Tocqueville on Revolution and Democracy: A conversation with Jan Tokarski

Monday, December 1, 2025 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm CET/GMT+1 

Online (Zoom)

PL 265 Interpreting the French Revolution seminar cordially invites you to a conversation with the Polish scholar and publicist Jan Tokarski. Dr. Tokarski will lead a discussion about Alexis de Tocqueville's vision of the French Revolution and its relevance to the present travails and future prospects of liberal democracy.

Please email [email protected] to RSVP

Zoom link
Meeting ID: 849 6728 4916
Passcode: 821725

Dr. Jan Tokarski (born 1981) is a historian of ideas, essayist, regular contributor to Kultura Liberalna, and editor of Przegląd Polityczny and the quarterly Kronos. His latest book, In the Shadow of Catastrophe: Encounter, the Congress of Cultural Freedom, and the Memory of the 20th Century, received the 2024 Marcin Król Award. He is currently at work on a book-length biography of Alexis de Tocqueville.

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Email: [email protected]