We live at a unique time in modern history. Democracy is in retreat around the world, and authoritarian leaders are on the rise. There is an urgent need to understand what is happening – and also to find hope for a way forward.

Please join us on April 16 for the first lecture in the Democracy in Peril series featuring Marci Shore.

The Democracy in Peril speakers’ series – organized by the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of Manitoba, in partnership with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights – will bring a number of the world’s leading thinkers on authoritarianism to Winnipeg where they will each give a free public lecture at the Museum.

The first lecture in this series will feature Marci Shore who will present Thoughts from a post‐truth world. Shore holds a PhD from Stanford University and is the Chair in European Intellectual History at the Munk School at the University of Toronto. She is a prominent historian, author and public intellectual, who was previously a professor at Yale University. She left the U.S.A. in 2025, citing concerns over a “descent into fascism” in that country. She writes for major publications including The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The New York Times.

Following her keynote, Shore will join moderator Neil McArthur Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba for a conversation exploring themes of her presentation. A number of Shore’s books will also be for sale that evening.

Marci Shore began a position as Chair in European Intellectual History at the Munk School at the University of Toronto in 2025. She was previously professor of history at Yale University; she is also a regular visiting fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. In spring 2025, she guest curated, together with Oksana Forostyna, the Kyiv Book Arsenal with the theme “Everything is Translation.” She is the translator of Michał Głowiński's The Black Seasons and the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968, and The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe. A new edition of her book The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution was published in 2024. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for her forthcoming book about phenomenology in East‐Central Europe In Pursuit of a Certain Truth: The Lives and Loves of a Central European Idea.