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PODCAST: Simon Schama – The Fate of the Idea of Toleration
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2011-01-31 |
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182600 |
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PEARS INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF ANTISEMITISM
Birkbeck, University of Londonin association with the Anne Frank Trust
Public Lecture
Professor Simon Schama (University Professor of Art History and History, Columbia University)-The Fate of the Idea of Toleration
In this panoramic lecture, Simon Schama begins by considering the appeal and significance of Anne Frank and her diary for successive generations. He relates Anne’s experiences in hiding, as well as the choices and dilemmas facing the Dutch population in the face of Nazi occupation and murderous antisemitism, to the long and chequered history of toleration in Europe. In particular, he traces the idea and practice of toleration to the writings of figures such as Milton, Locke and Voltaire as well as to the politics of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century. Schama goes on to consider the challenges to toleration both in modern European history and in the present. He asks what the limits to toleration are and whether we are required to show forbearance towards those who are themselves intolerant.
This event has been recorded and is available as a podcast at the following URL:
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/01/simon-schama-the-fate-of-the-idea-of-toleration/
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