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The Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom commemorates the College’s third Warden, Ralf Dahrendorf, one of the leading social and political thinkers of his time, and is dedicated to a subject central to his work and life. It has three main components: a Research Agenda, an annual Ralf Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture, and a group of Dahrendorf Scholars.
The Dahrendorf Programme is directed by Professor Timothy Garton Ash Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow. The Programme administrator is Judith Bruhn who can be contacted here.
1. Research Agenda
A major focus of the Research Agenda is the subject of free speech and limits to it, especially in the new conditions created by mass migration and by the internet.
The programme has now launched a multilingual global online debate on www.freespeechdebate.com.
On Thursday 3rd May 2012
Free Speech Debate, in cooperation with Article 19, organised a panel discussion with Andrew Murray, Philippe Aigrain, Amelia Andersdotter Gabrielle Guillemin and Timothy Garton Ash (chair) on "ACTA and the Internet: Freedom of Expression and Privacy"
Watch here.
On Thursday 8th March 2012
Rebecca MacKinnon (co-founder of Global Voices)
presented her new book
Consent of the Networked
Watch here.
On Wednesday 7th March 2012
Irshad Manji (author of Allah, Liberty and Love)
in conversation with Professor Timothy Garton Ash (chair)
on "How should we (not) talk about Islam?"
Watch here.
On Thursday 19 January 2012
Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) and Professor Timothy Garton Ash discussed
"Freespeechdebate.com: Global free speech in the internet age"
Watch here.
On Friday 18th January 2011
Evgeny Morozov spoke on
"Does the Internet Help People Power?"
Listen here.
A panel discussion was held on Friday 4th June 2010 in the Dahrendorf room at St. Antony's College:
Jeremy Waldron, Agnès Callamard, James Weinstein on
"Free Speech: Should Europe be more like the USA? Or vice versa?"
To read Agnès Callamard's paper, click here.
2. Dahrendorf Lecture and Colloquium
The Annual Ralf Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture is delivered by leading thinkers on a subject related to Ralf Dahrendorf’s concerns.
The 2012 Lecture was delivered on 27 April a by
Professor Ronald Dworkin, New York University
on "How Universal is Liberalism?"
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Professor Sir Adam Roberts, President of the British Academy |
The 2011 Lecture took the form of a panel discussion with
Professor A C Grayling, Birbeck College, London
Dr Usama Hasan, Leyton Mosque and Middlesex University
Mr Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph
on "Is Nothing Sacred? Free Speech and Religion"
Watch here, or listen here.
The inaugural (2010) Ralf Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture was delivered by
Lord (Adair) Turner on
“Wellbeing and Inequality in Post-Industrial Society”
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Professor Lord (Robert) Skidelsky |
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Professor Paul Collier |
Watch the lecture and discussion here. Read the full text here.
3. Dahrendorf Scholars
Each year three or four St Antony’s students are selected by a competitive process to work on the Research Agenda of the Programme and to do a piece of independent research on a subject related to the study of freedom. The scholars are selected on the basis of written applications, and interviews when necessary, by a committee consisting of the Warden (Professor Margaret MacMillan), Professor Rosemary Foot and Professor Garton Ash. Applications are invited by email at the beginning of each academic year.
The 2012 Scholars are listed below:
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Annabelle Chapman |
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Andrew Clark |
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Rutger Kaput |
The 2011 Scholars and their essays are listed below. Click on the link to read the essay.
The Dahrendorf Scholars 2010 and their essays are listed below. Click on the link to read the essay.
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