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A conversation between Michael Ignatieff and Francisco Beltrán

El futuro vuelve a estar abierto. Libertad y democracia después del desencanto

La Fundación Rafael del Pino organiza, el próximo día 16 de septiembre a las 19 horas, el diálogo «El futuro vuelve a estar abierto. Libertad y democracia después del desencanto» entre Michael Ignatieff y Francisco Beltrán.

Michael Ignatieff (Toronto, 1947) es historiador, ensayista y académico. Doctor en Historia por la Universidad de Harvard, ha desarrollado su carrera en Cambridge, Oxford, Toronto y la propia Harvard, donde ocupó la cátedra Edward R. Murrow en la Kennedy School de Gobierno. Entre 2016 y 2021 fue presidente y rector de la Central European University, a la que condujo durante los años de su expulsión de Budapest y su refundación en Viena: un episodio que convirtió su trayectoria académica en un capítulo de la historia política europea reciente. Hoy es rector emérito y profesor en el Departamento de Estudios Históricos de la CEU. Su obra combina el rigor del historiador con la escritura de quien ha frecuentado el periodismo, el ensayo y el debate público. El profesor Ignatieff fue diputado en el Parlamento canadiense y lideró el Partido Liberal y la oposición entre 2008 y 2011, una experiencia que relató después sin complacencia en “Fuego y cenizas”. Pocos autores contemporáneos han pensado la democracia liberal desde dentro de sus instituciones y desde el reverso de sus derrotas. En el año 2024 fue distinguido con el Premio Princesa de Asturias de Ciencias Sociales.

Francisco Beltrán He is the Director of REMCO. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Valencia and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the UNED, a postgraduate qualification in Economics from the London School of Economics, a Master’s degree in Governance from the Autonomous University of Madrid, and a PhD in Political Science, also from the UAM. He is a Professor of Political Science at IE University, the Autonomous University of Madrid, and New York University Madrid. He was a Professor of Comparative Politics at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto between 2013 and 2021. Previously, he was a Visiting Lecturer at Lund University, a Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), and a Visiting Lecturer at the Munk School of Global Affairs, Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and a lecturer at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

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