Dark Shadows

Joanna Lillis, the author of the best-selling  Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan , has completed her successful tour of the USA following the book's North American publication on 30 January.  Dark Shadows arrives in the Big Apple! Here we publish links to videos of two events, so you can watch on catch-up if you missed them on the day. Joanna Lillis in conversation with Alex Cooley at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, New York Here’s a  link   to video of a  Q and A   with Alex Cooley about  Dark Shadows  at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University in New York, where you can hear how the book came about and learn more about the diverse, from-the-ground reportage that it contains, if you missed the event on the day.  Kazakhstan’s Quest for Identity at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University And here’s a   link   to the author’s   presentation...

Joanna Lillis has been interviewed on  talkRADIO   about  Dark Shadows,  which the presenter of the station’s Late Late Early Early Show, Paul Ross described as a “jaw-droppingly good” book that is both “informative” and “heart-breaking”– so if you haven’t got your copy, buy it now!  Tell us all about Dark Shadows... You can tune in to the interview at this   link – make sure you access the 26 th February episode, click on the 0300-0330 slot and the interview with the author is 14 minutes in.

Joanna Lillis, the author of the best-selling Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan , will be embarking of a tour of the USA following the book's North American publication on 30 January. Dark Shadows spotted at Niagara Falls, Canadian side. The tour begins in Tucson, Arizona on February 4, when Joanna Lillis will address students from the University of Arizona on Building a Career in Journalism Abroad at 12.00pm in the UA book store. The tour arrives in Washington DC on February 6. On that day, the author will be addressing the RAND Corporation  (this is a private event) . On February 7, Joanna Lillis will be  speaking at an event hosted by George Washington University's Central Asia Program, where she will present  Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan . It will be held in the  Voesar Conference Room, Suite 412 and it starts at 4.00pm (this event is open to all).  On February 8, she will be speaking at a round table on...

Kazakhstan's troubled 20th century history was in the spotlight when Joanna Lillis, author of Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan, was interviewed for Nick Shepley's excellent Explaining History  podcast. Click here to tune into the podcast.

Tune in to Talk Radio Europe on Monday, 10 December to hear Joanna Lillis, author of Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan, interviewed on Let's Talk with Giles Brown. Joanna will be live on air at 10.30 GMT (16.30 Almaty Time) to talk about her book and life in Kazakhstan.

This December's copy of History Today features an article, Kazakhstan's Bloody December , by Joanna Lillis, author of Dark Shadows:Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan, that looks back at 1986's Zheltoksan (December in Kazakh) demonstrations in what was then Alma-Ata (present-day Almaty) in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Kazakhstan). The article takes an in-depth look at the events that shook the Soviet Union three decades ago. The anniversary of the demonstrations is on 16 December, which symbolically became Kazakhstan's independence day from the Soviet Union, which it left in 1991. To read more about this topic, dig into your copy of Dark Shadows.

The Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan roadshow moves on to the University of Oxford tomorrow, 28 November, with the author Joanna Lillis giving a talk about her book at New College in lecture room 4 from 17.00 to 18.30. The talk has been organised by  The Oxford Seminar for the Caucasus and Central Asia (TOSCCA) and Oxford Brookes University and  will bring together  Edmund Herzig (Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies, University of Oxford),  Dr.  Saïpira Fürstenberg  (Lecturer in Politics, Oxford Brookes University), Dr.  Alexander Morrison  (Fellow & Tutor in History, University of Oxford) and   Sofya Omarova  (Marie Curie fellow, Oxford Brookes University) to  discuss  Dark Shadows. If you're in Oxford, we hope to see you there!