WFPG members and friends are invited to the 2025 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Lecture on Thursday, October 30th, at 4:30 PM. This year's awardee, Timothy Snyder, will present his lecture, “Ukrainian Humanity: Rethinking How History Is Told.” Following the lecture, Snyder will connect his historical work to current debates in a conversation with WFPG’s Executive Director, Alexa Chopivsky. Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United States, Olga Stefanishyna, will offer remarks preceding the lecture, followed by a brief introduction by Angela Stent, Professor Emerita, Georgetown University and Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute.

A renowned author, historian, and scholar, Snyder specializes in Central & Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust, and the consequences of authoritarianism in twentieth-century Europe. His work has appeared in forty languages and has received a number of prizes, including the Emerson Prize in the Humanities, the Literature Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Václav Havel Foundation prize, the Foundation for Polish Science prize in the social sciences, the Leipzig Award for European Understanding, the Dutch Auschwitz Committee award, and the Hannah Arendt Prize in Political Thought. Snyder currently serves as the inaugural Chair in Modern European History at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, and the head of the academic advisory council for the Ukrainian History Global Initiative.

The Moynihan Prize, presented by the American Academy of Political and Social Science, is awarded annually to a leading policymaker, social scientist, or public intellectual whose career demonstrates the value of using evidence to inform public policy, improve public discourse, and advance the human condition. Named in honor of the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Prize carries forward his legacy of public service that is informed by intellectual engagement and scholarship.

The event will take place in downtown DC at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy, located at 125 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20001.

Please register by October 25, 2025 HERE.