Journalist and Author Michael Dobbs in Poland

6 May 2009

Michael Dobbs

From May 11 through May 14, 2009, journalist and author Michael Dobbs is visiting Warsaw, Gdańsk, and Kraków for a program organized by the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw and the U.S. Consulate in Kraków. Dobbs' visit is part of our celebrations of the 90th anniversary of U.S.-Polish diplomatic relations.  He will speak to the media and various audiences about his experiences as Washington Post bureau chief in Warsaw from 1980 to 1982, including as the first Western journalist at the Lenin shipyard in Gdańsk, and his more recent work, including his latest book One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War, which will be translated into Polish.  Dobbs is currently a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, where he is researching a book about the Yalta and Potsdam conferences and the origins of the Cold War. In Krakow Michael Dobbs will give two lectures to students of Papal University and Jagiellonian University.

May 13 - 11:45 at Papal University, Franciszkanska 1: "Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire".
May 14 - 9:00 at the Jagiellonian University New Campus, Lojasiewicza 4: "The End of Communism - Twenty Years Later from the Foreign Correspondent's Perspective".