

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Conversations with Richard Fidler and M. Gessen
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 10 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 am
- **Event Description**: In 2020 (an eventful year), award-winning journalist and New Yorker contributor M. Gessen released Surviving Autocracy, an astute and pragmatic guide to navigating the erosion of political norms and freedoms. 

Drawing on their Soviet childhood and years spent working as a journalist in Putin's Russia, Gessen offers a deep and incisive analysis of how language, media and other social fixtures are co-opted and dismantled by autocratic leaders like Trump – and why institutions won't save the day. 

Five years on, as the collapse of the liberal international order (not to mention the East Wing of the White House) accelerates, Gessen's work is essential to surviving what might come next. 

Join this leading thinker and commentator on our global authoritarian turn as they discuss what Trump 2.0 means for the future of democracy.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/hawthorne/conversations-with-richard-fidler-and-m-gessen/200029759970032
- **Event Categories**: art, fine-arts
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 11

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://bwf.org.au/2026/out-of-season-events-2026/m-gessen-surviving-autocracy?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=hawthorne-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Hawthorne
- **state**: QL
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: BRISBANE POWERHOUSE
- **lat**: -27.469050723883
- **long**: 153.05421932265
- **full address**: BRISBANE POWERHOUSE, 119 LAMINGTON STREET,Brisbane,QLD,Australia, Hawthorne

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Brisbane Writers Festival (https://allevents.in/org/brisbane-writers-festival/8118243)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 10 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** BRISBANE POWERHOUSE, 119 LAMINGTON STREET,Brisbane,QLD,Australia, Hawthorne
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Brisbane Writers Festival
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, fine-arts
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Conversations with Richard Fidler and M. Gessen ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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