In 2012 the programme of the Isaiah Berlin Day in Riga included expert discussion about demographic situation in the Baltic states, BBC documentary about the early life and times of Isaiah Berlin „The Making of A Hedgehog”. The central part of the event was the Isaiah Berlin Memorial Lecture delivered by author, academic, broadcaster and Isaiah Berlin’s biographer Michael Igantieff and entitled „Isaiah Berlin, the Soviet Empire and the Captive States”.
16:00 – 17:15 Panel discussion „Shrinking Populations in the Baltic countries: Crisis and Response”
Mare Ainsaare, Research Fellow in social policy at the University of Tartu
Rolands Lappuķe, Ambassador-at-Large of the Latvian Foreign Ministry
Virgus Valentinavičius, Advisor to the Prime Minister of Lithuania
Moderator: Robert Cottrel, Editor, The Browser
17:30 – 18:30 Documentary "The Making of A Hedgehog”
BBC television documentary about the early life and times of Isaiah Berlin, presented by Michael Ignatieff, recorded in 1997
Introduced by David Herman, producer of the film
18:45 – 20:00 The Fourth Isaiah Berlin Memorial Lecture “Isaiah Berlin, the Soviet Empire and the Captive States”
Michael Ignatieff, author, academic, broadcaster, and Isaiah Berlin’s biographer
Introductory remarks by Dr. Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
