Just announced: Me in conversation with Angela Saini online for the How To Academy →
In conversation with the brilliant and insightful, Rebecca Traister
Last night in the Harvard Book Store.
Photos from the Luddington Library event
So grateful to Luddington Library for allowing me the opportunity to text run my new book lecture in front of a live audience.








Scenes from my May 24th book event with Joan Wallach Scott at the Institute for Advanced Study
Thanks very much to Andrea Kane for her lovely photographs!














P&P Live! Kristen Ghodsee | EVERYDAY UTOPIA w/ Dr. Julia Alekseyeva →
Watch my book event at Politics and Prose with the wonderful Isa Salazar and Juliet Alekseyeva.
In conversation with Arwa Mahdawi at the Philadelphia Free Library →
Podcast from my event at the Philadelphia Free Library →
This was such a great conversation with the brilliant Arwa Mahdawi! I was very nervous at first, but then her thoughtful questions really put me at ease.
My first book event for Everyday Utopia at NYU
So thrilled to have had my very first book event for the Women and Gender History Luncheon at NYU.
Video of my book talk at the People's Forum →
Event at the People's Forum on October 25th →
Amazing time at the inaugural Maine Lit Fest!
I had such a wonderful time in Portland, Maine at the inaugural Maine Lit Fest. I got to see Brandon Taylor in conversation with Lily King and Susan Conley interviewing Keri Arsenault and the ever-amazing Rebecca Traister.
The video from my event at City Lights with Professor Page Herrlinger →
City Lights Live!
My Talk on East European Typewriters on YouTube →
This is my first public presentation on my project dealing with the history and material culture of East European typewriters.
If you are in Frankfurt on June 10
I am giving a lecture at about Alexandra Kollontai at the University of Frankfurt: “How to Organize Social Reproduction? Feminist Lessons from Alexandra Kollontai“ Get more info here
A photo from my lecture yesterday at Sofia University
Caught me while I was shutting off the sound on my phone
Two videos from recent events
Here are two videos from a talk I gave with Mitchell Orenstein for the Universität zu Köln back in December and last week’s bookstore event with Lea Ypi.
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
CLICK HERE to register for this Virtual event!
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.
I spent a lovely hour in Siberia this morning
Well, at least virtually. I was the guest on a panel at the Krasnoyarsk Book Fair.
A conversation (in English) from Studio Solidaire of the Belgium Worker's Party →
This conversation with Iman Ben Madkhour from September 11, 2021 was just uploaded to YouTube: Kristen Ghodsee at Manifiesta 2021