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Canada, 1947
politician, intellectual and moral philosopher

Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff is an author, former politician and one of the world’s leading public intellectuals. Ignatieff was the leader of the liberal opposition in the Canadian parliament from 2008 to 2011, and is currently the president and rector of the Central European University in Budapest. Due to the Hungarian government’s attacks on this prominent liberal institution, Ignatieff was forced to announce the university’s move to Vienna at the end of 2018. Ignatieff taught at Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard and the University of Toronto, made programmes for the BBC and is the author of books including The Lesser EvilPolitical Ethics in an Age of Terror (2004), Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics (2013) and The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World (2017). Ignatieff has regularly spoken and written for the Nexus Institute and held the keynote lecture at the very first Nexus Conference in 1996.

Published in

Journal Nexus
2020

Nexus 83

Wat regeert de wereld?
Journal Nexus
2018

Nexus 79

Brief aan mijn leraar
Journal Nexus
2015

Nexus 68

Oorlog en vrede
Journal Nexus
2011

Nexus 58

Lofzangen
Journal Nexus

Nexus 50. Europees humanisme in fragmenten

Grammatica van een ongesproken taal
Journal Nexus
2010 or Earlier

Nexus 28

Een tijd van wangeloof
Journal Nexus
2010 or Earlier

Nexus 21

Het testament van de 20ste eeuw Deel II. Afgoderij
Journal Nexus
2010 or Earlier

Nexus 15

Het testament van de 20ste eeuw Deel I. Strategieën van vergetelheid

Speaker at

Conference

Nexus Conference 2019

The Ring or What Will Rule the World

Sunday 10 November 2019 9.30 – 16.00 National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam

Conference

Anniversary Conference

War and Peace

20 September 2014 10.00 - 17.00 National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam

Conference

Nexus Conference 2008

Identity Please!

14 June 2008 09.30 - 18.00 Passenger Terminal, Amsterdam

Symposium

Michael Ignatieff and Ruud Lubbers

Intellectuals and Politics

14 June 2007 16.00 - 18.00 Auditorium Tilburg University
NEXUS041204

Conference

Nexus Conference 2004

Europe: A Beautiful Idea?

4 december 2004 9.00 - 18.10 Van Nelle Ontwerpfabriek, Rotterdam

Conference

Part II. Evil

The Quest for Life

11 June 2002 9.20 - 21.45 Tilburg University

Conference

Part I. Love and Death

The Quest for Life

4 February 2001 9.30 - 20.00 Tilburg University
Ignatieff_-Robert-Goddyn

Lecture

Nexus Lecture Michael Ignatieff

An Age of Bad Faith

24 October 2000 Tilburg University

Conference

Nexus Conference 1999

No Place for Cosmopolitans?

8 October 1999 9.35 - 21.45 Tilburg University

Conference

Part II. Idolatry

The Legacy of the Twentieth Century

15 May 1998 9.30 - 20.00 Tilburg University
wagner

Conference

Nexus Conference 1997

The Trial of Richard Wagner

3 September 1997 10.45 - 21.30 Tilburg University
The Atomium

Conference

Part I. The Politics of Amnesia

The Legacy of the Twentieth Century

21 May 1996 10.00 - 20.00 Tilburg University