AUK

The author of many history books about Balkans, Noel Malcolm offered a lecture at the American University in Kosovo. Dr. Malcolm’s lecture drew a great attention from AUK students but also from intellectual and diplomatic circles of Prishtina.

After the lecture, Dr. Malcolm agreed to answer some questions from the audience and also signed some of his books for a very interested audience at this lecture.

Noel Malcolm is one of the best known historians and writers on Kosovo and the Balkans. His history books on Bosnia and Kosovo have made a difference in the world opinion about the circumstances which led to the wars during the 1990s. Noel Malcolm was educated at Eton College, read History at Peterhouse, Cambridge, wrote his doctorate dissertation at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was for a time Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

He is a former Foreign Editor of The Spectator, and columnist for the Daily Telegraph. In 1995 he became a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 2002. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy, serves on the advisory board of the conservative magazine Standpoint, as a general editor for the Clarendon edition of the complete works of Thomas Hobbes, and the editor of The Correspondence.

Currently he chairs the Board of Trustees at the Bosnian Institute, an organization on Bosnia-Herzegovina

Among the writings of Noel Malcolm are:

Bosnia: A Short History (1994), Origins of English Nonsense (1997), Kosovo: A Short History (1998), Aspects Of Hobbes (2002) and (with Jacqueline Stedall) John Pell (1611-1685) and His Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician (2005). He is the editor of The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes (1994).

He has also written George Enescu: His Life and Music (1990) (Toccata Press). He also wrote a pamphlet in 1991 titled Sense on Sovereignty, a discussion of the arguments about Britain’s membership of the European Union published by the Centre for Policy Studies.