Special Events
Disturbing the Peace, Intellectuals and Universities in an Illiberal Age
Lecture presented by Tony Judt
University Professor and Director, Remarque Institute at NYU
December 4, 2006
Religion and the Limits of Tolerance, Dutch multiculturalism in question
A discussion, October 10, 2006
Participants:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch political activitist and Parliamentarian
Frits Bolkestein, former President of the Liberal Party in the Dutch Parliament and European Commissioner
Bas Heijne, Dutch journalist and author of Hollandse toestanden (The State of the Netherlands)
Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute, NYU
"What happens now? Israel and the Palestinians After Gaza, Sharon, and Hamas"
A discussion, March 9, 2006
(co-sponsored with the Israel Forum)
Participants
Christopher Hitchens, independent author and journalist
Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute, NYU
Elias Khouri, Middle Eastern Studies, NYU
Gidon Levy, editorialist and commentator for Ha'aretz, Israel
"What is to be Done?: America, Europe & the West Today"
A discussion. November 29, 2004
Participants:
Professor Michael Mandelbaum, Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy, Director of the American Foreign Policy Program, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies
Professor Andrew Moravcsik, Professor of Politics, Director, European Union Program,Princeton University
Ambassador Peter van Walsum, Former Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the United Nations
Moderator:
Professor Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute, New York University
"Does The Jewish State Have a Future? Debating Israel in America"
A discussion, April 20, 2004
Co-sponsored by Columbia University, the Israel Forum and the Remarque Institute, NYU
Participants:
Alan Brinkley, professor of American history and Provost of Columbia University
Amos Elon, noted Israeli author and historian
Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute, NYU
Raef Zreik, a Palestinian-Israeli civil rights lawyer and political activist
"What now? A debate on America in the world"
Date: Saturday, May 10, 2003
America and the world since 9/11
Moderator:
Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute, NYU
Speakers:
Azyumardi Azra, Rector, Syarif Hidayatullah State Institute for Islamic Studies Jakarta, Indonesia
Christoph Bertram, Director, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Nikolai Zlobin, Senior Fellow,The Center for Defense Information, Washington D.C.
America and the Middle East
Moderator: Michael Gilsenan, Chair, Middle Eastern Studies, NYU
Speakers:
Shlomo Ben-Ami, Former Foreign Minister of Israel, Elias Sourasky Professor, Tel Aviv University
Anatol Lieven, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington D.C.
Robert Malley, Middle East Program Director,The International Crisis Group, The Council on Foreign Relations, Washington D.C.
Salim Tamari, Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, Institute of Jerusalem Studies, Birzeit University
What is to be done?
Moderator: Paul Boghossian, Chair, Philosophy Department, NYU
Speakers:
Joshua Cohen, Professor and Chair, Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dominique Moïsi, Deputy Director, Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI), Paris
Samantha Power, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Edward W. Saïd, University Professor of English and Comparative Literature Columbia University
Israelis and Palestinians: Tragic dilemmas and Mortal dangers
by Amos D. Elon
November 22, 2002
Remarque Senior Visiting Fellow, independent writer and journalist. Author: The Pity of It All: A History of Jews in Germany, 1743-1933; A blood-dimmed tide: Dispatches from the Middle East; Jerusalem, Battleground of Memory; Theodor Herzl: A biography and The Israelis: Founders and Sons.
"America and the Age of Genocide"
A conversation, April 2,2002
Samantha Power, (Executive Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University), Tony Judt - given upon the occasion of the publication of her book (Basic Books), A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism
Co-sponsored with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Chair: Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic
Discussants:
Paul Baumann, Commonweal
Istvan Deak, Columbia University
Jack Miles, God: A Biography
David Kertzer, author of The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modem Anti-Semitism
Introduction by Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute
Remarque Institute Faculty-Graduate Open Seminar
The nature of European and American influences on Japan
Ian Buruma, Fall semester 2000
"The Spectre of Haider: Austria's Past or Europe's Future?"
Panel discussion, February 29, 2000
Participants:
Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute
Anson Rabinbach, Department of History, Princeton University
Andrei S. Markovits, Professor of Politics, The University of Michigan
Richard Mitten, Professor of History, Central European University, Budapest
