British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Isaiah Berlin Centenary
Wolfson College, Oxford
Saturday 6 June 2009
Convenor: Professor Jon Stallworthy, FBA
Related resources
The following links may be of interest to those attended (or who were unable to attend) the centenary commemoration of Sir Isaiah Berlin's birth at Wolfson College, Oxford). A podcast of James Billington's lecture will be added to this list shortly.
- A collection of podcasts of talks given by Sir Isaiah (Oxford University via iTunes; requires iTunes to be installed)
- Berlin Virtual Library at Wolfson
- The Academy’s memoir, by Professor Alan Ryan, FBA
- His entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Sir Isaiah in conversation with Michael Ignatieff , his official biographer (via youtube):
- A personal impression from Professor Alan Ryan, FBA – part of Wolfson’s Lives and Works Series, introduced by Professor Hermione Lee, FBA
- Examination of his contemporary relevance (‘Isaiah Berlin: The free thinker’ Independent, 28 May 2009)
- Response to his critics by Michael Ignatieff in 2000 (‘The devil and the deep red sea’, Guardian, 22 January 2000)
- Appreciation of Sir Isaiah from 1966 (‘Man in the news: Sir Isaiah Berlin’, New York Times, 8 February 1966 (free registration may be required)
- His life revealed through his letters (‘Centennial impressions’,Economist, 4 June 2009)
- His views on Zionism and his Jewishness through the eyes of a close friend (Three faces of Isaiah Berlin, Times, 29 May 1998)
- His obituary from the Independent, 7 November 2007 (Sir Isaiah Berlin, Independent, 7 November 1997)
- His position in the pantheon of ‘high-brow’ broadcasters of the 1960s. (‘Thought crime’, Guardian, 1 November 2003)