{"id":33570,"date":"2022-11-24T23:18:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T23:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=33570"},"modified":"2022-11-24T23:18:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T23:18:02","slug":"how-history-writes-the-present-a-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=33570","title":{"rendered":"How History Writes the Present: A Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian and Staff Writer for The Atlantic Anne Applebaum<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday, November 28, 2022 3:00 PM to 4:15 PM EST<br><em>Zoom Webinar<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anne Applebaum has built a career over the past 25 years as a wide-ranging public intellectual&#8211;a renowned popular historian of Ukraine, eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union and a highly-respected columnist and staff writer focused on politics not only in eastern Europe but also in the United States. How is her historical research reflected in her writing on current events? How does her work on the history of the Gulag, the Sovietization of eastern Europe, or the Holodomor inform her understanding of Russia&#8217;s criminal war on Ukraine? Applebaum will answer these questions and many more in a wide-ranging and open conversation and q&amp;a about how history writes the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anneapplebaum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Anne Applebaum&nbsp;<\/strong><\/a>is a staff writer for&nbsp;<em>The Atlantic<\/em> and a Pulitzer-prize winning historian. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the Agora Institute, where she co-directs Arena, a program on disinformation and 21st century propaganda. In addition to her voluminous writings in publications including&nbsp;<em>The Atlantic<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Washington Post<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The New Yorker<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Foreign Affairs<\/em>, and many others, she is the author of <em>Gulag: A History <\/em>winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction,&nbsp;<em>Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956<\/em>, and <em>Red Famine: Stalin&#8217;s War on Ukraine<\/em>. Applebaum&#8217;s newest book is&nbsp;<em>Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anne Applebaum will be interviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/rest.gmu.edu\/people\/sbarnes3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steven Barnes<\/a>, Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/rest.gmu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies<\/a> and Associate Professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/historyarthistory.gmu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of History and Art History<\/a> at George Mason University. He is the series organizer and teaches and researches broadly on the history of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, modern Russia, Kazakhstan, and the other independent countries from this imperial space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This lecture is part of George Mason University&#8217;s Fall 2022 Lecture Series, &#8220;Russia&#8217;s War on Ukraine in Historical Perspective.&#8221; For other events and information on the series, <a href=\"https:\/\/rest.gmu.edu\/russia-war-on-ukraine\">visit the main series page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gmu.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_afPUIOTuTDmlaVOybZe0Kw\" target=\"_blank\">Register for the Zoom webinar for this and other events in the series.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rest.gmu.edu\/events\/13496\">https:\/\/rest.gmu.edu\/events\/13496<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Applebaum_Atlantic.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55974,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55974","url_meta":{"origin":33570,"position":0},"title":"Anne Applebaum, \u201eAutokracija d. d.\u201c","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"26. listopada 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Anne Applebaum u knjizi \u201eAutokracija d. d.\u201c analizira kako suvremeni autoritarni re\u017eimi sura\u0111uju u \u0161irenju propagande, korupcije, nadzora i represije te postupno potkopavaju demokratske institucije diljem svijeta. 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