Talks

With Timothy Snyder & Nataliya Gumenyuk on Ukraine, Europe & Trump
The New York Review, 30 Oct 2024

Europe at the Beginning of a New Era
LSE Maurice Fraser lecture, 31 Oct 2024

Where is Central Europe now?
SSEES and Czech Center London, 11 Oct 2024

On Ukraine’s place in Europe
Thinking In Dark Times podcast, 19 May 2023

On Germany’s role in Europe (in German)
Studio 9 - Der Tag Mit podcast, 16 May 2023

In conversation with Yascha Mounk
The Good Fight Podcast, 22 Apr 2023

Europe Whole and Free
2023 Dahrendorf Lecture, 28 Apr 2023

What should liberals do about the crisis of liberalism?
Talk for @5x15, 18 May 2021

China's system vs. liberal democracy
Munk debate with Zhang Weiwei, 23 Jun 2020

30 Years after the Velvet Revolutions of 1989: Time for a New Liberation?
St Antony's College, Oxford, 8 Sep 2020

"Es ist erschreckend, wie wenige sich selbst treu bleiben"
Interview with Herlinde Koelbl, Zeit Magazin, 26 Dec 2019

Looking Ahead: The 89ers and the Future of the EU
London School of Economics and Political Science, 30 Jan 2019

Can we still Realise the Promise of 1989?
Center for European Policy Analysis Forum, Washington, 24 Sep 2018

What Went Wrong with Liberalism? And What Should Liberals do About it?
Political Quarterly Lecture, Institute for Government, London, 20 Jun 2018

Poland, Europe, Freedom: Personal Reflections on 40 Years
Polish Studies Programme, Cambridge University, 14 Feb 2018

Free Speech under Threat in Universities
Cara Lecture, London, 29 Nov 2017

Does European Populism Exist?
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard, 18 Sep 2017

Free Speech and the Defence of an Open Society
Central European University, Budapest, 23 Feb 2017

Is Europe Disintegrating?
University of Warsaw, 25 Apr 2017

Free Speech in an Age of Trumpery
The New School for Social Research, New York, 29 Sep 2016

International Relations - The Struggle for Power Over the Internet in a Post-American World
Hinsley Lecture, Cambridge University, 2014

5 Minutes on the UK and Europe
London School of Economics and Political Science, 2014

Free Speech Bites
Index on Censorship, 2013

Orwell Lecture at Unprecedented Literary Festival in Burma
Inaugural Irrawaddy Literary Festival, 2013

Combining Freedom and Diversity
Fritt Ord & NYRB-Conference, Oslo, 2012

European Germany in a German Europe
Munich Security Conference, 2012

Muslims in Europe! The Challenges to Liberalism
Tony Judt memorial lecture, Remarque Institute, NYU, 27 Sep 2011

Colbert Show appearance
Jun 2011

Orwell Prize Discussion about Free Speech
Oxford University, Feb 2010

Why Germany still Needs Europe
Intelligence Squared

In conversation with Tobias Wolff
Hoover Institute, Stanford, 6 Oct 2010

The Europe we Need
IIEA, 23 Jun 2009

Velvet Revolution
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, 24 Sep 2009

Isaiah Berlin and the Challenge of Multiculturalism with Aung San Suu Kyi
Aljazeera English, Dec 2010

Charlie Rose interview
29 Oct 2010

Interview with Dominic Hilton on the Prospects for a Free World
openDemocracy, 24 Feb 2005

Conversations with History with Harry Kreisler
Institute of International Studies, Berkeley University, 5 Apr 1996

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