Join us Monday, August 26th as Masha Gessen, current Director’s Guest, will present a lecture titled “Parallel Polis.”
Masha Gessen, Director’s Guest (Writing, USA)
Masha Gessen is a journalist and the author of ten books of nonfiction, most recently The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, which won the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was recently translated into Italian (Sellerio, 2019). Gessen is also the author of the national bestseller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012). Gessen is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a national fellow with New America Foundation.
Welcome Cocktail at 6:00 PM
Presentation at 6:15 PM