Democracy and Disinformation - with Anne Applebaum

April 19, 2018, 12:15-1:30pm
Littauer Building, Fainsod Room, Littauer-324, 1805 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA

Join Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for a discussion with Anne Applebaum on disinformation in the 21st Century.

Anne Applebaum is a columnist for the Washington Post and a Pulitzer-prize winning historian. She is also Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics’s Institute of Global Affairs where she runs Arena, a program on disinformation and 21st century propaganda.

Formerly a member of the Washington Post editorial board, she 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.

Her newest book, "Red Famine: Stalin’s War" on Ukraine was published in October 2017.

Speakers:

Anne Applebaum, Washington Post

Nicholas Burns, Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations