Univ. Prof. Dr. Norman Stone
8. April 2003
6:00 pm
Vienna International Centre
Conference Room F1001

Univ.Prof. Dr. Norman Stone (Bilkent University / Ankara) and Member of the Scientific Board of OTW talked on The Central European Emigration in Turkey 1930-1960.

Abstract The Central European Emigration in Turkey 1930-1960 : The Turkish minister of education described the outflow of scholars from Central Europe to Turkey between the Wars as the equivalent of the flight of Byzantine scholars five centuries before to Italy, where they were said to have "caused the Renaissance". Einstein, Hindemith, Bartok were at the head; but there was an extraordinary outflow of architects, mathematicians, medical doctors, international lawyers and economists who are remembered to this day not just by their students, but by the students of their students.


The VIC Turkish Art and Culture Club.

The VIC Turkish Art and Culture Club is established in 1992 in the Vienna International Centre. The aim of the Club is to promote inter-cultural activities and to introduce the Turkish art and culture to the Vienna international Centre staff members and to the community of Permanent Missions to the United Nations in Vienna mainly by organizing cultural trips, presentations, exhibitions, concerts and speeches.


c.v. of Univ. Prof. Dr. Norman Stone

The Director of the Russian-Turkish Centre, Norman Stone, born in Glaskow in 1941, has been Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara, since 1997. He was previously (after 1984) Professor of Modern History at Oxford, and before then (after 1965) Lecturer in Russian and German History at Cambridge where, latterly, he was a Fellow of Trinity College. His undergraduate education occurred at Cambridge (1959-62) but his graduate work was done on Central European History, in Vienna and Budapest (1962-65). His principal publications are The Eastern Front 1914-1917 (1975) which won the Wolfson Prize, Hitler (1980), Europe Transformed 1878-1919 (1983), all of which are still in print (Penguin, Hodder-Coronet and Blackwell, respectively). A further book, The Atlantic Revival 1970-1990, will be published in 2003 by Random House (it is centred upon the 1980's). He intends thereafter to work on various aspects of the Russo-Turkish relationship, past and present. He has been a frequent commentator, since 1985, in British press, and has also written for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Wall Street Journal.