“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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