Future Forum | Mar, 10 2022 12:00PM - 1:00PM
On February 24, Russian forces invaded Ukraine, culminating in the largest attack against one European state by another since World War II. Global leaders widely condemned Russia’s actions and announced unprecedented sanctions. Join us to discuss the invasion and the impact around the world.
Speakers:
- Marci Shore, Associate Professor, Department of History, Yale University
- Jeremi Suri, Professor in History and LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
- Moderator: Mark Lawrence, Director, LBJ Presidential Library
This will be a live Zoom webinar. Attendees will be able to ask questions of the speakers using the Q&A function.
About the speakers
Marci Shore teaches modern European intellectual history. She received her M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1996 and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2001; she taught at Indiana University before coming to Yale. Her research focuses on the intellectual history of twentieth and twenty-first century Central and Eastern Europe. She is the translator of Michał Głowiński’s The Black Seasons and the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, and The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. In 2018 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her current book project, a history of phenomenology in East-Central Europe, tentatively titled “Eyeglasses Floating in Space: Central European Encounters That Came About While Searching for Truth.”
Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a professor in the university's Department of History and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Dr. Suri is the author and editor of nine books on contemporary politics and foreign policy.
Dr. Suri writes for major newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Daily News, The Dallas Morning News, The Houston Chronicle, The Boston Globe, Foreign Affairs, Fortune, The American Prospect, and Wired—as well as for various online sites and blogs. He is a popular public lecturer and appears frequently on radio and television.
Dr. Suri teaches courses on strategy and decision-making, leadership, globalization, international relations and modern history. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses, and he teaches and serves as academic director for the Executive Master in Public Leadership program (EMPL) at the LBJ School.
Mark A. Lawrence is the Director of the LBJ Presidential Library. Previously Dr. Lawrence was an Associate Professor of History at The University of Texas at Austin, where he taught for 19 years. He also served as Director of Graduate Studies for UT-Austin’s Clements Center for National Security.
Dr. Lawrence is a scholar of American political history and U.S. foreign relations. He has taught an undergraduate course at the LBJ Presidential Library entitled “The Johnson Years” for the last six years. In October, he released a book The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era.
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