Perspectives on War
Perspectives on War
School of Modern Languages and Cultures (German)
Date: Friday 17 November 2023
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Venue: Goethe Institut Glasgow
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Sabine Adler, Dr Joanna Szostek
Website: www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/sta/gla.html
PERSPECTIVES ON WAR: EVENT ON 17TH NOVEMBER, 3pm-4.30pm
This event will be hosted by the Goethe Institut, Glasgow, on 17th November, starting at 3pm. Entry is free, but please visit the Goethe Institut’s website to register via Eventbrite: https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ver.cfm?event_id=25162559&wt_nl=glaknl1123
Dr Joanna Szostek in conversation with Sabine Adler
Join us for a talk by German journalist and author Sabine Adler, who will discuss her work as a journalist, and her latest books on Ukraine and Russia, with senior lecturer Joanna Szostek, University of Glasgow.
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the subsequent war shook Western European beliefs and certainties in an unprecedented way. The discussion will explore reasons behind current developments in both countries, and future perspectives. This war is also being waged as a war of information, in a “post truth” era that enables undemocratic actors to spin events beyond recognition, challenging a rational and fact-based discussion of events. In this context, the work of researchers and journalists is of special value to find pathways through competing stories and evaluate the facts which will eventually become official history. Join us for a discussion as we explore the challenges and opportunities in these fields.
Sabine Adler is an author and works as a journalist for Deutschlandfunk. Over the last several years, she has been a correspondent in Moscow, director of the capital studio in Berlin, and a correspondent at studio Warsaw with a focus on Poland, Belarus, the Baltic states, and Ukraine. She reported on the Maidan Protests and about Russia’s war on Ukraine. For her work, she was honoured as “Political Journalist of the Year”. Her latest book, “Ukraine and Its Western Allies: Germanyʼs Failure and the Necessary Lessons for the Future”, was published by Chr. Links Verlag in 2022. In February 2024, her next book: “Russia’s Future: A Country Between War and Self-Destruction” (“Was wird aus Russland - Über eine Nation zwischen Krieg und Selbstzerstörung”) will be published.
Dr Joanna Szostek joined the University of Glasgow as lecturer in September 2018, and is now a senior lecturer in Political Communication, as well as an associate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs. Her research focuses mainly on the media's role in relations between states, and in the projection and reception of strategic narratives, the challenge of autocracies exerting influence on democratic states via the media, and the development of media and civil society in weak or unconsolidated democracies, with a research focus in Ukraine and Russia. She holds a doctorate in Politics from the University of Oxford and her professional experience includes several years at the BBC and many years of living and working in Russia and Ukraine.