About Us
Ethics, the Media and Faiths
Cambridge workshop addressed key issues at stake in media coverage of ethics and faiths
Conference Videos on Rustat Website
Launch of Media Resources section on the Rustat Website
Publication of Proceedings
The proceedings of the Future of Democracy conference have been published on the Rustat website.
Future of Democracy
Rustat Conference tackles most challenging issues facing Democracy
Rustat website launch
Rustat Conferences and Science & Human Dimension Project launches new website resource
About Us
The Rustat Conferences were founded in 2009 and are an initiative of Jesus College, Cambridge. They provide an opportunity for people from the frontlines of politics, the
civil service, financial services, the media, industry, business and education to discuss the
vital issues of the day with leading academic experts. The Rustat Conferences provide
outreach to a wider professional, academic and student audience through the publication of
reports in a variety of media. The Rustat Conferences are directed by John Cornwell and chaired by Professor Robert Mair CBE FREng FRS, Master of Jesus College, Professor of Geotechnical Engineering and Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cambridge University.
In 2009-2011 the Rustat Conferences will address the following themes: The Future of Democracy; Ethics, Faiths and the Media; Infrastructure, Energy and the Environment; Pressures on Philanthropy; Food Security; Global Warming. The inaugural Rustat Conference in May 2009 discussed the Economic Crisis.
The Science and Human Dimension Project (founded 1990) and is a public understanding of science and ethics programme based at Jesus College, Cambridge. The project is directed by John Cornwell.
In 2009-2011 the Rustat Conferences will address the following themes: The Future of Democracy; Ethics, Faiths and the Media; Infrastructure, Energy and the Environment; Pressures on Philanthropy; Food Security; Global Warming. The inaugural Rustat Conference in May 2009 discussed the Economic Crisis.
The Science and Human Dimension Project (founded 1990) and is a public understanding of science and ethics programme based at Jesus College, Cambridge. The project is directed by John Cornwell.
Director
John Cornwell
John Cornwell is an author, journalist
and Fellow Commoner of Jesus College, Cambridge where he directs the
Science and Human Dimension Project, a public understanding of science
programme, and the Rustat Conferences. He has written for many
well known publications including The Sunday Times, Vanity Fair, Nature,
Financial Times, Prospect, New Statesman, Spectator, TLS, The Tablet,
New York Times and The Observer. He is author of Hitler’s
Pope,The Secret History of Pius XII, A Thief in the Night, Power to
Harm, Earth to Earth, and a biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
He is editor of Nature’s Imagination: The Frontiers of Scientific
Vision; Consciousness and Human Identity;
and Explanations: Styles of Explanation in Science (all published
by Oxford University Press), and with Michael McGhee, of Philosophers
and God, Continuum (2009).Advisory Board
Professor Robert Mair, FRS
Master, Jesus College, CambridgeProfessor Arnoud de Meyer
Director, Judge Business School, University of CambridgeProfessor Lord Eatwell
President of Queens’ College, and Judge Business School, University of CambridgeJonathan S. Cornwell
Publisher and Director, Media SymposiaProfessor Peter Nolan
Jesus College and Judge Business School, University of CambridgeProfessor Geoffrey Harcourt
Jesus College, CambridgeDr Shailaja Fennell
Jesus College and Development Studies, University of CambridgeProfessor John Thompson
Department of Politics, University of CambridgeSir Samuel Brittan
Financial Times, and Honorary Fellow, Jesus College, CambridgeTomás Carruthers
CEO Interactive Investor InternationalProfessor Andrew Gamble
Head of Department of Politics, University of CambridgeJohn Cornwell
Director Rustat Conferences, Jesus College, Cambridge
John Cornwell, Director of the Science & Human Dimension Project and of the Rustat Conferences
Professor Robert Mair, Master of Jesus College and Rustat Conferences Chair