The Ida Cordelia Beam visiting professorships are a source of intellectual stimulation for students and faculty, and provide an opportunity to bring new perspectives in knowledge and teaching to our campus.
The Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professorships Program was established in 1978-79 with the income from a bequest to the University by the late Ida Cordelia Beam of Vinton. Past visits by distinguished teachers and scholars from the United States and abroad greatly enrich our instructional and research programs. He is researching a family history of nationalism and finishing a philosophical book about freedom. His words are quoted in political demonstrations around the world, most recently in Hong Kong. His books have inspired poster campaigns and exhibitions, films, sculpture, a punk rock song, a rap song, a play, and an opera. His work has appeared in forty languages and has received a number of prizes. Snyder is a prolific author, whose recent books include: Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (2015) On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017) The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (2018) and Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary (2020). He speaks five and reads ten European languages. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. On Wednesday, December 1, 2021, at 5 p.m., International Programs, the Department of French and Italian, the European Studies Group, and the Division of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures hosted a lecture from Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor Timothy Snyder, professor of history from Yale University, entitled "History and Freedom: The Past, Present, and Future of Tyranny."įree and open to the public, this event was also broadcast live on International Programs' Facebook page. UI International Travel Policy for Students.Academic Centers, Programs, and Networks.Student, Staff, and Faculty Recognition.
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Tim snyder on tyranny series#
He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s contemporary history series The Long View and has also written seven books. He writes a weekly column for The Guardian, where he is executive editor, Opinion. Jonathan Freedland is an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster. His work has received the Hannah Arendt Prize, the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding, and an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Timothy Snyder is the Levin Professor of History at Yale University and the author of The Road to Unfreedom, On Tyranny, Black Earth, and Bloodlands. The winner of the Hannah Arendt Prize, the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Literature Award discusses his guide to surviving and resisting America’s arc toward authoritarianism, examining the darkest moments in recent history.ĭescribed as ‘a stunning reminder of the myriad, insidious forms oppression takes’ by Star Wars director JJ Abrams and ‘vastly important, deeply affecting, powerful, magnificent’ by The Ratline author Philippe Sands, this is a don’t-miss discussion of a must-read book.Īfter first broadcast this stream will be available to watch on demand until Thu 31 Mar. Levin Professor of History at Yale Timothy Snyder joins us live from the US following the publication of a new graphic edition, with illustrations by Nora Krug, of his New York Times No.1 bestseller On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century. Yale history professor Timothy Synder with his 20 lessons from the 20th Century.
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