Hannah Arendt Center Presents

What is Brexit?

Join us for a discussion with Ian Buruma and Richard Aldous on Brexit:

• What is Brexit?
• What is the European Union and why is the UK leaving?
• Why hasn’t Brexit happened yet?
• Why did Parliament reject Theresa May’s Brexit deal?
• What is the new Brexit deal?
• What happens next?

Ian Buruma is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism. Studies in Chinese literature and history at Leyden University; graduate studies in Japanese cinema at Nihon University, Tokyo. Documentary filmmaker and photographer in Tokyo (1977–80); cultural editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, Hong Kong (1983–86); foreign editor of The Spectator, London (1990–91). Fellowships: Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin (1991–92); Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C. (1998–99); Alistair Horne Visiting Fellow, St. Antony’s College, Oxford (1999–2000). Regular contributor to New York Review of Books, New York Times Magazine, New Republic, New Yorker, and The Guardian. Books include Behind the Mask (1983); God’s Dust (1988); Playing the Game (1990); The Wages of Guilt (1995); The Missionary and the Libertine (1997); Anglomania: A European Love Affair (1999); Bad Elements (2001); Inventing Japan: 1853–1964 (2003); Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance (2006). Coauthor, Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies (2004). At Bard since 2003.

Richard Aldous is the Eugene Meyer Professor of British History and Literature. Ph.D., University of Cambridge. Fellow, Royal Historical Society. Author and editor of 11 books, including Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian; Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship; Macmillan, Eisenhower and the Cold War; The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli; and biographies of Malcolm Sargent and Tony Ryan. Taught for 15 years at University College Dublin, where he was chair of the History Department. Writes regularly for publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and The American Interest, where he is a contributing editor. Took up the Eugene Meyer Chair at Bard in 2010.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Time: 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

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