As part of our newly launched series of events, "Meditations on Europe", we are hosting another discussion featuring a panel of distinguished speakers.
Thursday, 26. November 2026, 18:30 – 20:00 h
At the University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, KOH-B-10
As a new format, the SIAF has included a series of panel discussions in its programme. Through these "Meditations on Europe", we aim to explore new perspectives on our continent.
More details to follow.
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Admission is free. No pre-registration necessary. No seat reservation possible. The security staff reserves the right to check bags/backpacks. Taking photos and filming are prohibited without authorisation and must be refrained from. The event will also be broadcast live and made available for replay.
Baroness Catherine Ashton served as the European Union’s first High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy from 2009 to 2014, and the first female EU Commissioner for Trade. She is a life peer and former Leader of the House of Lords, and served as a UK government minister in the Education and Justice departments. She is a Distinguished Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC and a consultant to the Geneva-based Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue.
Photo: © Roger Harris
Timothy Snyder is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Toronto and a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. His books, which have been translated into more than forty languages, include "Bloodlands", "Black Earth", "The Road to Unfreedom", "On Tyranny" and, most recently, "On Freedom".
Snyder was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford and has been awarded Carnegie and Guggenheim fellowships. His work has been honoured with the Hannah Arendt Prize, the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding and a literary prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Photo: © Klaus Ranger, IWM