The New York Review of Books presents the final installment in a series of online events in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election. Join New York Review contributors Timothy Garton Ash and Timothy Snyder for a conversation around the fate of US policy in Ukraine and Russia during a Harris or Trump administration. The discussion will be moderated by the renowned Ukrainian journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk.
The conversation will last approximately 90 minutes, including a question-and-answer period.
Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies Emeritus at Oxford and a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. A longtime contributor to the New York Review, he is the author of 11 books of contemporary history, and most recently, Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, which recently won the Lionel Gelber Prize.
Timothy Snyder is the Levin Professor of History at Yale, where he also serves as faculty adviser to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Among his many books are: Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin (2010), Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (2015), On Tyranny (2017), and, most recently, On Freedom, which was published in September.
Nataliya Gumenyuk is a Kyiv-based Ukrainian journalist and author. She is the founder and CEO of the Public Interest Journalism Lab (PIJL) which promotes constructive discussion around complex social issues, and a co-founder of The Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies, which documents war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Russia. She is the author of The Lost Island: Tales From The Occupied Crimea (2020) and The Maidan Tahrir (2015), and co-author of The Scariest Days of My Life: The Dispatches of the Reckoning Project (2023).
About this series
The New York Review of Books is pleased to announce a series of virtual events on the most pressing aspects of the 2024 presidential election. In each conversation, held on Zoom, our contributors discuss the critical issues of our time. Each conversation will last approximately ninety minutes and include a Q&A session.
