Bernhard Schlink
The German novelist and lawyer Bernhard Schlink was the Weidenfeld Visiting Chair of Comparative European Literature for the 2007/8 academic year. Schlink's has received global critical acclaim and has been awarded prestigious literary prizes in Germany, France and Italy. His works include the global bestseller The Reader (1997). Schlink is also a Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Humboldt University of Berlin and was a judge at the North Rhine-Westphalian Constitutional Court for eight years from 1988.
Schlink produced six lectures as the Visiting Weidenfeld Chair that were themed upon guilt over the Holocaust. They have subsequently been collated and published in Schlink's new book, Guilt About the Past (2009).
CEDAR Chair Ahmed Larouz, addressing the Social Innovation and Social Action Conference, Lambeth Palace, November 2011
Acclaimed sociologist Manuel Castells, Humanitas Visiting Professor in Media, Cambridge University, November 2011
Jonathan Powell, former aide to Tony Blair, addresses the inaugural Turkey Workshop, London, September 2011
Peter Kellner, President of YouGov and Dr David Muir, Faith in Britain, at the launch conference of the Phoenix Initiative, October 2010
The tenth meeting of the European Policy Planners' Network, hosted by the Home Office, London, November 2011
Lord Weidenfeld and Sir Ronald Grierson, co-founders of the Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Programme, April 2010
HE Karel Schwarzenberg, Czech Foreign Minister, addresses an invited audience at an ISD policy breakfast, October 2011
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Drama
University of Oxford, 5 to 10 February 2012
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Comparative European Literature
University of Oxford, 31 January to 21 February 2012
Policy Session: Oslo and Utøya, Six Months On
London, 23 January 2012
Weidenfeld Scholars Leadership and Public Policy Seminar
Hartwell House, 10 to 14 January 2012
Prison and Probation Officers Practitioner Exchange
Birmingham, 5 to 6 December 2011
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Architecture
University of Oxford, 28 to 29 November 2011
Weidenfeld Scholars' ISD Briefing
London, 22 November 2011
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Media
Cambridge University, 16 to 23 November 2011
10th Meeting of the European Policy Planners' Network (PPN)
London, 15 to 16 November 2011
Social Innovation and Social Action Conference
Lambeth Palace, 13 to 15 November 2011
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