This Sunday at 15:00 EST - Lea Ypi

P&P Live! Lea Ypi — Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History - in conversation with Kristen Ghodsee 

Upcoming Event - Sunday, January 23, 2022 - 3:00pm

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A reflection on "freedom" in a dramatic, beautifully written memoir of the end of Communism in the Balkans. 

Lea Ypi is professor of political theory at London School of Economics, and adjunct associate professor of philosophy at the Australian National University, with expertise in Marxism and critical theory. She lives and works in London.

Ypi will be joined in conversation with Kristen R. Ghodsee, an award-winning author and professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism and the host of A.K. 47, an episodic podcast on the life and works of the Russian revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai.

A screenshot of the print edition of El País Semanal

So this was a really big deal in Spain, since El País Semanal is a little bit like the New York Times Magazine, and it has generate a lot of renewed attention to the book in Spain and in Brazil where it finally appeared in Portuguese this last summer. Unfortunately, I don’t have an actual copy of the issue or even a pdf of the feature, so I had to take a screenshot using Penn’s subscription on Pressreader.

Two new interviews in Spain's La Vanguardia and El Salto (in Spanish and Catalan)

So I was in Barcelona for a discussion with Gemma Ruiz at the Finestres bookstore, and I met with many Spanish and Catalan journalists. The first two features published today.

¿Tienen las mujeres mejor sexo bajo el socialismo?

Kristen Ghodsee: “El capitalismo no respeta a las madres, pero nos necesita, ¿quién va a comprar iPhone si dejamos de tener bebés?”