Book Club: March 3, 2025, 2-4pm, – Fellows and External Fellows

March 3 2025, 2-4pm, – Fellows and External Fellows

Homelands: A Personal History of Europe by Timothy Garton Ash (2023)

Discussion Leader: David Milne

Winner of the 2024 Gelner Prize, Homelands was chosen as the best book in international affairs by the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Taking his subject from the Second World War, Ash returns to the last places of his dad’s wartime experience in 1945 on a continent then resembling “nothing so much as Hieronymus Bosch’s depictions of hell.” He takes us in hand on a journey conversing with people and leaders over the events that shaped a continent’s history, a fascinating diary of scholarship, reportage and memoir. Ash warns us that Europe’s fate which we once thought was secured with the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 – is now battered by a host of dangerous challenges — from Putin’s war on Ukraine to nationalist far-right attacks on democracy and the European Union. (Available in all formats; 348 pages)

The link to register is https://forms.office.com/r/HZ6nxVJE9j

The deadline to register is the Monday morning the day of the event at 8 am. The Zoom link will be sent to registrants only.

If you have any questions, please contact the organizer – Linda Hutcheon at l.hutcheon@utoronto.ca.