“A Dove Descending” – Roger Scruton in Eastern Europe for 40 years, memorial workshop

Date: 03.04.2024
Location: 1054 Budapest, Zoltán utca 10.
Registration: 8:45 – 9:15

Keynote Lecture:

• 9:15 – 9:30 – Greeting
• 9:30 – 10:00 – Sophie Scruton: Roger Scruton in Eastern Europe

Kraków – The Solidarity

• 10:00 – 10:30 – Zsolt Németh: Roger Scruton and Hungary
  President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Hungarian National Assembly
• 10:30 – 11:00 – Marek Matraszek:Roger in Poland
  Chairman of CEC Group
• 11:00 – 11:30 – Nick Zangwill PhD:One Year in Poland during the Cold War
  Professor, hon. research fellow, University College London

11:30 – 12:00 – Coffee break

Praha – Notes from Underground 

• 12:00 – 12:20 – Titus Tetchera: Scruton as Spy behind the Iron Curtain
  Executive director of the American Cinema Foundation
• 12:20 – 12:40 – Balázs Mezei PhD: Patocka, Platon and Europe
  Professor of Philosophy, Institute of Social and Political Sciences, Corvinus University of Budapest
• 12:40 – 13:00 – Ákos Windhager PhD: Anna, an „East Side Story” – Scruton about Eastern Europe
  Cultural manager of the Hungarian Scruton Hub; Senior Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Art’s Theory, HAA

13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch break

Budapest – Scruton in Hungary

• 14:00 – 14:30 – Ferenc Hörcher PhD: An Englishman in Budapest
  Professor, Head of the Institute for Political Science and Political Philosophy, Ludovika University of Public Service
• 14:30 – 15:00 – Mutaz Ahmed: Eastern Europe in the Salisbury Review
  Chief Editor of the Salisbury Review
• 15:00 – 15:30 – Mihály Rosonczy-Kovács: Recent Opportunities and challenges for the Hungarian-Polish friendship after the 24th of February 2022, with special regard to the political changes in Warsaw
  Director of Foreign Relations, Nézőpont Intézet

Closing Lecture

• 15:30 – 16:00 – Martin Fiala: From the first steps to the Velvet Revolution
  journalist, philosopher

Az esemény angol nyelven zajlik!
The language of the event is English!

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