Agenda: Bloodlands: an evening with Timothy Snyder (Spui25)

31 mei 2011

In his sweeping Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, award-winning historian Timothy Snyder explains the origins of the killing policies of both Hitler and Stalin, and describes their lethal consequences for the peoples between Berlin and Moscow. He provides a new understanding of Hitler's Holocaust, Stalin's Terror, and the age of mass killing. This is the history of the greatest calamity of our time.

Professor Snyder will join us in Spui25 to speak about the specifics and conclusions of his most recent historical work and its bearing upon contemporary history, society and politics - as well as its relation to his efforts on behalf of the late Tony Judt's intellectual inheritance. The evening will commence with a lecture by mr. Snyder after which dr. Nanci Adler will join him in conversation. Prof. dr. Michael Wintle has kindly agreed to moderate the proceedings.

Timothy Snyder received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he was a British Marshall Scholar. He has held fellowships in Paris and Vienna, and an Academy Scholarship at Harvard. He is the author of Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (Harvard University Press, 1998, Halecki Prize); The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 (Yale University Press, 2003, awards from American Historical Association, American Association for Ukrainian Studies, Przeglad Wschodni, and Marie Curie-Sklodowska University); Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine (Yale University Press, 2005, Pro Historia Polonorum award); The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of A Habsburg Archduke (Basic Books, 2008), and Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Basic Books, 2010). Bloodlands has been translated in Dutch as Bloedlanden; it's the reason of Timothy Snyder's visit.

Bloodlands: an evening with Timothy Snyder (and Nanci Adler andMichael Wintle), is on Tuesday May 31st 2011, 20:00 - 22:00 at Spui25. Admittance is free, but reservation is obligatory.

There's a prepublication of the Dutch translation on our website.