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10/15/2025 | News release | Distributed by Public on 10/15/2025 15:37
‘The Truth about Freedom’: Third annual UCLA Barbra Streisand Lecture set for Oct. 23
On Oct. 23, the third annual UCLA Barbra Streisand Lecture will be held on campus in the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute at 6 p.m., followed by a reception.
The lecture, entitled "The Truth about Freedom: How Lies Oppress and How Facts Liberate," will be delivered by Timothy Snyder, a professor at the University of Toronto who specializes in the history of Central Europe, Ukraine, the Soviet Union and the Holocaust. He is the best-selling author of "On Freedom," which will be available for purchase and signature at the event, as well as "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
" We have a choice," said Snyder. "We can choose to wait and lose. We can choose controversy and convince ourselves that we are doing something useful. Or we can choose truth and win."
After the lecture, Snyder will participate in a panel discussion themed around global lessons on authoritarianism and resistance. Moderated by Jessica Cattelino, director of the UCLA Barbra Streisand Center, the discussion will also include UCLA's Ju Hui Judy Han, associate professor of gender studies, and Shannon Speed, director of the American Indian Studies Center and a professor of American Indian studies, anthropology and gender studies.
The UCLA Barbra Streisand Center was established in 2021 and made possible by the vision and generosity of Barbra Streisand. It will become the future Barbra Streisand Institute at UCLA, a forward-thinking institute dedicated to finding solutions to the most vital social issues.
The first UCLA Barbra Streisand Lecture focused on truth in the public sphere; the second centered on reproductive justice.
"There is no greater expert on governmental tyranny than Timothy Snyder. His lecture at my institute at UCLA is a great honor," Barbra Streisand noted. "It will amplify the alarm bell he has been banging on the tidal rise of authoritarianism in America right now."
To register to view the livestream for this year's lecture, click here.
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