Session Chair: Ian Buruma
10:00 – 10:20 Introductory remarks: Dr Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Mārcis Auziņš (Rector of the University of Latvia), Inta Brikše (Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Latvia), Andris Aukmanis (Executive Director, Soros Foundation – Latvia)
10:20 – 11:30 Henry Hardy, „Isaiah Berlin in Person”
11:45 – 13:00 Steven Lukes, „Isaiah Berlin The Liberal”
14:00 – 15:30 Avishai Margalit „Isaiah Berlin, Home and Homeland”
Venue: Small Guild, Amatu iela 3/5, Riga
Chair: Nils Muižnieks
19:00 – 19:10 Introduction: Dr Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
19:10 – 20:00 Timothy Garton Ash: „Isaiah Berlin, Europe, and Diversity”
June 2nd
Venue: Small Guild, Amatu iela 3/5, Riga
Session Chair: Gideon Lichfield
09:00 – 09:15 Introductory remarks: Evan Zimroth
09:15 – 10:15 Gershon Hundert: „Isaiah Berlin, Jewish History and Biography”
10:30 – 11:30 Aivars Stranga: „The Jews of Riga”
11:45 – 13:15 Barry Rubin: „What Would Isaiah Berlin Say About Israel Today?”
14:15 – 17:00 Bus tour of Riga ghetto, and Rumbula massacre site
17:00 – 18:30 Discussion at the Jewish Community Center, Skolas iela 6: „The Jewish Community in Riga Today”, with Arkady Sukharenko
June 3rd
Venue: Small Guild, Amatu iela 3/5, Riga
Session Chair: Pauls Raudseps
09:00 – 09:15 Introductory remarks: Pauls Raudseps
09:15 – 10:15 Aryeh Neier in conversation with Charles Grant: „On Positive Liberty”
10:15 – 11:15 Ian Buruma in conversation with Bill Emmott: „Isaiah Berlin as a public intellectual”
11:30 – 12:45 Larry Siedentop: „Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightment?”
Session Chair: Robert Cottrell
14:00 – 14:45 Tatyana Pozdnyakova „Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin”
15:00 – 15:45 Jon Stallworthy: „The Philosopher King, the poet’s subject”
16:00 – 16:45 Extracts from Jonathan Levi’s opera, „Guest from the Future”
17:00 – 18:00 Justin Cartwright: „The Song Before It is Sung”
18:15 – 19:15 Paul Delany „Isaiah Berlin and the Animal Instinct”
Venue: Great Guild, Amatu iela 6, Riga
19:30 Alla Demidova reads poetry of Anna Akhmatova (in Russian)
Venue: K. Suns, Elizabetes iela 83/85 k.3, Riga
21:30 – 22:30 Arkady Ostrovsky: „The Coast of Utopia”. A night owl session with drinks in a cinema. Moderated by Baņuta Rubess
June 4th
Venue: Soros Auditorium, Stockholm Schools of Economics, Strēlnieku iela 4a, Riga
15:30 – 17:30 „Liberalism in Latvia and the region today”. Discussion open to the public, led by Latvian participants in the Centenary Seminar Group, relating Berlin’s thought to practical issues in contemporary Latvian society and politics
18:30 – 20:00 „Nationalism is a threat to Europe”. Oxford-style public debate between treams of invited speakers, with questions and vote
Moderator: Charles Grant
Speakers: Ian Buruma, Maria Golubeva, Anatole Kaletsky, Edward Lucas
June 5th
Venue: Kino Riga, Elizabetes iela 61, Riga
15:00 Premier of Gints Grūbe documentary film, „Isaiah Berlin”. And of interviews given by Isaiah Berlin to Bernard Levin (1981) and Michael Ignatieff (1992). Introduction by Roberts Ķīlis
Venue: Small Guild, Amatu iela 3/5, Riga
19:30 Piano recital . Jevgeņijs Samoilovs. Beethoven and Tschaikovsky
June 6th
Venue: National Library of Latvia, Kr. Barona 14, Riga
12:30 Dr Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga unveils the Centenary Bust of Isaiah Berlin, by Anthony Stones
Photo gallery from Centenary of the Birth of Sir Isaiah Berlin
