Join us for an evening of discussion with Times opinion columnist M. Gessen, author of eleven critically acclaimed books, host of "The Idiot" podcast, and George Polk award winner.

A conversation with the historian Nicole Eaton, a professor of history at Boston College, on her new book, German Blood, Slavid Soil.

A converastion with Bradley Gorski, a professor of literature at Georgetown University, and Yasha Klots, a professor of literature at Hunter College, on the literary scene in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union.

A conversation with Dmitri Alperovitch about his recent book, World on the Brink, exploring the roots of the war in Ukraine through a global lens, linking the war in Europe to scenarios of a possible invasion of Taiwan.

A conversation with historian Ekaterina Klimenko, of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, on the uses of medievail history in Russian politics and Russian foreign policy. Alicja Curanovic, of the University of Warsaw, will serve as a respondent.

A conversation with Patrick Travers, former advisor to the Canadian Prime Minister, on the origins of the war, on policy choices made by Canada and its allies and on assessments of Russia's motivations for its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

A conversation with Timothy Snyder, a professor at the University of Toronto, and author of many pioneering books on the history of Eastern and Central Europe. This conversation focuses on the status of Ukraine in Europe, on the evolution of Russian foreign policy under President Vladimir Putin and the reasons for Russia's invasion of Ukraine first in 2014 and then, on a much larger scale, in 2022.