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News from Scrutopia - 31st May 2022

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Nostos Conference - Oslo - 21st May 2022

New Direction together with Foreningen for alle konservative studenter and the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation are pleased to present the first Nostos conference in Oslo. Bringing together students and scholars from across Scandinavia to discuss what it means to be a conservative. The conference will focus on the life and legacy of the late English philosopher Sir Roger Scruton, who for many years served as the intellectual backbone of the European conservative movement.

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News from Scrutopia - 5th April 2022

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Scrutopia Summer Programme 2022

News from Scrutopia - 3rd February 2022

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Against the Tide - January 2022

'A fitting tribute to the Tories’ philosopher king'
Read Marc Sidwell's review of Against the Tide in The Telegraph here : http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/839/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/839/pub/839/page/81/article/259056

Join the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation for a conversation with Irish philosopher Mark Dooley marking the publication of Against The Tide: The best of Roger Scruton's columns, commentaries and criticism (Bloomsbury, 2022). Dooley, Scruton’s lit...

News from Scrutopia - 23rd December 2021

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Roger Scruton awarded Honorary Citizenship of the City of Brno

 

Roger Scruton has been awarded Honorary Citizenship (in memoriam) of the City of Brno in the Czech Republic. The City Council of Brno gave the honour on Tuesday 7 December 2021.  The City Council of Brno only awards honorary citizenship once every four years to personalities of significance countrywide who have a special relationship to the City of Brno, the honour was also given to a Brno historian, a leading Czech jazz musician who is founder and director of his orchestra, the bis...

Niall Ferguson opens Roger Scruton memorial lecture series

Roger Scruton finally makes his mark on Oxford
Niall Ferguson opens Roger Scruton memorial lecture series

ARTILLERY ROW By Graham Stewart 18 October, 2021
 
Oxford’s Sheldonian theatre is expecting a near capacity audience this Monday evening for the first annual Roger Scruton Memorial Lecture. The lecture series, which commemorates the life and thought of Britain’s leading modern conservative philosopher, will commence with a lecture by the historian, Professor Niall Ferguson, on the future of th...

Charles Moore's Spectator column 4 Nov

In Oxford a week ago, the last of the first Roger Scruton memorial lectures took place. It was delivered by Jonathan Sumption, whose subject was, simply, ‘Democracy’. Its survival, he said, was by no means assured. After it, I interviewed him on stage. The memory of Sir Roger, the great conservative thinker, was suitably honoured by the venue, the Sheldonian. And the fact that his ideas are of the moment was confirmed by the numbers: 700 people, mostly undergraduates, got in and others had to be...