Addressing a range of contemporary and historical conflicts and daily struggles, this series of talks will explore how violence remains integral to the global political economy, with lasting effects on gendered hierarchies which often extend far beyond immediate war zones.

Addressing a range of contemporary and historical conflicts and daily struggles, this series of talks will explore how violence remains integral to the global political economy, with lasting effects on gendered hierarchies which often extend far beyond immediate war zones.

Addressing a range of contemporary and historical conflicts and daily struggles, this series of talks will explore how violence remains integral to the global political economy, with lasting effects on gendered hierarchies which often extend far beyond immediate war zones.

Addressing a range of contemporary and historical conflicts and daily struggles, this series of talks will explore how violence remains integral to the global political economy, with lasting effects on gendered hierarchies which often extend far beyond immediate war zones. 

Alexander Burns is the head of news at POLITICO. He has covered politics and power for more than a decade, including as national political correspondent for The New York Times during the 2020 presidential election. A graduate of Harvard College, he edited the Harvard Political Review. In 2022, he co-authored the bestselling book “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future.” Burns writes POLITICO’s Tomorrow column, which explores the future of politics and policy debates that cross national lines.

Peter Pomerantsev is a Soviet-born British journalist, author and TV producer. He is a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University and co-director of the Arena Initiative. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Peter grew up in the U.K. He is the author of several books about Russian and other authoritarian propaganda; the third of these, How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler, was published in 2024

Adriaan Basson is editor-in-chief of News24 and the author of four books on corruption and current affairs. He is the recipient of multiple awards for investigative journalism, including the CNN African Journalist of the Year for news and the Taco Kuiper award. Basson worked as an investigative journalist on the Mail & Guardian, where he was a founding member of amaBhungane, before moving to City Press as assistant editor. In 2013, he became editor of Beeld and in 2016 was appointed editor-in-chief of News24.

Hugo Alconada Mon is an Argentinian journalist specialised in Investigative Journalism about corruption in politics, money laundering and corporate fraud. He’s been woking for more than 20 years in La Nación, one of Argentina media outlet leaders, and he is part of the newspapers’ main editor team since 2009. Currently, he also writes for the Spanish journal El País. He is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and worked on the Panama Papers.

Andrew Bernard has been on the faculty at Tuck since 1999 and in 2017 was named the Kadas T’90 Distinguished Professor. Bernard is currently an Astor Visiting Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford.