Join us on December 14th at 10am ET, for a webinar co-sponsored with the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics. FASPE Executive Director Thorsten Wagner will speak with Timothy Snyder, noted historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust, and author of eight groundbreaking books including #1 New York Times Bestseller On Tyranny. They will discuss Professor Snyder’s latest book, Our Malady, an impassioned condemnation of commercial medicine, America’s coronavirus response, and an urgent call to rethink the connection between health and freedom.

“The word freedom is hypocritical when spoken by the people who create the conditions that leave us sick and powerless. If our federal government and our commercial medicine make us unhealthy, they are making us unfree.”

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. 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. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

The Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) challenges graduate students and future leaders to recognize and confront their ethical responsibilities as professionals by analyzing the decisions and actions of Nazi-era professionals. FASPE offers programs for graduate students and professionals, integrating history and contemporary ethical issues.

This is the second event in our co-sponsorship with FASPE. Our first was a conversation with three alumni of both FASPE and the IGL, as well as Talia Weiss, a new ally in our concern of science, technology, ethics, and international security.