Conference
Part II. Evil -
11 June 2002
9.20 – 21.45
Tilburg University
The Quest for Life
Speakers
France, 1932
Alain Besançon
historian, Russian expert
United States, 1942
Robert Boyers
humanities scholar and author
South Africa, 1940
John M. Coetzee
writer and Noble Prize laureate
Canada, 1941 - 2009
Gerald Cohen
Marxist philosopher
United States, 1952
Andrew Delbanco
humanities scholar
Serbia, 1953
Aleksa Djilas
writes on Yugoslavian history and politics
United States, 1918 - 2013
Joseph Frank
biographer of Dostoevsky
United States, 1959
Daniel Goldhagen
controversial political theorist
Uruquay, 1958
Moshe Halbertal
professor of Jewish thought
Belgium, 1955
Kristien Hemmerechts
writer
Canada, 1947
Michael Ignatieff
politician, intellectual and moral philosopher
United States, 1948
Norman Kleeblatt
curator
Poland, 1927 - 2009
Leszek Kolakowski
Polish thinker and historian of ideas
United States, 1941
Paul Mendes-Flohr
specialist in Jewish history
United States, 1955
Susan Neiman
philosopher
United Kingdom, 1949
Jacqueline Rose
writer and literary theorist
Canada, 1947
John Ralston Saul
writer and President of PEN International
United Kingdom, 1944 - 2020
Roger Scruton
conservative philosopher and art expert
Peru, 1936
Mario Vargas Llosa
winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
United Kingdom, 1965
James Wood
literary critic
United States, 1952
Peggy Boyers
poet
Cameroon, 1960
Achille Mbembe
eminent African intellectual and research professor
Romania, 1954
Mircea Mihaies
cultural scholar
United States, 1931 - 2007
Richard Rorty
pragmatist philosopher
South Africa, 1955
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
psychologist, member of Truth and Reconciliation Commission