Zygmunt Bauman opens London Festival of Europe 2007

Prof. Zygmunt Bauman delivers the opening lectuure of the London Festival of Europe 2007: 'Making the Planet Hospitable to Europe'

Suddenly, the fast globalized planet feels inhospitable to Europe, to Europeans, European notions of good and decent life, European preferences and hopes for the future... Why is this watershed change happening? And must it happen? Can the process be reverted? Having lost its hegemonic position and living in the shadow of an overseas world empire but also in the increasingly polycentric world Europe hesitates between two strategies: that of retrenchment and the planetary ambition and responsibility. Only the second contains a chance of making the planet hospitable to the values cherished and better or worse practiced by Europe. It so happens that those values rapidly gain in importance in our increasingly conflict-ridden world.
To be followed by a reception and screening of contemporary Romanian video art

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