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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Petryshyn Memorial Lecture: Anne Applebaum
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SUMMARY:Petryshyn Memorial Lecture: Anne Applebaum
DESCRIPTION:<h2>"They Didn't Understand Anything, Just Spoiled People's Lives": Brutality, Incompetence, and Historical Echoes in Russian-occupied Ukraine&nbsp;</h2><p><strong>Anne Applebaum</strong>,&nbsp;staff writer, <em>The Atlantic</em>;&nbsp;Senior Fellow, SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University&nbsp;</p><p><em><span><strong>In Person and Online</strong></span></em></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Note: This event will be streamed only via Zoom. A recording will be made available on YouTube at a later date.</p><drupal-media alt="Anne Applebaum poster with background of destroyed building" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="e0f79cee-0b0d-4da6-8317-b311bf8f6860">&nbsp;</drupal-media><h2>About the Speaker</h2><drupal-media alt="Anne Applebaum" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="4cb1ad83-7189-4a58-b9c9-ea291f785f49" data-view-mode="hwp_small" data-align="left">&nbsp;</drupal-media><p><strong>Anne Applebaum</strong> is a journalist, a prize-winning historian, a staff writer for <em>The Atlantic</em>,&nbsp;and a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where she co-leads a project on 21st century disinformation and co-teaches a course on democracy. Her books include <em>Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine</em>; <em>Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956</em>; and <em>Gulag: A History</em>, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. Her most recent book is the <em>New York Times</em> bestseller, <em>Twilight of Democracy</em>, an essay on democracy and authoritarianism. She was a <em>Washington Post</em> columnist for fifteen years and a member of the editorial board; she has also been the deputy editor of the <em>Spectator</em> and a columnist for several British newspapers. Her writing has appeared in the <em>New York Review of Books</em>, <em>The New Republic</em>, the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, <em>Foreign Affairs</em>, and <em>Foreign Policy</em>, among many other publications.&nbsp;</p><p>───◊───</p><p>Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Megan Duncan Smith, HURI Programs Coordinator, at&nbsp;<a href="mailto:duncansmith@fas.harvard.edu">duncansmith@fas.harvard.edu</a>&nbsp;in advance of the session (at least two weeks prior, if possible).</p><p><span>Watch videos of past HURI events on our&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/huriyt"><span>YouTube Channel</span></a><span>&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/lists/huri-events-list.lists.fas.harvard.edu/"><span>subscribe</span></a><span>&nbsp;to our email list to receive announcements about events and other activities.</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The <a href="https://huri.harvard.edu/petryshyn-memorial-lecture">Petryshyn Memorial Lecture</a> is given annually by a distinguished scholar with national or international reputation in the field of Ukrainian studies. The lecture is supported by a fund donated by&nbsp;the estate of the late Vasyl and Maria Petryshyn, as well as their son Dr. Wolodymyr Petryshyn and other family members.</p>
LOCATION:Room S-020 (Belfer Case Study Room), CGIS-South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
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