We are pleased to share this year's Roger Scruton Memorial Lectures. Now on its third year, this annual series of free public lectures honours Scruton's legacy by inviting eminent public intellectuals to speak on four topics of civilisational importance. Each lecture and conversation will take place in the Sheldonian Theatre at the University of Oxford during October 2023 from 5 pm - 6:30 pm (British Summer Time). These events are free, but require advance registration to attend. For those unable to attend in-person, lectures will be recorded and made available online at a later date.
16 OCtober 2023
‘The Life and Legacy of Sir Roger Scruton’
Douglas Murray In Conversation with Maurice Glasman and Jonathan Price
Douglas Murray is a world-renowned author and journalist. He is host of the Uncancelled History podcast, a columnist for The Sun and New York Post, associate editor of The Spectator, and the author of seven books including the bestselling The Strange Death of Europe (Bloomsbury, 2017), The Madness of Crowds (Bloomsbury, 2019) and The War on the West (HarperCollins, 2022). He was a close friend of Sir Roger Scruton.
Lord Maurice Glasman is a highly distinguished political theorist, social commentator and Labour life peer in the House of Lords. A staunch critic of the neoliberal consensus, his work emphasises the common good and ranges from trade unionism and the living wage to Brexit and conservative socialism. He is the founder of Blue Labour and Director of the Common Good Foundation, and teaches Politics and International Relations at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham. His latest book is Blue Labour: The Politics of the Common Good (Polity, 2022). He was a close friend of Sir Roger Scruton.
Dr Jonathan Price is Barry Fellow of Pusey House and Pusey Fellow of St Cross College, as well as a Research Associate of the Programme for the Foundations of Law in Oxford's Faculty of Law. He is expert in the theological and philosophical foundations of international law, and is the founding editor of Politics & Poetics. He was a close friend and student of Sir Roger Scruton.