“We know there are Germans, Italians, Spaniards and Poles—but are there Europeans? Yes, at least one: Timothy Garton Ash.” – Mark Lilla, author of The Once and Future Liberal

Is Europe a real entity, or more like wishful thinking? Drawing on almost fifty years of study of European culture and politics, renowned historian and political commentator Timothy Garton Ash embarks on a journey through the post-war continent, to trace the lines of history that brought Europe together, and threaten to tear it apart.

Garton Ash’s book Homelands offers an account of history from the ground, offering memoirs of the author’s time living in post-Soviet Berlin and travelling the continent as a journalist and scholar. In conversation with arts journalist Paula Shields, Garton Ash will give his perspective on a geopolitical superpower on the brink of crisis.

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Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford and a columnist for the Guardian. His books include The File, his riveting autobiographical account of investigating the contents of his Stasi file after the fall of East Germany.