Author Timothy Snyder

Mon, February 1, 2016
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Mershon Auditorium

Time: 4-5 p.m.
Event Host: Humanities Institute
Short Description: Timothy Snyder, author of the New York Times bestseller, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, and Bird White Housum Professor of History at Yale University, will discuss his new book. Book signing and reception to follow


PUBLIC HUMANITIES LECTURE SERIES AND THE LUEBECK LECTURE IN GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES present

Timothy Snyder
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

Timothy Snyder, author of the New York Times bestseller, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, and Bird White Housum Professor of History at Yale University, will discuss his new book.  Snyder is a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum and author of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, which received the literature award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hannah Arendt Prize and the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding.

This event is free and open to all. No RSVP required.

Cosponsored with Ohio State’s Melton Center for Jewish Studies, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Wexner Center for the Arts.