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.

Peter Thiel is a world-renowned entrepreneur, philanthropist and author. He co-founded PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund. He was the first outside investor in Facebook and an early investor in SpaceX and Airbnb. Through the Thiel Foundation, he supports research and innovation across a wide range of fields including technology, entrepreneurship and the philosophy of René Girard. He teaches at Stanford University and is the bestselling author of Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Crown, 2014).

John Gray is a globally-esteemed philosopher, political theorist and intellectual historian. He has an asteroid named after him and until 2008 he was School Professor of European Thought at the LSE. He now writes principally for the New Statesman and has authored over twenty books including the bestselling Seven Types of Atheism, Straw Dogs, Black Mass, The Soul of the Marionette, The Silence of Animals and Feline Philosophy. His latest book, recently published by Penguin in September 2023, is The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism.

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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.

Lionel Shriver is a world-renowned author and journalist. She has written fifteen novels including We Need to Talk About Kevin (Serpent's Tail, 2003) which won the 2005 Orange Prize and was adapted into the eponymous 2011 film. She is widely published in the British press and is a columnist for The Spectator. Her most recent novel is Should We Stay or Should We Go (HarperCollins, 2021) and her non-fiction collection, Abominations: Selected Essays From a Career of Courting Self-Destruction, was published by Borough Press in 2022.

Ruth Dudley Edwards is an award-winning historian, biographer and crime fiction writer. Her journalism is published regularly across the British and Irish press in the Telegraph, Sunday Independent and The News Letter. Her Amiss and Troutbeck novels have won multiple prizes, as have her numerous works of non-fiction including Patrick Pearse: The Triumph of Failure (Irish Academic Press, 2006) and Victor Gollancz: A Biography (Faber, 2012). Her most recent history is The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic (Oneworld, 2016).

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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.

Alexander Stoddart FRSE is a world-renowned sculptor, art critic and Honorary Professor at the University of the West of Scotland. In 2008 he was appointed as Her Majesty The Queen’s Sculptor in Ordinary in Scotland and is now His Majesty The King’s Sculptor in Ordinary. He lives and works in Paisley, Scotland. Stoddart’s large-scale monumental statuary is to be found most notably in Edinburgh and the United States of America.

Sir Simon Jenkins is an eminent editor, author and journalist. He was editor of the Evening Standard from 1976-78 and The Times from 1990-92. He has broadcast with the BBC and currently writes a twice-weekly column for The Guardian. He was knighted for services to journalism in 2004 and was chair of the National Trust between 2008-14. Jenkins is the author of over twenty books including England's Thousand Best Houses (Allen Lane, 2003), England's Hundred Best Views (Profile, 2013) and, most recently, Cathedrals: Masterpieces of Architecture, Feats of Engineering, Icons of Faith (Rizzoli, 2022).

Paul Lay is a highly distinguished historian, author and critic. He is Senior Editor at Engelsberg Ideas. He is a former editor of History Today, reviews for The Times, the Telegraph and Literary Review, and is the author of Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate (Head of Zeus, 2020), which was shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize.

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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.

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.

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