On March 10th, 2011, the Institute of American Economy and Transatlantic Relations together with the US Embassy in Warsaw organized a guest lecture by Dr. Richard Wolin on "Intellectuals and Contemporary Politics". educated individuals in shaping political discourse in Europe and North America.
Dr. Wolin is professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and has taught at Reed College, Rice University, and the University of Paris. He is the author of Heidegger's children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, Herbert Marcuse; Seduction into Irrationality: An Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism, and more recently, "The Wind From the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution and the Legacy of the 1960s" (all published by Princeton University Press). Dr. Wolin writes frequently on political topics at the National, Dissent and New Republic levels. His books have been translated into ten languages. Previously, he lectured in Łódź, Kraków and Warsaw.