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SUMMARY:Poland\, Europe\, Freedom: A Personal Reflection on the Last 40 Ye
 ars - Professor Timothy Garton Ash\, European Studies\, University of Oxfo
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DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the permanent endowment of the Polish Studie
 s initiative at the University of Cambridge\, Professor Timothy Garton Ash
  (University of Oxford) will give an address on the subject of freedom in 
 Poland and in Europe over the last four decades.\n\nAfter the lecture\, we
  invite all guests to an informal wine reception to celebrate the permanen
 t endowment of Cambridge Polish Studies.\n\n"Please sign up for a free tic
 ket via Eventbrite.":https://www.eventbrite.com/e/timothy-garton-ash-polan
 d-europe-freedom-tickets-42166903343\n\n[Note: This is the rescheduled ver
 sion of an event originally planned for 31 October 2017. The event was pos
 tponed due to unforeseen circumstances.]\n\n\n\nTimothy Garton Ash is Prof
 essor of European Studies\, University of Oxford\, Isaiah Berlin Professor
 ial Fellow at St Antony’s College\, Oxford and a Senior Fellow at the Ho
 over Institution\, Stanford University. He is the author of ten books of c
 ontemporary history and political writing which have explored many facets 
 of the history of Europe over the last half-century. They include The Poli
 sh Revolution: Solidarity The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witne
 ssed in Warsaw\, Budapest\, Berlin\, & Prague\, The File: A Personal Histo
 ry\, In Europe’s Name: Germany and the Divided Continent and Facts are S
 ubversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name. He also writes 
 a column on international affairs in the Guardian\, which is widely syndic
 ated\, and is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books\, amon
 gst other journals.\n\nFrom 2001 to 2006\, he was Director of the European
  Studies Centre at St Antony's College\, Oxford\, where he now directs the
  Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom. Its Free Speech Debate res
 earch project\, built around the 13 language website freespeechdebate.com\
 , contributed greatly to the writing of his most recent book Free Speech: 
 Ten Principles For a Connected World.\n\nPrizes he has received for his wr
 iting include the Somerset Maugham Award\, the Prix Européen de l'Essai\,
  the Theodor Heuss Prize and the George Orwell Prize. He holds honorary do
 ctorates from St Andrew’s University\, Sheffield Hallam University and t
 he Catholic University of Leuven\, the Order of Merit from Germany\, Polan
 d and Czech Republic\, and the British CMG. He is a Fellow of the Royal So
 ciety of Literature\, The Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society o
 f Arts. In May\, he was honoured with this year's International Charlemagn
 e Prize of the city of Aachen\, for services to European unity.
LOCATION:Winstanley Lecture Theatre\, Trinity College
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