A lecture with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Anne Applebaum. An evening in the spirit of Vaclav Havel, featuring keynote remarks by Anne Applebaum, moderated Q&A with John Shattuck, and wine reception. Applebaum’s book, Autocracy Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World, will be available for purchase.
Tickets $25, available online through Eventbrite.
About
Anne Applebaum is a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, staff writer for The Atlantic, and senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Her books include Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956, and Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction. Her recent bestsellers include Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Rule the World. She was previously a columnist and editorial board member at The Washington Post and has contributed to numerous British and international publications.
John Shattuck is Professor of Practice in Diplomacy at Tufts University’s Fletcher School and a former Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. He served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor from 1993 to 1998, playing a key role in the Dayton Peace Process and the establishment of international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He was U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2001 and later President of Central European University in Budapest. His publications include Holding Together (2022), Freedom on Fire (2004), and Rights of Privacy (1980).
This event is organized by the Vaclav Havel Center, in collaboration with the Vaclav Havel Library (Prague), Czech Center New York, and the Bohemian Benevolent & Literary Association (BBLA).