On Thursday, Feb. 25, The University of Texas at Austin's Intelligence Studies Project, Global Internet Media and (Dis)Information (GIMI) Cluster, Strauss Center for International Security and Law's Brumley Next Generation Fellows Program, and Clements Center for National Security will host Nina Jankowicz for a virtual talk on her recently released book, How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict. The talk will be moderated by Dr. Kiril Avramov, assistant professor in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies and associate of the GIMI research initiative for UT-Austin's Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. Please join us from 12:15 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. CT. Virtual doors open at noon CT.
Registration is required. Please note: you must have a Zoom account and login to Zoom with the same email address you used to register.
Biography
Nina Jankowicz studies the intersection of democracy and technology in Central and Eastern Europe. She has advised the Ukrainian government on strategic communications under the auspices of a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship. Her writing has been published by the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic and others. She is a frequent television and radio commentator on disinformation and Russian and Eastern European affairs. Prior to her Fulbright grant in Ukraine, Jankowicz managed democracy assistance programs to Russia and Belarus at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. She received her M.A. in Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, and her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College.