12th – 14th October 2017 Currently in their fifth edition, the symposiums at the Garrison Library focus on issues that impact on Gibraltar and other like territories within a European and global framework. The topic this year has certainly been driven by the 2017 commemoration of the 50th anniversary since Gibraltar’s 1967 sovereignty referendum and […]

13th – 14th October 2016 Currently in our fourth year, the Symposiums at the Garrison Library focus on issues that impact on Gibraltar and other like territories within a European and global framework. The themes under discussion are broad although pertinent, and include areas such as self-determination; cultural and national identity; borders; colonialism and post-colonialism […]

22nd – 23rd October 2015 This year’s symposium at the Garrison Library sets out to engage with questions that relate to the Second World War and the impact this was to have on the redistribution of power and on subsequent global policies pertaining to human rights, self determination and decolonisation.  These are topical issues given […]

16th – 17th October 2014 The aim of this symposium is to explore questions of self-determination, devolution and independence, not necessarily as a continuum but to interrogate these definitions as they find expression in this 21st century. Despite it being a core legal principle of the international order, the actual politics of self-determination can nonetheless be a […]

Thursday 10th October – Friday 11th October 2013 Tercentenary of the Treaty of Utrecht The Tercentenary of the Treaty of Utrecht in March and April this year will certainly strike a chord given the ever present reality of Article X as it relates to the status of Gibraltar not only as a British protected territory […]