The 2022 Kahn Humanities Lecture with Masha Gessen
The 2022 Kahn Humanities lecture presents Masha Gessen, whose nonfiction probes political subjects through the lens of history, whether dissecting Russia, L.G.B.T. rights, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, or the rise of autocracy.
The Kahn Humanities lecture series at Brooklyn Public Library features innovative thinkers in the humanities or whose work effectively draws on the humanities. BPL Presents, the library's arts & culture department, is proud to feature the unique mind and urgent voice of Masha Gessen. One of our most trenchant observers of democracy, Masha Gessen is the author of eleven books, including the National Book Award-winning The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia and The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. A staff writer at The New Yorker, they have covered political subjects including Russia, L.G.B.T. rights, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and the rise of autocracy among others.
Gessen’s latest book, Surviving Autocracy, is a bracing overview of the calamitous trajectory of American democracy under the Trump administration. In the run-up to the 2016 election, they stood out from other journalists for the ability to convey the ominous significance of Donald Trump’s behavior, unprecedented in a national candidate. Within forty-eight hours of his victory, the essay “Autocracy: Rules for Survival” had gone viral, and their coverage of his norm-smashing presidency became essential reading for a citizenry struggling to wrap their heads around the unimaginable.
Participants
Masha Gessen is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of eleven books of nonfiction, including Surviving Autocracy and The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, which won the National Book Award in 2017. Gessen teaches at Bard College.
Photo credit Lena Di.
Gessen will be in conversation with Rabbi Rachel Timoner, who serves Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, New York. Together with New York City Council member Brad Lander, Rabbi Timoner established Get Organized Brooklyn, which is working to combat xenophobia, racism, and misogyny, and to strengthen ties among ethnic and faith communities. Rabbi Timoner attended Yale University and Hebrew Union College. She is the author of Breath of Life: God as Spirit in Judaism.
The 2022 Kahn Humanities Lecture with Masha Gessen is made possible by the Kahn Endowment for the Humanities.
The 2022 Kahn Humanities lecture presents Masha Gessen, whose nonfiction probes political subjects through the lens of history, whether dissecting Russia, L.G.B.T. rights, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, or the rise of autocracy.
The Kahn Humanities lecture series at Brooklyn Public Library features innovative thinkers in the humanities or whose work effectively draws on the humanities. BPL Presents, the library's arts & culture department, is proud to feature the unique mind and urgent voice of Masha Gessen. One of our most trenchant observers of democracy, Masha Gessen is the author of eleven books, including the National Book Award-winning The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia and The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. A staff writer at The New Yorker, they have covered political subjects including Russia, L.G.B.T. rights, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and the rise of autocracy among others.
Gessen’s latest book, Surviving Autocracy, is a bracing overview of the calamitous trajectory of American democracy under the Trump administration. In the run-up to the 2016 election, they stood out from other journalists for the ability to convey the ominous significance of Donald Trump’s behavior, unprecedented in a national candidate. Within forty-eight hours of his victory, the essay “Autocracy: Rules for Survival” had gone viral, and their coverage of his norm-smashing presidency became essential reading for a citizenry struggling to wrap their heads around the unimaginable.
Participants
Masha Gessen is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of eleven books of nonfiction, including Surviving Autocracy and The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, which won the National Book Award in 2017. Gessen teaches at Bard College.
Photo credit Lena Di.
Gessen will be in conversation with Rabbi Rachel Timoner, who serves Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, New York. Together with New York City Council member Brad Lander, Rabbi Timoner established Get Organized Brooklyn, which is working to combat xenophobia, racism, and misogyny, and to strengthen ties among ethnic and faith communities. Rabbi Timoner attended Yale University and Hebrew Union College. She is the author of Breath of Life: God as Spirit in Judaism.
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