REMINDER: Bette's Happy Hour with Zarina Zabrisky, Slobodan Markovich & Additional Global Guests

War correspondent and author Zarina Zabrisky will be joining us on Tues., 2/4, along with Slobodan Markovich, a Serbian history professor + other special guests.

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Thank you to everyone who showed up on Tuesday for our meeting with such Bette members as Monique Camarra, Dietmar Pichler, Alex Alvarova, and Sid White, each updating us on important geopolitical events from the EU, Georgia, and beyond.

This week on Tuesday, at 9 am Pacific time/noon Eastern, war correspondent Zarina Zabrisky will be giving us updates from Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and Germany. We will also be joined by Serbian history professor Slobodan Markovich from the University of Belgrade. Plus, additional guests from the US and Europe.

Zabrisky should be familiar to Bette members: she is an American correspondent, who was born in the Soviet Union and has been reporting from Ukraine since 2022. She is also an author and poet and has appeared on these pages dozens of times and often joins us in the squares. I do urge you to check out my friend Greg Olear’s recent interview with her, along with Greg’s beautiful poem.

Sunday Pages: "Redux"

Markovich is new to our community, and came highly recommended from our friend Marci Shore. Along with teaching at Belgrade University in the Political Science department, he is also the Head of the Centre for British Studies in Belgrade. His deals with British-Balkan relations and relations between Europe and Serbia in the last two centuries, with issues of democratisation of South-East Europe, history of European pessimism, and with psychoanalytic anthropology. He is the head of the project Cultural Transfer Europe-Serbia from the 19^th to the 21^st Centuries. In 2023, he was Krzysztof Michalski Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. Since 2024 he has been a member of the Academy of Europe – Academia Europaea.

Our Happy Hours began more than two years ago as an ironically named weekly wellness checkin for global newsies and has evolved to include important information from around the world. I am very grateful to those of you who show up week after week, and please note: this week we meet at 9 am Pacific, so please check your time zones, as we are now reaching people in 81 countries.

I am also grateful to those of you who showed up for our Sunday Speakeasy data security briefing last week. I sent the PDF for Bette members that documented some of the subjects we touched on in the this post.

If you haven’t already read it, please review my recent Hot Type column. It’s important to learn from the countries that are fighting Russian aggression, rather than surrendering:

Poland Fights Back Against 'The End of the World' - My Latest ‘Hot Type’ Column in Byline

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In solidarity, reality, truth, and unity,

Heidi xo

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Related:

ICYMI: Active Measures 101 with Zarina Zabrisky — RadPod Ep83 — An Urgent PowerPoint

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