Sanford S. Elberg Lecture: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
Timothy Garton Ash is a writer and Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford. He is the author of "Und willst Du nicht Bruder sein..." Die DDR heute (1981), a book published in West Germany about what was then still East Germany; The Polish Revolution: Solidarity (1983), which won the Somerset Maugham Award; The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (1989), for which he was awarded the Prix Europeen de l'Essai; and We the People: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague (1990; U.S. Edition: The Magic Lantern), which has now appeared in fifteen languages. His latest book is In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent (1993).
After reading Modern History at Oxford, his research into the German resistance to Hitler took him to Berlin, where he lived, in both the western and eastern halves of the divided city, for several years. From there he traveled widely behind the iron curtain. Throughout the 1980s he reported and analyzed the emancipation of Central Europe from communism in contributions to the Spectator, the Independent, the Times, and the New York Review of Books. From 1984 to 1986 he was editorial writer on Central European affairs for the London Times, and until 1990 he was Foreign Editor of the Spectator. From 1988 to 1990 he also wrote a fortnightly column in the Independent. He remains a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, the TLS, the Times, and other journals. He was named Commentator of the Year in 1989 and has been awarded the David Watt Memorial Prize (1990) and the Premio Napoli (1995).
In 1986-87 he was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. From 1988 to 1989 he conducted a research project on Ostpolitik at St. Antony's, where since 1990 he has held a Senior Research Fellowship in Contemporary European History. He is also a Governor of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and a Fellow of the Berlin-Brandenburg (formerly Prussian) Academy of Sciences. He has been honored with both the Polish and the German Order of Merit.
See Timothy Garton Ash's 1996 Elberg Lecture, "Is Europe Becoming Europe?"and Interview with Timothy Garton Ash, part of the Conversations with History video series.
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