“How civilisation will be drafted to narrate politic fear and majoritarian identity in Europe remains an open question, but it continues to animate and define a continent that feels under threat.”

Paul Betts, Professor of Modern European Histoy at St Antony’s College (University of Oxford), is the holder of the 2021-2022 Ganshof van der Meersch Chair at the Université libre de Bruelles. In this capacity, he delivered a public lecture entitled “A Re-Civilising Mission: The Cultural Reconstruction of Europe after 1945”. We are pleased to share the video of this lecture, which he gave on March 10, 2022.

You can find more video lectures by the previous holders of the Ganshof van der Meersch Chair here.