We would like to invite you to a meeting with Anne Applebaum – prominent historian, journalist, publicist and commentator on international politics.
The event, entitled “Autocracy, Inc. and the Future of Freedom”, will take place on 30 May at the Rawa Club in spinPLACE (5 Bankowa St., Katowice) at 7:30 p.m.
The meeting will be moderated by Prof. Agnieszka Turska-Kawa, Vice-Rector for Science and Prof. Tomasz Pietrzykowski, Vice-Rector for International and Domestic Cooperation.
Registration via email rejestracja.wydarzenia@us.edu.pl until 27.05.2025. Number of places limited – first come first served.
Anne Applebaum explores the challenges and opportunities arising from global political and economic transformations through the lens of history and the current political landscape. She is the author of the acclaimed book Gulag, which earned her the Pulitzer Prize, and Red Famine, which brought her the Duff Cooper Prize and the prestigious Lionel Gelber Prize. Her works, including Iron Curtain and Between East and West, have become foundational texts in the contemporary debate on Central and Eastern Europe.
In 2024, she was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, previously received by the likes of Salman Rushdie and Amartya Sen.
Anne Applebaum has contributed to some of the world’s leading publications, including The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and The Spectator. She has also collaborated with Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, and The New York Review of Books. From 1988 to 1991, she covered the fall of communism as The Economist’s Warsaw correspondent.
Due to registration verification, doors will open at 6:30 PM.