I understand, Tim, that you do your own narration for your audiobooks. If you have not had a chance to pick it up, I highly recommend you do so, including immediately after the event, or you can even listen to it on Audible. I would like to start by just saying something about the book, which I have in my hand right here. SMITA NARULA: Thank you so much, Jim, and good evening, everyone. Without further ado, I turn it over to the two of you. He will be in conversation with Smita Narula, who is a distinguished lecturer at Hunter College and the director of the Human Rights Program at Roosevelt House. We are very happy to have with us tonight Professor Timothy Snyder, who is the Levin Professor of History at Yale and a permanent fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. I should also note that this event is supported by Foreign Affairs as are all of our events at BGIA, and you can go to our website and find out about all the many other great things we are doing, events and otherwise. We are so happy to be back here, and we want to thank Joel Rosenthal, the president of the Carnegie Council, and all of the staff here who are such wonderful partners with us and hosts for these great events. In his memory we do these lectures, and once every semester we do them in partnership with the Carnegie Council. It is the James Clarke Chace Memorial Lecture Series, named after James Chace, who was the editor of the World Policy Journal and Foreign Affairs and was a Bard professor and the founder of the BGIA program. We have the students here who are interning at various organizations around the city and taking Bard College courses in international affairs. In this program, we have students who come here to New York City every semester and during the summers. I am Jim Ketterer, and I am the director of the Bard Globalization and International Affairs (BGIA) program. Welcome to the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. This event is part of the James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series, co-sponsored by the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program and Foreign Affairs.

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