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 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.
The 2026 Alfred Landecker Memorial Lecture is based on Anne Applebaum's 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 what can be done to counter them.
Date and time: 27 January 2026, 5:30–7:00 pm (GMT)
Location: Blavatnik School of Government and online
Admission: free
Registration: here.
The lecture will be followed by a discussion and a reception.
About the Alfred Landecker Memorial Lecture
The Alfred Landecker Memorial Lecture, held annually by the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, takes place on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The lecture is a core element of our support at the University of Oxford, which focuses on the protection of democratic values, institutions, and good governance.