The 2019 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture was given by Marci Shore, associate professor of history at Yale University. Her research focuses on European intellectual history, in particularly twentieth and twenty-first century Central and Eastern Europe. She received her M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1996 and her PhD from Stanford University in 2001; and since 2004 has regularly been a visiting fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. She is the translator of Michał Głowiński's The Black Seasons and the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, and The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. In 2018 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her current project titled “Phenomenological Encounters: Scenes from Central Europe.” The lecture was hosted by the Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom at the European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College and chaired by Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies.

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The 2019 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture - Central European philosophy and the search for truth in dark times

Jacques Rupnik gives the 2018 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture

The 2018 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture - Poland between Europeanism and Nationalism: National Exception or Regional Norm?

Squaring the Circle on Brexit - Could the Norway Model work? - at the European Studies Centre on June 1, 2018

Squaring the Circle on Brexit - Could the Norway Model work?

Prof Dariusz Stola, Director of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, gives a talk for the Programme on Modern Poland on 4th February 2015. Introduced by Professor Tim Garton Ash and Dr Mikolaj Kunicki.

One century, three Polands: the Second Republic, People’s Poland, and the Third Republic

Colin Mayer (Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School) gives a seminar for the PEFM programme. Chaired by Adam Bennett (St Antony's College, Oxford).

Sustainable finance: Restoring confidence and stability in the financial system

Speakers include: Ivo Banac (Yale University), Richard Crampton (St Edmund Hall, Oxford), Basil Gounaris (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Margaret Macmillan (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Eugene Rogan (St Antony’s College, Oxford) Convened by Othon Anastasakis (St Antony’s College, Oxford), David Madden (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Elizabeth Roberts (St Antony’s College, Oxford)

The past is never dead: Balkan legacies of the First World War part two

Speakers include; Ivo Banac (Yale University), Richard Crampton (St Edmund Hall, Oxford), Basil Gounaris (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Margaret Macmillan (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Eugene Rogan (St Antony’s College, Oxford) Convened by Othon Anastasakis (St Antony’s College, Oxford), David Madden (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Elizabeth Roberts (St Antony’s College, Oxford)

The past is never dead: Balkan legacies of the First World War part one

Ulrich Beck, University of Munich and LSE, delivers the 2014 Dahrendorf Lecture. Discussants: Kalypso Nicolaïdis ,St Antony’s College, Oxford, Lord David Hannay, Former UK Permanent Representative to the EU and UN. Convenor: Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s College, Oxford).

The Cosmopolitan Outlook: How the European Project can be Saved

Seesox annual lecture. Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania.

Reinventing politics: From the local to the regional and beyond

2014 Elliott Lecture, St Antony's College. On 14 March 2014 the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre at St Antony’s College organised the 2014 Elliott Lecture: “Ukraine and its Place in the World”. The panellists were Mr Aleksander Kwasniewski – former President of Poland, Dr Javier Solana – former NATO Secretary General and EU high Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy and Dr Gwendolyn Sasse, Nuffield College, Oxford. The discussion was moderated by the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Patten.

Ukraine and its Place in the World

Poland, Ukraine, and the Politics of History

Poland's Peaceful Revolution: 25 Years After the Polish Roundtable Talks. Part Eight.

Poland's Peaceful Revolution: 25 Years After the Polish Roundtable Talks. Part Three.

Poland's Peaceful Revolution: 25 Years After the Polish Roundtable Talks. Part Seven.

Poland's Peaceful Revolution: 25 Years After the Polish Roundtable Talks. Part Six.

The European Studies Centre at St Antony's College is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of Europe. It has particular strengths in politics, history and international relations, but also brings together economists, sociologists, social anthropologists and students of culture. We see ourselves as a meeting place and intellectual laboratory for the whole community of those interested in European Studies at the University of Oxford.

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