Maria Fairweather / Choman Hardi / Rachel Bowlby / Catherine Audard

6.30-8.30pm | Thursday 16 November 2006
Hong Kong Theatre, LSE

Speakers
Maria Fairweather, Historian, biographer and simultaneous interpreter for Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major in European Languages
Choman Hardi, Poet with published collections of her own work written in both Kurdish and English
Rachel Bowlby, Professor of Modern English Literature at UCL and translator of books by contemporary French philosophers including Jacques Derrida
Catherine Audard, Fellow in Philosophy at the LSE and translator into French of John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism

The Heart of Europe
The recent upheavals and tensions in the EU and the uncertainty over the EU’s final frontier are posing fundamental questions at the intersection of philosophy, politics, sociology, economics, literature and intellectual history. The idea of a distinctive ‘European identity’ belongs at the heart of the idea of Europe itself. However, in a time when Europe citizens, the idea of a common European identity seems less secure than ever. It is in response to the profoundly uncertain situation of contemporary European life that we seek to engage in a deliberately multidisciplinary way with questions concerning the Heart of Europe.