7:00 PM, Wednesday, December 6 The Writer’s Conscience: Remembering Anna Politkovskaya and Russia’s Forgotten War (reading & discussion)

On October 7, 2006, Russian journalist and author Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in a contract killing while completing an article about on torture and human rights abuses in Chechnya.  This evening features readings from Politkovskaya’s works and a conversation about the costs of an ongoing but forgotten war.  Participants include Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation; journalist and author Kati Marton; Dana Priest Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Washington Post; David Remnick, writer and New Yorker editor, and special guests Musa Klebnikov (widow of murdered Russian magazine editor Paul Klebnikov) and Katya Sokirianskaia (of the “Memorial” Human Rights Center). Presented by the Center for the Humanities, and co-sponsored by the PEN American Center and the Committee to Protect Journalists.  Free, for information call 212-817-2005.

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