#  Masha Gessen: Some Ideas for Talking About Migration 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 4, 2019** 

 03:30PM - 03:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Paine Hall, Music Building, 3 Oxford St**  



 

 



 

 **Tickets are AVAILABLE! Tickets available by phone (617.496.2222) and [online](https://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=tanner) (for a fee) before 2:00pm. After 2:00pm, tickets will be available in person at [Paine Hall](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Music%20Building,%203%20Kirkland%20St,%20Cambridge,%20MA%2002138/@42.376765,-71.1194116,807m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e3774162c720e5:0xedc375c8cb1ed03c!8m2!3d42.376765!4d-71.1172229?hl=en).**

 *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.

 For more information on this speaker please visit​ ​[www.prhspeakers.com](http://www.prhspeakers.com/)​

###  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](https://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=tanner) (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.



 

 



 

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