Conference
Part I. Love and Death -
4 February 2001
9.30 – 20.00
Tilburg University
The Quest for Life
Speakers
Lebanon, 1957
Pierre Audi
former director of the Dutch Opera
Italy
Laura Bossi
neuroscientist
Uruquay, 1958
Moshe Halbertal
professor of Jewish thought
Poland, 1945
Eva Hoffman
writer and professor of creative writing
United Kingdom, 1943
Robin Holloway
neo-romantic composer
Canada, 1947
Michael Ignatieff
politician, intellectual and moral philosopher
United States, 1952
Paul W. Kahn
professor of law and humanities at Yale
United Kingdom, 1951
Nicholas Kenyon
music expert
United Kingdom, 1930 - 2019
Bryan Magee
philosopher, politician and broadcaster
Argentina, 1948
Alberto Manguel
writer and bibliophile
South Africa, 1935
Albie Sachs
anti-apartheid activist, lawyer and judge
United Kingdom, 1944 - 2020
Roger Scruton
conservative philosopher and art expert
Russia, 1951
Tatyana Tolstaya
writer from the Tolstoy family
Peru, 1936
Mario Vargas Llosa
winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
The Netherlands, 1950
Heikelien Verrijn Stuart
journalist, law scholar, writer
United Kingdom, 1948
Ian McEwan
writer
United Kingdom, 1955
Simon Rattle
conductor
Germany, 1944
Bernhard Schlink
writer and law professor
Jordan, 1966
Ghazi bin Muhammad
prince and Professor of Philosophy
USA, 1952
Leon Wieseltier
Jewish-American public intellectual and editor of Liberties