Masha Gessen: Some Ideas for Talking About Migration

Tickets are AVAILABLE! Tickets available by phone (617.496.2222) and online (for a fee) before 2:00pm. After 2:00pm, tickets will be available in person at Paine Hall.

Please note outside photography is not permitted.

Introductory Remarks

Stephanie Sandler
Ernest E. Monrad Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Respondent

Samuel Moyn
Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School 

About the Tanner Lecturer

Masha Gessen is the author of the National Book Award-winning The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia as well as The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy, and several other books. A staff writer at the New Yorker and the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship, Gessen teaches at Amherst College, and lives in New York City.

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How Do We Talk About Migration?

Our current ways of thinking, telling stories, and creating policy are inadequate for the task of addressing the current worldwide crisis of human displacement. What assumptions need to be questioned, and what questions need to be reframed to make possible a meaningful and productive conversation about migration. 

Tickets

Admission is free. Tickets required. Limit of 2 tickets per person. Tickets valid until 3:15PM. Tickets available by phone and online (for a fee) and in person at the Harvard Box Office – Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge beginning Wednesday, March 27th. A limited number of same-day tickets may become available. They will be distributed on a first come, first-served to those waiting on line outside Paine Hall at the Music Building, 3 Oxford Street, immediately prior to the lecture.