Timothy Snyder\, acclaimed Yale historian and the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller \;On Tyranny\, visits the Bexley Public Library to discuss his latest book\, \;< em>On Freedom. \;On Freedom \;has been called\, "A&n bsp\;brilliant exploration of freedom&mdash\;what it is\, how it&rsquo\;s been misunderstood\, and why it&rsquo\;s our only chance for survival." Dr . Nicole Fleetwood\, the Paulette Goddard Professor of Media\, Culture\, a nd Communication at NYU\, will moderate the conversation.
\nThank yo u to The Book Loft for partnering with us on this program and for providin g book sales at this event.
\nFrom the publisher's page:
\nTim othy Snyder has been called &ldquo\;the leading interpreter of our dark ti mes.&rdquo\; As a historian\, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public intellectual\, he has turned that knowledge toward counsel and prediction\, working against auth oritarianism here and abroad. His book \;On Tyranny \;has inspired millions around the world to fight for freedom. Now\, in this to ur de force of political philosophy\, he helps us see exactly what we&rsqu o\;re fighting for.
\nFreedom is the great American commitment\, but as Snyder argues\, we have lost sight of what it means&mdash\;and this is leading us into crisis. Too many of us look at freedom as the absence of state power: We think we&rsquo\;re free if we can do and say as we please\ , and protect ourselves from government overreach. But true freedom isn&rs quo\;t so much freedom \;from \;as freedom \;to&mdash\;the fre edom to thrive\, to take risks for futures we choose by working together. Freedom is the value that makes all other values possible.
\nOn Freedom \;takes us on a thrilling intellectual journey. Drawing o n the work of philosophers and political dissidents\, conversations with c ontemporary thinkers\, and his own experiences coming of age in a time of American exceptionalism\, Snyder identifies the practices and attitudes&md ash\;the habits of mind&mdash\;that will allow us to design a government i n which we and future generations can flourish. We come to appreciate the importance of traditions (championed by the right) but also the role of in stitutions (the purview of the left). Intimate yet ambitious\, this book h elps forge a new consensus rooted in a politics of abundance\, generosity\ , and grace."
\nAbout the Author:
\nD
r. Timothy Snyder \;is the Richard C. Levin Professor of Hist
ory at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human S
ciences in Vienna. He speaks five and reads ten European languages. His ei
ght chief books are Nationalism\, Marxism\, and Modern Central Europe:
A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1998)\; The Reconstructio
n of Nations: Poland\, Ukraine\, Lithuania\, Belarus\, 1569-1999 (200
3)\; Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist&rsquo\;s Mission to L
iberate Soviet Ukraine (2005)\; The Red Prince: The Secret Lives
of a Habsburg Archduke (2008)\; Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler
and Stalin (2010)\, Thinking the Twentieth Century (with To
ny Judt\, 2012)\; Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (2015)\; On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
(2017)\; and The Road to Unfreedom: Russia\, Europe\, America (2
018). He has also co-edited three further books: The Wall Around the W
est: State Borders and Immigration Controls in Europe and North America (2001)\; Stalin and Europe: Terror\, War\, Domination (2013)\;
and The Balkans as Europe (2018). His essays are collected in
About the M oderator:
\nDr. Nicole \;R. \;Fleetwood \;is a writer\, curator\, and the Paulette Goddard Professor of
Media\, Culture\, and Communication at NYU. \;She is a 2021 MacArthur
Fellow and the author of \;Marking \;Time: Art in the Age of Mass
Incarceration \;(2020)\, \;winner of \;the National Book Criti
cs Award in Criticism\, the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize of the Am
erican Studies Association\, \;the \;Susanne M. Glasscock Humaniti
es Book Prize \;for Interdisciplinary Scholarship\, \;and both&nbs
p\;the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award in art history and the Frank Jewett
Mather Award in art criticism from the College Art Association. She is als
o curator of the touring exhibition \;Marking \;Time\, which debut
ed at MoMA PS1 in September 2020. \;Her other books are \;On Racia
l Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination \;(2015) and \;Troub
ling Vision: Performance\, Visuality\, and Blackness \;(2011). \;<
/p>\n She is also co-editor of \;Aperture \;magazine&rsquo\;s &l
dquo\;Prison Nation&rdquo\; issue\, focusing on photography&rsquo\;s role
in documenting mass incarceration\, and co-curator of Aperture&rsquo\;s to
uring exhibition of the same name.Fleetwood \;has co/curated exhibitio
ns and programs on art and mass incarceration at the Abroms-Engel Institut
e for the Visual Arts\, the Andrew Freedman Home\, Aperture Foundation\, B
rown University galleries\, Cleveland Public Library\, Eastern State Penit
entiary\, MoMA PS1\, Mural Arts Philadelphia\, the Schomburg Center/NYPL\,
and \;the Zimmerli Art Museum. \; Her work has been supported by
the Rockefeller Foundation&rsquo\;s Bellagio Center\, NYPL&rsquo\;s Cullm
an Center for Scholars and Writers\, ACLS\, Whiting Foundation\, the Art f
or Justice Fund\, Denniston Hill Residency\, Schomburg Center for Scholars
-in-Residence\, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, and the NEH. \;She is re
presented by Janklow &\; Nesbit and is finishing a nonfiction book titl
ed \;Between the River and Railroad Tracks \;that will be publishe
d by Little\, Brown. Registration required. Join us in per
son\, or live stream this \;program \;on \;BPL's YouTube channel. \nhttps://bexley.libnet.info/event/11425991
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