Fighting for truth in the post-truth era: talk with Peter Pomerantsev & David Patrikarakos
Date and time:
Tuesday 24 September, 2019
19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Ukrainian Institute London
79 Holland Park
London
W11 3SW
In This is not propaganda, Peter Pomerantsev travels far and wide to record accounts of media activists and info warriors to dissect the era of post-truth we live in and the impact it has on reality. Peter goes back to Cold War realities and tracing the stories of his youth, growing up in a family of dissidents, kicked out of Soviet Ukraine.
Peter’s book will be unveiled alongside the War in 140 Characters: How Social Media is reshaping the conflict in the 21st Century by David Patrikarakos, another author and media expert. In War in 140 Characters: How Social Media is reshaping the conflict in the 21st Century, David draws his lessons on the cases drawn from the Russian-Ukrainian and Israeli-Gaza conflicts.
The event will be moderated by author, journalist and historian Anna Reid.
This event will be held in English.
£10 standard / £7 concessions
Speaker
Peter Pomerantsev
Peter Pomerantsev is an author, journalist and director of the Arena Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, which recently published the report ‘From Memory Wars to a Common Future: Overcoming Polarisation in Ukraine’. The Arena Initiative is dedicated to overcoming the challenges of polarisation and disinformation through sociological and media research projects involving journalists, academics and data scientists. Peter is the author of the award-winning book on Russian propaganda Nothing is True and Everything is Possible (2015, Faber & Faber) and This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (2019, Faber & Faber).
Speaker
David Patrikarakos
David Patrikarakos is a journalist, author and TV producer, best known for his acclaimed book War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century. He is also a contributing editor at the Daily Beast and a contributing writer at Politico Europe. In 2014 he was appointed a Poynter Fellow at Yale University and is currently a Non-Resident Fellow in the School of Iranian Studies, at the University of St Andrews.
