Thursday 20 January 2022
19:00
Michael Ignatieff
Finding Solace in Dark Times, in collaboration with How to Academy
Michael reflects upon a philosophical question touching each of our lives: how do we console one other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes – war, famine, pandemic – we go in search of consolation. In exploring this essential idea, Ignatieff shows how men and women in extremity have looked to each other across time to recover hope and resilience.
Michael Ignatieff is a writer, historian and former politician. He has taught at Cambridge, Oxford, the University of Toronto and Harvard and is currently President and Rector at Central European University in Vienna. His books, which have been translated into twelve languages, include Blood and Belonging, Isaiah Berlin: a life, The Needs of Strangers, The Russian Album and The Ordinary Virtues.
'An extraordinary meditation on loss and mortality.’
Michael Ignatieff is a writer, historian and former politician. He has taught at Cambridge, Oxford, the University of Toronto and Harvard and is currently President and Rector at Central European University in Vienna. His books, which have been translated into twelve languages, include Blood and Belonging, Isaiah Berlin: a life, The Needs of Strangers, The Russian Album and The Ordinary Virtues.
