Public engagements

Chair and organizer of panel discussion on Russia’s war crimes against Ukraine and responsibility for post-war reconstruction, with distinguished speakers Olga Onuch, Mariia Zolkina, Oleksandra Matviichuk, Olga Ayvazovska, Steven Seegel, and Bill Browder. Podcast available here.

Discussant with Vladislav Zubok, at the 2023 LSE Festival of Ideas, of Adam Curtis’s BAFTA-nominated BBC series, Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone. The series documents what it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy, based on preserved and digitised footage from BBC archives and forgotten or never shown scenes from Soviet life and life in post-Soviet states. Podcast and video available here.

Tomila Lankina and Peter Trubowitz in conversation with Marie Yovanovitch, former US ambassador to Ukraine, who discusses her best-selling memoir, Russia’s war on Ukraine, and what the West needs to do next. Podcast and video available here.

In conversation with award-winning author Elif Shafak. How can people move on from conflict and trauma, and overcome seemingly unbridgeable divides or intractable circumstances? In her latest novel, award-winning author Elif Shafak explores belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal through a story of two teenagers in 1970s Cyprus, from opposite sides of a divided land who seek refuge in a taverna to forget the sorrows of the world outside. Podcast and video available here.

“Summer” Workshop in the Economic History and Historical Political Economy of Russia at the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago in December 2021