Michael Ignatieff in Scotland, 15th – 17th December

Michael IgnatieffEdward R. Murrow Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, and author of The Needs of Strangers (1984), Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism (1993), Isaiah Berlin: A Life (1998), The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (2004) and Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics (2014), will be in Scotland for the 2014 Knox Lecture at the University of St Andrews and a lecture at the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Details are below; for further information contact Prof. John Haldane FRSE, Director, Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, St Andrews and Chair, Royal Institute of Philosophy, London: jjh1@st-and.ac.uk.

University of St Andrews Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs: 2014 KNOX MEMORIAL LECTURES AND SEMINARS

Monday 15th December, 2014

  • 11am – 1pm:Seminar 1: Capitalist Freedom and Political Tyranny (Room 104, Dept of Philosophy, The Scores)
  • 5.15 – 6.30pm: 30TH SIR MALCOLM KNOX MEMORIAL LECTURE: CIVIL COURAGE AND THE MORAL IMAGINATION (School III, St Salvator’s Quad, North Street)

Tuesday 16th December, 2014

  • 11am – 1pm: Seminar 2: Knox Lecture Discussion (Room 104, Dept of Philosophy, The Scores)

1ST ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY and ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH LECTURE

Wednesday 17th December, 2014

  • 6pm: Liberal Democracy and Authoritarian Capitalism (Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22-26 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2PQ).