Professor Timothy Garton Ash: White Eagle, Red Background: A Centenary of Polish Independence, A Century of Europe

Timothy Garton Ash is the author of nine books of political writing or ‘history of the present’ which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last thirty years. He is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and he writes a column on international affairs in the Guardian, which is widely syndicated in Europe, Asia and the Americas. He also contributes to the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

Sponsored by the Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish Studies, University of Toronto, the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.