The Second annual Isaiah Berlin Riga Memorial Lecture was given by Anne Applebaum on Monday, June 7th 2010, in the Mazā Ģilde, Riga. Her subject was: “The New Authoritarianism”. Besides that the Isaiah Berlin Day in Riga included an Oxford-style public debate on the motion: “We should be ready to sacrifice some of our freedoms in the fight against climate change” and a public discussion on the theme, “What Latvians have learned from the recession”.
13:00 – 15:00 Oxford-style public debate “We should be ready to sacrifice some of our freedoms in the fight against climate change”
Atis Zakatistovs, Foundation 'Partners in Ideas Fund'
Anatole Kaletsky, The Times
Marija Golubeva, Centre for Public Policy „Providus”
Oliver Morton, The Economist journalist, author of the book on alternative energy Eating the Sun
Moderator: Robert Cottrell, The Browser
16:30 – 18:00 Discussion “What Latvians have learned from the recession”
Vjačeslavs Dombrovskis, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
Nellija Ločmele, Magazine „IR” Editor-in-Chief
Inta Dzelme, psychotherapist
Aigars Bikše, artist
Moderators: Nils Muižnieks, The Advanced Social and Political Research Institute, University of Latvia
18:30 – 20:00 Second Isaiah Berlin Memorial Lecture “The New Authoritarianism”
Anne Aplbaum, Pulitzer Prize-winningauthor of the book „Gulag: A Hisotry”, journalist
Introductory remarks by Dr. Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
