Dignity and Historical Injustice: The History of an Albanian Family

Delivered by the most outstanding academics in the UK and beyond, the British Academy’s flagship Lecture programme showcases the very best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. This event is part of the Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture Series on modern history and politics, first delivered in 1996.

Join Professor Lea Ypi FBA as she reads and discusses her new book, tracing the journey of a woman from Ottoman Salonica to a life under surveillance in post-war communist Albania. The book explores the moral and political meanings of individual and collective dignity, in connection to questions of truth and reconciliation, historical injustice and the relationship between fact and fiction.

Speaker: Professor Lea Ypi FBA

Lea Ypi FBA is Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science, an Honorary Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University and a Permanent Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin. Her latest book, Free: Coming of Age at the end of History won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and was translated into more than 30 languages.

Chair: Dr Shaun Hides, Coventry University