On an annual basis the Institute invites a distinguished person to give public lectures in New York on a subject of his or her own choosing. They are intended for a broad audience and it is hoped that they will contribute to public understanding of European history, politics, culture, and the arts and to the creation of a growing constituency for discussion about Europe.
Past Lectures:
Tony Judt Memorial Lecture
Timothy Garton Ash Presents:
"Muslims in Europe! Challenges to Liberalism"
September 27, 2011
America's Edge: A Global Country in a Global Century
Anne-Marie Slaughter
October 2008
The Politics of the Forever War:
Terror, Rights and George Bush's State of Exception
Mark Danner
November 2006
Politics and Patriotism in America
David Halberstam
October 2004
The European City and the Language of the Novel
Robert Alter
October 2002
Disgust, Shame, and the Roots of Prejudice
Martha Nussbaum
March 2001
The Holocaust: Old Controversies, New Debates
Saul Friedländer
October 1999
The Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century
Michael Ignatieff
March 1998