2026 Berlin Lecture

Launched in 1990 to celebrate the 80th birthday of the College’s Founding President, Sir Isaiah Berlin, the Berlin Lecture is in his own field of study, the history of ideas. Each Trinity Term, we welcome speakers of the stature of Professor Amartya Sen, Professor Roy Foster, Professor Timothy Garton Ash, Michael Ignatieff and Baroness Helena Kennedy.

This May, we look forward to welcoming Fintan O’Toole, Irish journalist and public intellectual.

The Berlin Lecture is made possible thanks to an endowment gift from the Rothschild Foundation.