Political Executions And Secret Police
Lea Ypi In Conversation With Clare Wright
Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe, was almost impossible to visit, almost impossible to leave. It was a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. To Lea, it was home...
In this intimate conversation with the ever-brilliant Clare Wright, Lea discusses her bitingly-funny – and internationally celebrated – memoir, Free.
Presented in conjunction with The Australia Institute
Artist
LEA YPI is Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. A native of Albania, she studied Philosophy and then Literature at the University of Rome, La Sapienza, and was a Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. She is the recipient of many academic and literary prizes. Her last book, Free, was awarded the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2021 and the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2022, and shortlisted for many more. It has been sold in more than 25 languages. Lea contributes regularly to The Guardian, New Statesman, and Financial Times.
Moderator
PROFESSOR CLARE WRIGHT OAM is an award-winning historian, author, broadcaster and public commentator. Clare is currently Professor of History and Professor of Public Engagement at La Trobe University. She is the author of four works of history, including the best-selling The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka and You Daughters of Freedom, which comprise the first two instalments of her Democracy Trilogy. Clare hosts the ABC Radio National history series, Shooting the Past, and co-hosts the La Trobe University podcast Archive Fever.