash, it became clear that finance is not limited to the screens of the stock exchange. Finance has now become so entangled with our daily existence that theoretical and philosophical considerations of financialization have declared the emergence of a new subject, starting with Michel Foucault’s entrepreneur of the self.
Since then, a number of subjects have been added to the list: Randy Martin’s financialized self, Paul Langley’s Foucauldian uncertain subject, Maurizio Lazzarato’s indebted man, Rob Aitken’s bodies that are turned into objects for financial income, Michel Feher’s rated agents, and most recently Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou’s homo speculans.
Whereas these accounts remain primarily Foucauldian and Deleuzian, Solange will argue that the new milieu that finance gives rise to is also the background from which Stiegler’s, Malabou’s, and Lordon’s ontologies have developed, thereby offering theoretical tools that are more appropriate to our times.

Solange Manche is a PhD candidate in French, working on the thought of Bernard Stiegler, Catherine Malabou, and Frédéric Lordon. She in particular explores how their ontologies inform their critique of contemporary capitalism and brings their perspective to financialization studies.
The talk will be preceded at 7pm by the Society’s Annual General Meeting. The “formal” notice of meeting and other papers relating to the AGM will be sent to members in early May.
Please register your attendance at the talk and the AGM using the booking section below – just click on the “+” button to the right of the quantity field in the tickets box and then click on “get tickets” and proceed to checkout.
Guests are welcome, although of course they will not be able to vote at the AGM so they may prefer to arrive at 8pm just for the talk.
Tickets are free and light refreshments will be served.

Commemoration and Thanksgiving For Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
2022-09-17 16:00 - 17:30 | St George’s Anglican Church, 7 rue Auguste Vacquerie, Paris, 75116, France
The Rev’d Mark Osborne, Rector of St George’s, Paris

Has the pleasure of inviting the members of the Cambridge Society of Paris to a service of Choral Evensong
of Commemoration and Thanksgiving For Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

In the presence of
the Ambassador of the United Kingdom
Her Excellency Dame Menna Rawlings

Saturday 17th September 2022
16h00
St George’s Anglican Church,
7 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75116 Paris

Followed by a reception

RSVP: office@stgeorgesparis.org

Freshers' Welcome drinks
2022-09-24 14:00 - 17:00 | Fondation Goodplanet, 1, Carrefour de Longchamp, Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 75116
The Cambridge Society of Paris is again taking part in the University’s world-wide program of events for those students who have recently been successful in gaining a place at Cambridge, whether as an Undergraduate or a Graduate.
The aim is to give them an opportunity to meet other new students coming from France and to chat to Society members about their experience in Cambridge so that the Freshers are better prepared on arrival in their College at the start of their first term.
We will be returning to the Fondation Goodplanet, which is an outdoor venue and so we hope will suitable and safe even if the level of Covid infections creeps up again. The venue is in the Bois de Boulogne and for those without a car, there are three buses running about every 10-15 minutes:

line 43, which has a stop at Pont de Neuilly (metro line 1) and goes to Longchamp-Goodplanet
line 241, which leaves from Porte d’Auteuil (metro line 10) and goes to Les Moulins-Camping
line 244, which stops at Porte Maillot (metro line 1 or RER line C) and goes to Longchamp-Goodplanet

Entry is free and attendees are welcome to wander around the Fondation before or after the event.
There is no charge for the event. Freshers will be offered two complementary drinks, while Society members can purchase their refreshments at the Clairière’s bar.

INVITATION FROM THE ENGLISH SPEAKING UNION
2022-11-14 18:30 - 22:00 | Senat, 15ter rue de Vaugirard, Paris, 75006, France
Dear Friends,
We are delighted to confirm our dinner-debate with:
Professor Vernon Bogdanor
It is a great privilege to welcome the outstanding Professor of Government at King’s College London, formerly Professor of Government at Oxford University. After publishing books which include Beyond Brexit: Towards a British Constitution, in 2019, and Britain and Europe in a Troubled World, in 2020, Vernon has written Politics and Power before the First World War: The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain(2022). He will talk about:

How to choose a political Leader in the United Kingdom
A timely subject after the election of the Leader of the Conservative party following the resignation of Boris Johnson. Liz Truss was elected by a short majority of members against her opponent Rishi Sunak who was the favorite candidate of the Conservative Members of Parliament in the Commons.
Once again Senator Joëlle GARRIAUD-MAYLAM has kindly accepted to host the ESU dinner at the Restaurant du Sénat:
Palais du Luxembourg
15 ter rue de Vaugirard, 75006 Paris
Monday 14 November 2022 at 7 pm
We will meet at 6.30 pm, with our ID papers.
We are looking forward to meeting you again and hope you will come with friends. Answers requested before 7 November 2022, as we are required to send the list of participants to the Sénat.
Luce Loussouarn President of the ESU Paris branch
Participation 60 € per person
Send the tag with your cheque payable to ESU Paris before November 7 to:
Luce LOUSSOUARN 8 Villa de Ségur 75007 Paris

Monthly Entrepreneur Mixer
2022-11-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Frog & British Library, 114 Avenue de France, Paris, 75013, France
CAMentrepreneurs in Paris
Get involved!

Dear Entrepreneurs,
Following the launch of CAMentrepreneurs in Paris on Tuesday 18th October at La Felicita, we are delighted to announce that we will be henceforth running a monthly entrepreneur mixer. The launch was a brilliant success, drawing together both aspiring entrepreneurs as well as those deeply embedded within the ecosystem already. There was an even split of Cambridge alumni and guests (with some in attendance from the other place).
Our November CAMentrepreneurs Paris Pub Mixer will take place on Monday 21st November at the Frog & British Library, 114 Avenue de France, 75013 Paris.
Please scan the QR code on the poster which will take you directly to Eventbrite – or click on this link – where you can sign up (spaces are limited). Any questions, just ping me! –
Olivia A. Halsall
CAMentrepreneurs
Paris Chapter Lead

Casual Debate while Dining in Paris
2022-11-23 19:00 - 22:00 | Carmine Café, 73 Avenue Suffren, Paris, 75007, France
On Wednesday 23rd of November we invite you to join our first “Casual debate while dining in Paris” event. For 35€ you can enjoy a lovely two-course dinner + wine in the company of fellow Cambridge Alumni from 7pm onwards at the Carmine Café. A casual debate will be organised with details provided closer to the date, it will be designed for fun and open to all!
3 options will be proposed for the main dish:

Filet de bar, tian de legumes et purée maison
Bavette à l’échalotte, frites maison
Risotto de légumes à la crème de cèpe (vegetarian)

2 options for dessert:

Crème brûlée vanille de Madagascar
Mi-cuit chocolat et glace vanille

To register and select your menu, go to the ticket section below.
Casual debate organisation
At the start of the evening, following a quick “ice breaker”, we will vote and select one of the following topics:

Democracy is dead
Decarbonisation should be top priority for all companies and all people
One global cryptocurrency should replace all traditional currencies

After 5-10min to mingle and reflect on the selected topic all those with arguments in favour of the statement will be invited to share their thoughts. Then the main dish will be served and all those with arguments against the selected statement will be invited to share their thoughts just prior to deserts being served. At the end of the evening, we will wrap up and elect the winning side.
Please note that the last registration for this event will be on November 16th as final numbers have to be communicated to the restaurant the following day.

The Wells Consort - Christmas Music in the Heart of Paris
2022-12-11 16:00 - 17:30 | Eglise St-Denys-du-St-Sacrement, 68bis rue de Turenne, Paris, 75003, France
The Wells Consort emerged from the English Cathedral Choir of Paris, with its unique repertoire of music sung in England’s prestigious cathedrals and colleges. They’ll be singing carols and other festive music for the Christmas season in the heart of the trendy Marais quarter, conducted by Christopher Wells. Christopher Wells is a member of the Cambridge Society of Paris and went to Magdalene.
Church of St Denys du St Sacrement, 68bis rue de Turenne, 75003 PARIS (metro St Paul or St Sebastien-Froissart).
Free entry, retiring collection on behalf of “Esperanza Joie des Enfants”.

Carols at the Travellers
2022-12-12 18:30 - 20:00 | The Travellers Club, 25 avenue des Champs-Elysées, Paris, 75008, France
This event is fully subscribed – a waiting list is in place and you can add your name using the ticket section below – please apply for only one waiting list place even if you would like to bring a guest. The attendee details will ask for the number of tickets wanted (maximum 2) and the name of your guest if you are inviting one.
After a rather prolongued Covid gap, we are pleased to invite you back to our:
Annual Carol Singing at
“The Travellers”
25, avenue des Champs-Elysées, Paris 8’eme
From 6:30 PM on Monday, 12th December, 2022
Vin chaud and mince pies will be served prior to the singing
Numbers are limited to 100 in total. Places will be allocated on a “first come, first served” basis.
Please add your name to the waiting list by booking through the “Tickets” section below. Only select one ticket – guest information, if applicable, will be requested within the attendee information. You will be contacted when places become available. Cost per person is €20.
NB: Please note that the Travellers Club
requires gentlemen to wear jackets and ties

DINNER FOR THE NEW YEAR WITH MILES YOUNG, WARDEN OF NEW COLLEGE
2023-01-21 19:30 - 23:00 | L’Alsace, 39 avenue des Champs-Elysées, Paris, 75008, France
“Through a spoon darkly”
Thoughts for a New Year from Warden Miles Young

Miles Young read history at New College from 1973 to 1976.
After a business career in advertising and marketing , spent largely in China and North America with Ogilvy and Mather, Miles returned to Oxford in 2016 as Warden of New College.
He has served the University chairing the Conference of Colleges as well as contributing to policy on Disability, Development and Donations reviews.
Outside the College he is involved in Enlightenment Studies as Chair of the Voltaire Foundation https://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/, as well as music (Oxford Bach Soloists) and education (English-Speaking Union), and he retains a strong interest in the issues facing developing countries especially in Asia.
An accomplished speaker, he will be our guarantee to a thought-provoking New Year as we enjoy a cocktail and 3-course dinner at the Alsace Brasserie.
Tickets are are €65 per person and are available through the OUSP website.
The venue is L’Alsace, 39 Avenue des Champs-Elysées, 75008 Paris and you will be welcomed at 7h30pm.

UK Alumni Network in Paris - Monthly Drinks
2023-01-26 19:00 - 20:30, 2023-05-25 19:00 - 20:30 | The Bombardier, 2 Place du Panthéon, Paris, 75005, France
The UK Alumni Network in Paris will meet for the give you the opportunity to meet other UK and Irish graduates in Paris. These gatherings take place on the fourth Thursday each month, during the Pub’s “Happy Hour” from 7pm to 8:30pm.
Please find below the dates and locations for the UKAN pub events in Paris which is an opportunity to meet fellow alumni in addition to other UK and Irish graduates in Paris on the fourth Thursday each month in a casual and friendly environment. Pop in for a quick afterwork drink or for long leisurely evening.
26th January – Bombadier
23rd February – Galway
23rd March – Bombadier
27th April – Galway
25th May – Bombadier

If you plan to come, please let us know if possible the numbers per university as we should give the pub staff a rough idea of numbers.
Addresses:
Bombardier (2 Pl. du Panthéon, 75005 Paris)
Hope to see you there!

UK Alumni Network in Paris - Monthly Drinks
2023-02-23 19:00 - 20:30, 2023-04-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Galway Irish Pub, 13 quai des Grands Augustins, Paris, 75006, France
The UK Alumni Network in Paris will meet for the give you the opportunity to meet other UK and Irish graduates in Paris. These gatherings take place on the fourth Thursday each month, during the Pub’s “Happy Hour” from 7pm to 8:30pm.
Please find below the dates and locations for the UKAN pub events in Paris which is an opportunity to meet fellow alumni in addition to other UK and Irish graduates in Paris on the fourth Thursday each month in a casual and friendly environment. Pop in for a quick afterwork drink or for long leisurely evening.
26th January – Bombadier
23rd February – Galway
23rd March – Bombadier
27th April – Galway
25th May – Bombadier

If you plan to come, please let us know if possible the numbers per university as we should give the pub staff a rough idea of numbers.
Addresses:
The Galway top floor (13 Quai des Grands Augustins, 75006 Paris)

Hope to see you there!

A dinner talk 23 February 2023 7.30 PM at the BRASSERIE BOFINGER
2023-02-23 19:30 - 23:00 | BRASSERIE BOFINGER, 5-7 Rue de la Bastille, Paris, 75004, France
A dinner talk 23 February 2023 7.30 PM at the BRASSERIE BOFINGER

We are delighted that Professor Robert Lethbridge will be our speaker at a dinner on Thursday 23 February 2023 for 7.30 PM at the BRASSERIE BOFINGER

Coupe de Cremant at 19h00, followed by a seated 3-course set dinner : cost 60 €
– vegetarian options will be available on request
The BRASSERIE BOFINGER is a ‘gem’ located in the Bastille area (Metro lines 1 , 5 and 8)
Further information : mail to events@camsocparis.org
‘Mastering Oxbridge‘, Professor Robert Lethbridge, former Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge will share with us the role of the Master in changing times giving us all an intimate view of the position.
A stimulating topic exploring what that role entails in modern Cambridge and how it is changing with the current increase of non-academic Heads of House. Most former students would be hard-pressed to define that role even during their own College careers!

Professor Lethbridge was Master of Fitzwilliam from 2005 – 2013, and Provost of the Gates Cambridge Trust from 2010 – 2013.
Professor Lethbridge was educated at the University of Kent at Canterbury (B.A., 1969), McMaster University (M.A., 1970) and St John’s College, Cambridge (Ph.D., 1975). His first academic post was as Leathersellers’ Teaching Fellow in French at Fitzwilliam College. He was Senior Tutor for the decade 1982-92. In 1994, he was appointed to the Chair of French Language and Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he was successively Head of Department, Dean of the Graduate School and Vice-Principal. He has been a Life Fellow of Fitzwilliam since 1994. Before his return to the College, he was Director of the British Institute in Paris, now renamed as the University of London Institute in Paris. He has held Visiting Professorships at the University of California at Santa Barbara and at the University of Melbourne.
He is Emeritus Professor of French Language and Literature in the University of London. His current research and postgraduate teaching is now in association with Cambridge’s Department of French, where he was a University Lecturer until 1994 and is now Honorary Professor. His work is focused on late nineteenth-century France and, in particular, the relationship between literature and the visual arts in that period. He was made Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 2013 for services to French culture and scholarship. He has written several books.

UK Alumni Network in Paris - Monthly Drinks
2023-03-23 19:00 - 20:30 | The Bombardier, 2 Place du Panthéon, Paris, 75005, France
The UK Alumni Network in Paris will meet for the give you the opportunity to meet other UK and Irish graduates in Paris. These gatherings take place on the fourth Thursday each month, during the Pub’s “Happy Hour” from 7pm to 8:30pm.
Please find below the dates and locations for the UKAN pub events in Paris which is an opportunity to meet fellow alumni in addition to other UK and Irish graduates in Paris on the fourth Thursday each month in a casual and friendly environment. Pop in for a quick afterwork drink or for long leisurely evening.
26th January – Bombadier
23rd February – Galway
23rd March – Bombadier
27th April – Galway
25th May – Bombadier

If you plan to come, please let us know if possible the numbers per university as we should give the pub staff a rough idea of numbers.
Addresses:
The Galway top floor (13 Quai des Grands Augustins, 75006 Paris) or Bombardier (2 Pl. du Panthéon, 75005 Paris)
Please read the address in detail.
Hope to see you there!

Grand Fete to celebrate the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III
2023-05-06 11:00 - 19:00 | Standard Athletic Club, Route Forestière, Meudon-la-Forêt, 92360, France
To celebrate the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III on Saturday 6 May, the Standard Athletic Club, in conjunction with the British Community Committee of France, will be holding a GRANDE FETE with lots of fun and activities for members and non-members and all their families. Activites start at 11am and will continue until 7pm. As the Cambridge Society of Paris is a member of the BCC, all members of our Society and their families are invited to take part at the member rate.
The “Entente package” is €45 per person (€17.50 for the under 14s) for members of the SAC or any member association of the BCC (which includes the Cambridge Society of Paris). This includes a three course lunch provided by the Entente British Brasserie as well as access to all the games and other fun events.
You can also just come along for the activites, with the “Entrance only” ticket at €10 per person (€4 for U14s) for SAC and BCC association members.
PLEASE NOTE: these prices apply for bookings made up to 29th April after which a higher price will be charged.
Please get your tickets using this HelloAsso link: https://www.helloasso.com/associations/standard-athletic-club/evenements/grande-fete-coronation
The event takes place at the SAC’s sports ground in Meudon, Route Forestière Du Pavé De Meudon, 92360 Meudon-La-Forêt.

Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla
2023-05-22 18:00 - 21:00 | Salons Hoche, 9 Avenue Hoche, Paris, 75008, France
Join the British in France to celebrate the coronation of their majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla on the terrasses of Les Salons Hoche on 22 May 2023 from 6pm to 9pm.
Her Excellency Dame Menna Rawlings, the UK’s Ambassador to France, will attend and give a short speech.
A British Community Committee of France event – all members of the Cambridge Society of France and their guests are welcome.
Tickets €45 (including Champagne, wine, soft drinks and canapés)
Please pay by 11th May 2023 using the following link:
Purchase your tickets
Les Salons Hoche, 9 avenue Hoche, 75008 Paris

Why innovation matters, and why it is so hard to do?
2023-06-13 19:00 - 20:00 | Virtual GoogleMeet event, France
Tuesday 13th June at 7pm (CET – 6pm BST)
On GoogleMeet
The Cambridge Society of Paris invites you to join us for a virtual lecture
Innovation improves our lives. For all organisations – large and small, public and private – innovation drives growth and productivity. For nations, innovation is a key driver of improvements to quality of life, and underpins vibrant and resilient economies and communities. Innovation is clearly something really important for all of us. However, it is incredibly hard to do well, and getting it wrong can have huge consequences. This talk will explore some of the issues on why innovation is so hard to get right, and what organisations and nations can do to improve the chances of success.
The lecture will take place on Tuesday 13th June from 7pm to 8pm and will be hosted on GoogleMeet. There is no charge for this event. A meeting link will be sent to all registered attendees two or three days in advance of the event. You can of course participate from wherever you may be in the World!
Our Speaker – Professor Tim Minshall – Dr John C Taylor Professor of Innovation & Head of the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM)

Tim is the inaugural Dr John C Taylor Professor of Innovation at the University of Cambridge, Head of the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), Head of the IfM’s Centre for Technology Management (CTM), and a Fellow of Churchill College. His research, teaching and engagement activities are focused on the links between manufacturing, innovation, and skills.
Tim is a member of the board of directors for IfM Engage Ltd, St John’s Innovation Centre Ltd, and the Møller Institute Ltd.
He is a recipient of a University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence and a Royal Academy of Engineering/ExxonMobil Excellence in Teaching Award.
He is Chair of Trustees of the Foundation for Young People’s Mental Health (YPMH) (https://www.ypmh.org/).

Oxford and Cambridge Garden Party
2023-07-25 18:30 - 21:00 | British Ambassador’s Residence in Paris, 39 rue du Faubourg St-Honoré, Paris, 75008, France
All tickets have now been sold for this event

Hosted by the British Ambassador to France, Dame Menna Rawlings, the Cambridge Society of Paris and the Oxford University Society in Paris
Open to: Alumni and guests Postgraduate students Undergraduates
Location: The British Ambassador’s Residence
We are pleased to announce that Wesley Kerr OBE, former BBC Royal Correspondent, will be our guest for the 2023 Garden Party. The event will again be held at the British Ambassador’s Residence in Paris.

Wesley Kerr OBE is a freelance broadcaster, and writer and also a historian and horticulturist. He is the longest serving Board Member and Trustee of London’s magnificent Royal Parks, and a Council Member of the Royal Horticultural Society and Vice President of the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association. For 7 years he chaired the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Committee for London, restoring and regenerating historic places and culture. He received his OBE personally from Queen Elizabeth II in 2015 for services to heritage.
Wesley was born in Perivale, Middlesex, although conceived In Jamaica, and had wonderful English foster parents. He was educated in state schools and then aged 12 won a Hampshire County Bursary to Winchester College and aged 17 was awarded an Open Scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge where he read history from 1976- 79. He joined the BBC that year as its first black graduate production trainee, becoming producer, reporter, correspondent, presenter on a huge variety of programmes. Over a long career he has reported from 40 countries. Throughout the turbulent 1990s he was a Court and then Royal Correspondent at BBC News. Among the stories he was present at or reported live from; The Heysel stadium disaster, the Windsor Castle Fire, the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bomb, The Queen’s return to the Palace after Diana’s death.
Wesley is a frequent contributor to Royal and history documentaries and discussions on Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV1, BBC, Sky and internationally from Canada to Germany and Australia.
He has written for The Telegraph, Times, Guardian, and numerous magazines including recent royal features for The Tatler. He has recently curated a number of exhibitions of work by the British-Jamaican artist Rudi Patterson.
He covered the Queen’s funeral and the King’s Coronation live for ITV and CBS News. The Royal Parks were central to both events. He has been closely involved in huge restoration projects at Brompton Cemetery, Greenwich Park and a new 2 acre garden being created in The Regent’s Park celebrating the late Queen.
He says Cambridge gave him confidence, knowledge, synthesis and many lifelong friends.
Booking information:
If you would like to attend this event, please complete the booking form using the link below.
Price:
€69 per person for members of either the Cambridge or Oxford Societies – one guest can also be invited at this same price;
additional guests are €80 per person as are tickets purchase by non-member alumni;
€49 per person for members of either society under 30 years of age with the ticket for one guest also available at this same price.
Capacity: 150
Location:
The British Ambassador’s Residence
39 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, France
Security at the Ambassador’s Residence is strict.
Only those members and guests appearing on the security list will be admitted and photographic proof of identity is required.
This also means that bookings will close on Tuesday 18th July, and we can only accept cancellations if they are received no later than that date. No refunds will be given for any cancellation communicated to us in the 7 days preceding the event.
Accessibility:
Metro Concorde or Madeleine
Parking Concorde

Freshers Welcome Drinks
2023-09-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Frog Revolution, 9 rue de Bastille, Paris, 75004, France
Each year, CamSoc takes part in the University’s world-wide program of events for those students who have recently been successful in gaining a place at Cambridge, whether as an Undergraduate or a Graduate.
The aim is to give them an opportunity to meet other new students coming from France and to chat to our members about their experience in Cambridge so they are better prepared on arrival in their College at the end of the month.
We have booked the upstairs room of the Frog Revolution, 9 rue de la Bastille (metro Bastille) with drinks and snacks provided. There will be a charge of €20 per person for members, although admission is free for all current students of the University whether members of CamSoc or not and, of course, the Freshers.
Booking closes on Monday 11th September at 11:30am.

Cambridge Society of Paris Annual Dinner
2023-10-11 19:30 - 23:30 | Maison de Polytechniciens, 12 rue de Poitiers, Paris, 75007, France
Booking has now closed
If you would like to be put on the waiting list in the event of late cancellations, please send an email to Tony Banton treasurer@camsocparis.org
You are invited to the
Cambridge Society of Paris Annual Dinner
with Tim, Lord Clement-Jones, CBE
19h30 to 23h30
Wednesday 11th October 2023

La Maison des Polytechniciens, 12 Rue de Poitiers, 75007 Paris
l’Hôtel de Poulpry

The mansion was built in 1703. The house has accommodated several political and artistic organizations over the centuries. Successive occupants have left their mark with the installation of elegant fireplaces and balconies. The name “Poulpry” comes from one of its owners in the late eighteenth century.
The house is now the base of the Association des Amis des Polytechniciens and is also made available to other groups for their events.
Our Guest Speaker

Tim, Lord Clement-Jones (Trinity College) was born in Neath in South Wales. He was educated at Haileybury and then went on to study economics and then law at Trinity College, Cambridge, the fourth generation of his family to do so.
He was chair of the Liberal Party from 1986-88 and made CBE for political services in 1988 and a life peer in 1998.
He started his legal career as a trainee in Coward Chance, the magic circle city law firm as it then was. He became Group Company Secretary and Legal Adviser of Kingfisher Plc from 1986-95, where he coordinated Kingfisher’s contribution to the Shopping Hours Reform Campaign which led to the Sunday Trading Act 1993. Before Kingfisher, he held senior legal positions at Grand Metropolitan, now Diageo plc and London Weekend Television, now part of ITV plc.
He is the Liberal Democrat House of Lords spokesperson for Science, Innovation and Technology and previous positions held including Lords spokesperson for Digital and for the Creative Industries. He is the Former Chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence which reported in 2018 with “AI in the UK: Ready Willing and Able?” and its follow-up report in 2020 “AI in the UK: No Room for Complacency“. In 2016, he co-founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence which he co-chairs.
From 2023, he has been a member of the Industry and Regulators Committee and the initiator of and subsequent member of the Special Inquiry Select Committee into AI in Weapons Systems.
He is a former member of the Joint Select Committee on the Draft Online Safety Bill (2021-22) and Vice Chair for a number of All-Party Parliamentary Groups – including Data Poverty; Data Analytics; Digital Skills; and Digital Regulation and Responsibility.
He is a founding member of the OECD Global Parliamentary Group on AI and a former Consultant to the Council of Europe’s Ad-hoc Committee on AI.
He is Chair of the Board of Trust Alliance Group (formerly Ombudsman Services), the not-for-profit, independent ombudsman service that provides dispute resolution for the communications, energy, and parking industries. He is a Consultant on AI Policy and Regulation with global law firm, DLA Piper where former positions held include London Managing Partner (2011-16), and Co-Chair of Global Government Relations.
He is Chair of the governing council of Queen Mary University of London. He was Chair of Council of the School of Pharmacy, University of London (2008-12) before its merger with University College London (“UCL”) whereupon he became an external member of UCL’s Council and Chair of the Audit Committee (2012-17).
He is President of Ambitious about Autism (formerly Treehouse) an autism education skills and employment charity and school for children with autism and other communication disorders.
Ticket Application
The Cambridge Society of Paris is delighted to invite you and your guests to one of the landmark events of the CamSoc year.
Members of the Cambridge Societies of Paris, Belgium or Luxembourg may apply for one or two members’ tickets. The price for aperitif, dinner and drinks is €75 per person. Additional guests are also welcome, although their ticket price is €85 each.
For our younger members, under 30 years of age, tickets are €55 per person, again with one guest being able to be invited at the same price, irrespective of the age of the guest. Additional guests are €85 each.
Alumni of Cambridge University who are not members of the Paris, Belgian or Luxembourg Societies may also join us, with tickets available at €85 per person.
To apply for tickets:
If you have any questions about the Dinner, please contact Tony Banton, Treasurer..
Dress: Black tie (or lounge suits if preferred).
Please note that refunds will only be possible for cancellations received by Friday 29th September 2023

An invitation from the Oxford Society
2023-10-14 19:00 - 22:00 | Flora Danica, 116 Champs-Elysées, Paris, 75008, France
The Oxford University Society in Paris Invites our members to a
Dinner and talk – Norman Ingram Saturday 14th October
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Credit : Imperial War Museum
OUSP is delighted to welcome Norman Ingram, Professor of History at Concordia University (Montréal) ; Mort pour rien? The Great War and French Pacifism will draw on his recent research into the changing attitudes of the peace movement during the war, particularly in France.
Professor Ingram is the recognised authority on the birth of modern Peace Movements and the Ligue des Droits de l’Homme in reaction to ‘the War to end all Wars’.
He is a visiting fellow at Magdalen (Oxford) and his books are published by Oxford University Press.
Our venue will be Flora Danica, 116 Champs-Elysées 75008 Paris for a 3-course meal with wine, guests welcome
Cost will be 65 € (reduced price for U30 members of 45 €)
To register, go to the OUSP website https://www.oxfordinparis.com/event-5416197
For additional information: mailto:president@oxfordinparis.com

Multi university alumina Networking Drinks invitation
2023-11-15 19:00 - 22:00 | Frog Revolution, 9 rue de Bastille, Paris, 75004, France
CAMSOC is pleased to announce a multi university alumina Networking Drinks invitation . Members are welcome to register for the event. The venue is familiar.
November 15, 7pm at the Frog Revolution Bastille, Paris : Aluminary, a new international alumni association for professionals, invites Cambridge alumni to join their counterparts in American Ivy-league and other elite European universities and business schools to what it believes is the first cross-school alumni professional networking event in Paris!
?Venue is at Bastille, 1-minute away form the metro station. The 1st floor is privatized for this event with a dedicated bar staff. You can find more details and register on https://lu.ma/Aluminary_Networking_Paris.
The organizers (www.aluminary.net) say come join us for an evening of fun, connections and re-connections with fellow alumni from top schools. Don’t miss out on this special evening to expand your network and mingle with a diverse crowd of professionals in Paris.

Casual Wine Sampling at Montmartre
2023-11-20 20:00 - 22:00 | Les Piqueurs, 6 rue Tardieu, Paris, 75018, France
Event sold out
On Monday, 20th November, all members of the Society are cordially invited to an evening at Les Piqueurs, 6 Rue Tardieu, in Montmartre (metro Anvers, Line 2, or Château Rouge, Line 4). From 8 p.m. on, different wines – accompanied by a small selection of cheese and meats – will be served. Do not miss the chance to sample a selection of wines in a casual setting with fellow Society members in the shadow of Sacré Cœur.
Tickets are €20 per person. Event sold out.

We are pleased to circulate an Invitation from our friends at the ESU
2023-12-08 10:30 - 12:00 | Hôtel National des Invalides, 129 rue de Grenelle, Paris, Paris, 75007, France
www.esuparis.fr
Dear Friends,
We are pleased to announce that the visit to the Plans reliefs which had been postponed
will take place on
Friday 8 December 2023 at 10.30 am
We will have a private guided visit with the Curator of the Musee of the
PLANS RELIEFS – the FORTS of the ALPS
Hôtel National des Invalides
129 rue de Grenelle 75007 Paris
The exhibition reflects on more than 350 years of the history of the fortified cities which
were to protect the kingdom of France against unpredictable invasions from Italy or other
European countries. The frontier has been a complex notion since Louis XIV and is part of
the national identity.
We will see Mont Dauphin which is in France and was built by Vauban in 1693 and
Fenestrelle built in 1728 by the King of Sardinia, the longest wall in Europe vying with the
Great Wall of China.
The number of visitors is limited so please could you send your reply straight away to
Luce Loussouarn : ljloussouarn@free.fr
We will meet in the courtyard at 10.15 am.
Looking forward to seeing you again. Best wishes,
Luce Loussouarn
President ESU Paris
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Participation 10€ per person to be paid:
? by cheque made out to the order of the English Speaking Union Paris and sent to Luce
Loussouarn
or
? by bank transfer to ESU Paris’s bank account at the Credit Industriel et Commercial
IBAN: [REDACTED] BIC: CMCIFRPP
Please record “ESU visit Plans reliefs” in the reference box with your surname.
This form must be sent to: Luce Loussouarn, 8 Villa de Ségur, 75007 Paris Email:ljloussouarn@free.fr
