Interview between Lee Bollinger and Lenka Kabrhelová
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- 2017
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(Biographical) Lee Bollinger was born in 1946. He is president of Columbia University in New York City. In 2003, Bollinger met Václav Havel and invited him to Columbia for an artistic residence. Bollinger remembers Havel’s “naturalness” at their first meeting. Havel came to Columbia in 2006 and Bollinger recalls that students and faculty “were thrilled by his presence.” In this Havel Conversations interview Bollinger, a lawyer specializing in matters of freedom of speech, discusses the overlap between his concerns and the late Czech president’s own. He recalls Havel’s attitude towards public life and politics following the end of his presidency, during his time at Columbia (where he wrote the play Leaving). Finally, Bollinger praises Havel’s pragmatism
he argues Havel’s combination of intellectual ideals with political engagement resulted in the Czech “having a huge impact” on world affairs.
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The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation
- Contributing Institution
- Vaclav Havel Library Foundation
- Supporting Institution
- Florida International University Libraries
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- moving image
- Format
- 00:40:04
- Language
- English
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- The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation. Interview between Lee Bollinger and Lenka Kabrhelová. 2017. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI17082902/00001. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
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- The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation, (2017) Interview between Lee Bollinger and Lenka Kabrhelová. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI17082902/00001
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- The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI17082902/00001>.