CANCELLED: Europe and America: Twin Political Crises

Event time: 
Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Horchow Hall (HRCH ), 103 (GM Room) See map
55 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

*Please note that this event has been cancelled.*
The Jackson Institute for Global Affairs will host a lunchtime conversation with Anne Applebaum, a staff writer for The Atlantic and a Pulitzer-prize winning historian. She is also a Senior Fellow of International Affairs and Agora Fellow in Residence at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where she co-directs LSE Arena, a program on disinformation and 21st century propaganda.
The conversation, which is open to the Yale community only, will be moderated by historian and Jackson professor Tim Snyder.
 
A Washington Post columnist for 15 years and a former member of the editorial board, Applebaum has also worked as the Foreign and Deputy Editor of the Spectator magazine in London, as the Political Editor of the Evening Standard, and as a columnist at Slate and at several British newspapers, including the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs. From 1988-1991 she covered the collapse of communism as the Warsaw correspondent of the Economist magazine and the Independent newspaper.
 
Applebaum is the author of  among others, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956  and  Gulag: A History, for which she won the Pulitzer prize.  Her newest book, Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, received the Lionel Gelber Prize.