UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global A ffairs hosted Timothy Snyder\, Professor of History at Yale University and an award-winning author\, for a virtual event as part of our 2021 Phil Lind Initiative series on The Anti-Democratic Turn.
This event w as moderated by Hugh Gusterson\, Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, UBC.
Learn m ore about the 2021 series\, The Anti-Democratic Turn\, here.
Bio: Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of Hist ory at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sc iences in Vienna. He speaks five and reads ten European languages. His eigh t chief books are Nationalism\, Marxism\, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1998)\; The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland\, Ukraine\, Lithuania\, Belarus\, 1569-1999 (2003)\;< em> Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist’s Mission to Liberate Sovie t Ukraine (2005)\; The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke (2008)\; Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010)\, Thinking the Twentieth Century (with Tony Judt\, 2012)\ ; Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (2015)\; O n Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017)\; and The Road to Unfreedom: Russia\, Europe\, America (2018). He has also co-edited three further books: The Wall Around the West: State Borders and Immigration Controls in Europe and North America (2001)\; Stal in and Europe: Terror\, War\, Domination (2013)\; and The Balkans as Europe (2018). His essays are collected in Ukrainian History\, Russ ian Politics\, European Futures (2014)\, and The Politics of Life and Death (2015).
His newest book Our Malady is a short\, urgent exam ination of healthcare as a human right which begins from Snyder`s recent an d nearly fatal illness. From his hospital bed\, he rethinks the connection s between the health we lack and the freedom we need. In a time of authorit arianism and pandemic\, the timeliness of this book cannot be overstated. B oth a cri de coeur and a data-driven argument\, it shows the way towards an America that is both healthy and free.
Snyder’s work has appeared in forty languages and has received a number of prizes\, including the Emerso n Prize in the Humanities\, the Literature Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, the Václav Havel Foundation prize\, the Foundation for Polish Science prize in the social sciences\, the Leipzig Award for Europea n Understanding\, the Dutch Auschwitz Committee award\, and the Hannah Aren dt Prize in Political Thought. Snyder was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford\, h as received the Carnegie and Guggenheim fellowships\, and holds state order s from Estonia\, Lithuania\, and Poland. He has appeared in documentaries\ , on network television\, and in major films. His books have inspired post er campaigns and exhibitions\, films\, sculpture\, a punk rock song\, a rap song\, a play\, and an opera. His words are quoted in political demonstra tions around the world\, most recently in Hong Kong. He is researching a f amily history of nationalism and finishing a philosophical book about freed om.
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