October 4 | Live podcast: Dissent Lab with Sergei Lebedev + Havel 90 Festival
Updated: Sep 24
Dissent Lab, our new series featuring dissidents from around the world. This series is designed to hear from those who are struggling against authoritarians and authoritarianism in the spirit of Vaclav Havel.
The second discussion features Sergei Lebedev, an acclaimed Russian writer and journalist whose work explores the legacy of Soviet repression, historical memory, and the lasting impact of totalitarianism in contemporary Russia.
Sergei Lebedev was born in Moscow in 1981 and worked for seven years on geological expeditions in northern Russia and Central Asia. Lebedev is a poet, essayist, and journalist. His literary works—six of them translated into English by Antonina W. Bouis for New Vessel Press, have received great acclaim. The New York Review of Books has hailed Lebedev as “the best of Russia’s younger generation of writers.” He has been awarded the Prix Montluc Résistance et Liberté and currently lives in Germany.
Copies of Sergei Lebedev’s books will be available for purchase at the event, followed by an opportunity to have them signed by the author.
Lebedev will be interviewed at the Bohemian National Hall screening room by U.S. journalist Peter Green, a former New York Times correspondent who covered the Velvet Revolution and the birth of the Czech Republic.
October 4 | Havel 90 Festival
Bohemian National Hall, New York
11:00 AM | Live Podcast: Dissent Lab with Sergei LebedevA live recording of the Vaclav Havel Center podcast with Russian writer and journalist Sergei Lebedev, exploring historical memory, authoritarianism, and personal responsibility.
3:00 PM | Film: Jan Švankmajer Shorts SeriesFeaturing Dimensions of Dialogue, Darkness, Light, Darkness, The Garden, and The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia.
