The Transylvania Lectures series was launched in February 2022, bringing foreign speakers to the MCC Center in Kolozsvár/Cluj every month. The aim of the event is to organize round-table discussions where prominent opinion-formers discuss current issues of international public discourse. The aim is not to provide a quick analysis of everyday events of short-term interest, but rather to address the broader, strategic issues of concern to the modern thinker.
Our previous Transylvania Lectures:
Dr. Sebastian Morello
philosopher, writer, lecturer and public speaker
Dr. Virgil Adumitroaie
a Data Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA
Todd Bensman
investigative author, former journalist
Axel Voss
Member of the European Parliament
Dr. Torbjørn Netland
Professor and Head of Chair of Production and Operations Management at ETH (Federal Institute of Technology) Zurich
Karen de Sousa Pesse
digital advisor, diversity and gender equality activist
Andrew Greenwood
professional dancer and an international ballet master
Dr. Jan Bentz
Lecturer and Tutor Blackfriars Studium, Oxford
Dr. Paul Videsott
Dean of the Faculty of Education of the Free University of Bolzano/Bozen and editor-in-chief of the European Journal on Minority Issues
Prof. dr. Richard A. Werner
economist, university professor, investment and policy adviser
Zoe Strimpel
writer, broadcaster and historian of gender in modern Britain
Revd Nigel Biggar
CBE, Phd, Oxford University
dr. Patrick J. Deneen
Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame
dr. Calum T. M. Nicholson
British-Canadian anthropologist
Julius Strauss
former war correspondent
Shaun Riordan
director of the Chair for Diplomacy and Cyberspace at the European Institute of International Studies, former British diplomat
dr. Peter Boghossian
an American philosopher and pedagogist
Charles Crawford
diplomat, former UK Ambassador to Sarajevo, Belgrade and Warsaw
dr. Gladden Pappin
associate professor of politics, University of Dallas, MCC visiting senior fellow
dr. James Orr
Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
dr. Peter Kurti
director of the Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society program, adjunct associate professor in the School of Law, University of Notre Dame Australia