Time To Talk
Kim Sengupta is The Independent’s defence and diplomatic correspondent. He covers international and domestic news and his extensive reporting from around the world has included many of the major conflicts in recent times. Information valid as of autumn 2016.
Caroline Lees is a researcher at the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and the editor of a Europe-wide network of journalism research platforms, entitled the European Journalism Observatory. A former news and foreign correspondent, she has worked as a South Asia correspondent for The Sunday Times, covering areas such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Kashmir. She…
Haider Al Safi is a London-based Iraqi journalist and media consultant, covering Middle Eastern politics. He started working as a journalist in 2003 during the American invasion of Iraq and ran the office for The Independent newspaper in Baghdad. Together with his colleagues he covered stories from all over Iraq, exposing him to the dangers of war – he was caught…
This page featured a live debate from The Red House. The live stream has now closed, but you can watch the raw footage above and highlights will soon be made available on the event page, which you can reach here. The exodus to Europe: has migration highlighted a European crisis of social solidarity? looked at the recent influx of people…
Evren Balta is a political scientist & conflict researcher. Specialising in international politics, transnationalism, citizenship studies, territorial politics, security studies & civil war, Evren Balta holds academic qualifications in sociology, international relations and political science from universities in Ankara and New York and, in 2007, she received her PhD from New York’s City University for a dissertation on State Capacity, State…
Senem Aydın-Düzgit is a political scientist, editor and expert on the relationship between Turkey and the EU. Previously a Jean Monnet chair of EU political and administrative studies in the Department of International Relations at Istanbul Bilgi University, Senem Aydın-Düzgit now works as a senior scholar & research and academic affairs coordinator at the Istanbul Policy Centre and as an associate professor…
Join Rowenna Davis (Teacher, Writer and Author), Nick Gillespie (Journalist, Commentator and Editor-in-Chief of Reason.com), James Panton (Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Open University) and Łukasz Pawłowski (Managing Editor & Columnist, Kultura Liberalna) for a debate on what liberalism is and why it suddenly appears to be falling into malaise. Does liberalism’s fading popularity reflect a growing disenchantment with…
Join Frank Furedi (Sociologist, Social Commentator & Author), David Goodhart (Journalist, Author & Head of Demography at Policy Exchange) and Elif Shafak (Political Commentator & award-winning Novelist) for a debate on what populism is and why some populisms are more equal than others. Should we understand the rise of populism as a challenge to our elites’ top-down values or a…
Ivan Krastev is a political scientist and the president of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria, as well as a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. In Migrations. The 21st Century Revolution, he talked about international migration and how it can be seen as a 21st century revolutionary movement. English-language video highlights of this debate…
The stream is now closed, but you can still view the raw live footage of this Memorial lecture Enduring legacies: Ernst van Alphen on transgenerational trauma and approaches to the memoralisation of the Holocaust and the Gulag. For more information about the lecture and to access related reading, click here.
Ognyan Minchev is the executive director of the Institute for Regional and International Studies, an independent think tank, which provides policy analyses on regional and international security and cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe. Minchev is also chairmen of the board of the anti-corruption organisation, Transparency International Bulgaria and a professor of political science at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria. Previously, he has been a Fulbright fellow…
Katalin Erdödi is an independent curator and cultural worker based in Vienna and Budapest. As a curator she focuses especially on artistic strategies in the public sphere and the art and performance pieces which emerge from such engagement. Outside of art, she is also involved in the work of several independent groups and initiatives, working on migration and labour related…