The fall 2021 Franke Lectures have been organized in conjunction with the Yale College seminar “Mass Incarceration in the Soviet Union and the United States ” taught by Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley
- Anne Applebaum, staff writer for The Atlantic and Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, The Gulag: What We Know Now and Why It Matters
- Khalil Muhammad, Harvard Kennedy School, The Origins and Durability of Anti-Black Racial Criminalization in the United States
- Eric Karpeles, writer, translator, and painter, Józef Czapski: Facing the Void