In conversation with Professor Timothy Snyder
In person only
As the world navigates a second Trump administration which has upended many of the precepts that have guided international order for decades, join Professor Ngaire Woods, Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government, for a timely conversation with Professor Timothy Snyder, Chair in Modern European History, supported by the Temerty Endowment for Ukrainian Studies, at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.
Professor Snyder is an American historian specialising in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. He has written many books including his most recent publication On Freedom, in which he identifies the practices and attitudes—the habits of mind—that will allow us to design a government in which we and future generations can flourish, and in 2017, On Tyranny, Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how to preserve freedoms in the uncertain years to come.
“The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.” -Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
Professor Snyder will receive an honorary degree from the University of Oxford during this year’s Encaenia ceremony.
Please note, this event takes place in person only.
Date:
24 June 2025, 16:00
Venue:
Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details:
In person only
Speaker:
Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)
Organising department:
Blavatnik School of Government
Organiser:
Blavatnik School of Government (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
events@bsg.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/conversation-professor-timothy-snyder
Cost:
This event is free - please register at the above link to attend
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Anna Ulshofer
