About this Event
Timothy Garton Ash CMG FRSA is Professor of European Studies at the European Studies Centre, St Anthony's College, Oxford, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is internationally known as an expert on the recent history of Europe, with special reference to Central and Eastern Europe. He has the unusual distinction of being celebrated as an academic, as an author and as a journalist.
His many awards include the Charlemagne Medal (awarded in the cause of promoting European unity - other recipients have included Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and Pope Francis), and the Orwell Prize and Somerset Maugham Prize.
He has been foreign editor of The Spectator, and a columnist for The Independent , The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. Time Magazine voted him one of the world's hundred most influential people, stating: "shelves are where most works of history spend their lives. But the kind of history Garton Ash writes is more likely to lie on the desks of the world's decision makers".
Prof Garton Ash is renowned for his passionate belief in the cause of Europe and his articulate opposition to Brexit.
Among his 10 widely-praised books is The file, based on the Stasi file collected during the year he studied in East Berlin. More recently he has published Homelands, of which Lea Ypi said: “A moving love letter to Europe, Homelands merges memoir, political analysis and social criticism to reflect on the future of a continent still haunted by its past. Friend of dissidents in former communist Europe, first-hand witness of high politics in the West, Garton Ash is unafraid to think about what the European project got wrong but also how it can redeem itself.”
Prof Garton Ash is absolutely the person for whom the term 'public intellectual' was invented. We are privileged to be able to welcome him as a speaker and to have the opportunity of a question and answer session.
The main topic of the meeting : Prof Garton Ash will ask where Britain will stand in relation to Europe under a new British government, and with a new US president - and where it should stand.
At the meeting some of his books will be available for sale and Prof Garton Ash has kindly agreed to sign them.
Further info:
https://www.timothygartonash.com/
On Twitter / X: @FromTGA
http://www.oxfordforeurope.org
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
New Road Baptist Church, 14 Bonn Square, Oxford, United Kingdom
GBP 3.00 to GBP 6.00
