Events archive

The Leszek Kołakowski Lecture: Is Poland still a liberal democracy? Constitutional breakdown and potential revival

Wojciech Sadurski (University of Sydney and University of Warsaw)
22 November 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
The 2019 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture: Is Poland still a liberal democracy? Constitutional breakdown and potential revival The speed and depth of anti-democratic and illiberal transformations in Poland... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series

Central European Scenarios – Report On a Major Research Project

Mr Wojciech Przybylski (Res Publica Foundation, Visegrad Insight, Warsaw) and Dr Joerg Forbrig (German Marshall Fund of the U.S., Berlin)
19 November 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
"Central European Futures: Five Scenarios for 2025" lays out five major scenarios that could dramatically alter the shape of Central Europe, and Europe at large, over the coming years. As this key... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series

30 Years after the Velvet Revolutions of 1989: Time for a New Liberation?

Professor Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's College, Oxford)
29 October 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
30 years ago, communist rule ended across central Europe in a dramatic series of events ranging from Solidarity's election triumph in Poland on 4 June 1989, through the ceremonial reburial of Imre... Read more
Ralf Dahrendorf Lecture

10th Anniversary Dahrendorf Lecture - 'Europe's Story: Phoenix or Phantom?'

Professor Timothy Snyder (Yale)
3 May 2019 - 4:45pm to 6:45pm
The Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford
Professor Timothy Snyder (Yale) will deliver the 10th Anniversary Dahrendorf Lecture at 4.45pm on 3rd May 2019 in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, Oxford. Subject: 'Europe's story:... Read more
Dahrendorf Programme

10th Anniversary Dahrendorf Conference: What stories does Europe tell? Contested Narratives, Complex Histories, Conflicted Union

Various
2 May 2019 - 2:00pm to 4 May 2019 - 3:00pm
The Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford
This year’s Dahrendorf Conference will take place on 2, 3 and 4 May at St Antony’s College. The Subject is 'What stories does Europe tell? Contested Narratives, Complex Histories, Conflicted Union'... Read more
Dahrendorf Programme

Leszek Kołakowski Lecture: Central European philosophy and the search for truth in dark times

Professor Marci Shore (Yale University)
1 March 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
The 2019 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture Marci Shore is associate professor of history at Yale University. Her research focuses on European intellectual history, in particularly twentieth and twenty-first... Read more