The Alfred Landecker Holocaust Memorial Lecture is hosted by the Blavatnik School of Government each year to mark United Nations Holocaust Remembrance Day.

This year’s lecture, delivered by journalist and historian Anne Applebaum, is based on her new book Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World. The book offers an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organise to defeat them.

The lecture is chaired by Ngaire Woods, Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of Global Economic Governance at Oxford University. Anne’s lecture is followed by a moderated Q&A session and a drinks reception.

Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a Pulitzer-prize winning historian. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the SNF Agora Institute.

She was a Washington Post columnist for more than fifteen years and a member of the editorial board. She has also worked as the Foreign and Deputy Editor of the Spectator magazine in London, and as a columnist at Slate as well as the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs.

Anne Applebaum is also the author of Iron Curtain, Gulag: A History, and Red Famine, all of which have appeared in more than two dozen translations, including all major European languages.

About the lecture

The Alfred Landecker Memorial Lecture, held each year to mark United Nations Holocaust Remembrance Day, is delivered in partnership with the Alfred Landecker Foundation. The lecture is an integral part of the Alfred Landecker Programme at the Blavatnik School of Government, which investigates the rights and interests of minorities and vulnerable groups, exploring, in particular, the values and institutions that underpin democratic society.