June 5, 2019
6.30 pm
University of Washington
April 26, 2019
"The Hijacking of the Russian Mind"
Keynote address
April 11, 2019,
5.30 pm,
110 The Embarcadero
"Putin's Quest for Greatness"
The League of Women Voters,
Piedmont Community Hall, Piedmont, CA
December 7, 2018, 11 am
Keynote Address, UC Berkeley OLLI
September 9, 2018
"Russian American Literature in Context"--Alley Cat Book Store, San Francisco
With Anthony Marra, Olga Zilberbourg
February 25, 2017
Oakland Book Festival
"The Poet and the Tsar: Art and Freedom in Russia"
"Working in Silicon Valley"
Ellen Pao and Y-Vonne Hutchinson
May 22, 2016
Oakland Book Festival
"The Genuius of the Metropolis"
With Vikram Chandra, Leo Hollis and Gary Kamia
May, 2015
Panels:"War and Fiction"
With Anthony Marra, Mark Danner and Nayomi Munaweera
