Tracing lines across the map and through time, novelists, historians and politicians examine subjects from the Ottoman empire, to the Soviet era, the East-West divide, and culture in thriving hubs today.
Jonathan Freedland: The Man Who Escaped Auschwitz
Saturday 13 August 13:00 - 14:00
Rupert Thomson: Homage to Catalonia
Monday 15 August 10:15 - 11:15
Iain MacGregor: Stalingrad Revisited
Tuesday 16 August 20:15 - 21:15
Serhii Plokhy with Allan Little: Ukraine at the Crossroads of Europe and Russia
Tuesday 16 August 20:30 - 21:30
Kirsty Bell: If Berlin Walls Could Talk
Wednesday 17 August 12:15 - 13:15
Jakuta Alikavazovic with Allan Little: Lives Shaped by War
Friday 19 August 10:15 - 11:15
Marc David Baer: The World Was Theirs
Saturday 20 August 10:15 - 11:15
Chitra Ramaswamy: Homelands
Sunday 21 August 13:00 - 14:00
Close Read: Chitra Ramaswamy on Austerlitz by W G Sebald
Monday 22 August 10:30 - 12:00
James Birch: Six Degrees of Francis Bacon
Thursday 25 August 13:00 - 14:00
Gideon Rachman, Andrew Wilson & Lea Ypi: Follow the Leader
Thursday 25 August 20:00 - 21:00
Lea Ypi with Allan Little: What Does Freedom Mean in Europe?
Friday 26 August 16:00 - 17:00
Fatima Daas & Shumona Sinha: Immigrants in Paris
Friday 26 August 16:15 - 17:15
Discretion: A Performance on Independence and Exile
Sunday 28 August 19:00 - 20:15
Elena Pala, John Retallack & Sandro Veronesi: The World of the Hummingbird
Monday 29 August 10:30 - 12:00
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