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This is the sixth lecture of the series. In his sixth and final essay, Patočka asks, what was “that awesome will which for years drove millions of humans into a fiery furnace”? He is referring ...

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While Covid-19 is often construed as having apocalyptic - in the sense of cataclysmic - consequences for public health, in this talk, Danube Institute Visiting Fellow Dr Calum TM Nicholson suggests it...

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Panel discussion and book signing with the Hungarian Review authors.

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This is the fifth lecture of the series. Contemporary humanity is “simply no longer capable of physically surviving but for a mode of production that rests increasingly on technology,” claims Pa...

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Movies tell us a lot about the people and the nations that make them. They can tell us who those people are, and who they’d like to become. In this lecture, Rob Long will show us 5 movies from the p...

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This is the fourth lecture of the series. Nineteenth-century philosophers “did not for a moment doubt the spiritual origins of European unity,” writes Patočka, “and their conception is surely...

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Is Thatcherism Conservative? Hannes H. Gissurarson a professor of politics will answer this question at his second lecture, based on his recent article on The Guardian’s “Distorted Image of That...

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This is the third lecture of the series. In Patočka’s third essay, his question is whether history has a meaning. It is of course possible to reply, dogmatically, in the negative (“History is c...

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Hannes Holmsteinn Gissurarson will be talking about the conservative-liberal tradition which stretches back to the medieval writers Snorri Sturluson and St. Thomas Aquinas, but which was developed mai...

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