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Chardine Taylor-Stone is an award-winning cultural producer and feminist activist. She is the founder of Black Girls Picnic a global movement in collective self care for Black women and girls and Stop Rainbow Racism. In 2015 she was featured in The Voice newspaper as one of the 'Women Who Rocked the World', Diva Magazine’s LGBT Power List 2016 and Buzzfeed’s ‘The Most Inspiring British LGBT People Of 2016‘ and the 'Pride Power List 2017'. In 2017 she was awarded the British LGBTQ award for Contribution to LGBTQ life.

French TV documentary projection 'Brexit: les coulisses du divorce' (70 minutes) by Eric Albert, journalist for Le Monde and Thomas Johnson, produced by Galaxie with the participation of France Televisions.

The projection will be followed by a debate in English with the two journalists about the media coverage of Brexit, chaired by Dr. Alexandra Borchardt from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford.

Alexander will speak about the changing international politics of cyber; from the renewed UN negotiations on norms that begin in September 2019 to the growing work on deterrence, attribution and sanctions responding to the hostile use of cyber capabilities by states.

Dr Alexander Evans OBE is Cyber Director at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He was previously Britain’s Deputy High Commissioner to India (2015-2018) and Britain’s Acting High Commissioner to India (November 2015 to March 2016).

Paul D. Williams is Associate Professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. Between 2011 and 2019, he was also a Non-Resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute in New York where he managed the “Providing for Peacekeeping Project.” He has also been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars and a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. His research focuses on the politics of contemporary peace operations and conflict trends in Africa.

Mezna Qato is junior research fellow in history at King's College, Cambridge. She is completing a book on the history of education for Palestinians in the aftermath of the 1948 war. Her work revolves around three themes: social histories of Palestinian and Arab exile, the politics and practice of archives, and comparative settler colonialism. Her next project is a history of Palestinians in Haiti.