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SALZBURG GLOBAL LECTURE SERIES

Henry Brandon Lecture

THE HENRY BRANDON MEMORIAL LECTURESHIP ON CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY

The Henry Brandon Memorial Lectureship on Contemporary European History was established in 1994 through the generosity of Mabel Hobart Wentworth Brandon. The Henry Brandon Lecture is delivered at programs of the Salzburg Global Seminar.

Oscar Henry Brandon was born on March 9, 1916, in Liberec, in former Czechoslovakia, and studied at Prague and Lausanne Universities. He began his career with the Sunday Times (London) in 1939, serving as a war correspondent in North Africa and Western Europe from 1943 to 1945; Paris correspondent to 1946; roving diplomatic correspondent to 1949; and Washington correspondent (later, chief American correspondent) from 1949 until he retired in 1983. Mr. Brandon concurrently served as associate editor of the Sunday Times during a significant period of his time with the Times and was the recipient of numerous journalistic awards. A naturalized British subject, Mr. Brandon was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1985 by Queen Elizabeth II. In 1970, Mr. Brandon married Mabel Hobart Wentworth, who directed corporate programming for the Ford Motor Company, served as social secretary in the Reagan White House, and is on staff at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts. It is through her generosity that Salzburg Global Seminar now houses a collection of Henry Brandon’s books.

THE HENRY BRANDON LECTURERS

1994    The Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Palliser, Inaugural Lecturer
1995    R. Spencer Oliver, Esq.
1996    Claus-Dieter Ehlermann
1997    Dominique Moïsi
1998    John C. Kornblum
1999    Eva Nowotny
2000    Helen Wallace
2001    Lord David Hannay, GCMG
2002    Tony Judt
2003    Jay T. Harris
2004    Anne Sloman
2005    William Drozdiak
2006    Erika Mann
2007    Beate Winkler
2008    François Heisbourg
2009    John C. Kornblum, Ewald Nowotny, Jan Urban, and Franz Vranitzky
2010    Mark Ellis
2011    Claude Kieffer
2012    Wolfgang Schüssel
2013    Myles Bremner
2014    Gennady Burbulis
2018    Charlie Savage
2023    Timothy Snyder