17/03/2026
Join us and the LSE War Studies Society on Thursday, 19th of March for a Q&A speaker event with Dr Daniela Richterova & Dr Jill Kastner on exploring the history and evolution of covert action!
Dr. Daniela Richterova is a senior lecturer within the KCL Department of War Studies, being the current director of the MA in Intelligence and International Security as well as the current co-director of the King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence. Outside of Kings, she also teaches on the Cambridge Security Initiative’s specialist course in Intelligence Security and Intelligence (ISI). Prior to her academic career, she worked at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Dr. Richterova’s current academic speciality focuses on Cold War intelligence, having published “Watching the Jackals” in 2025 which focuses on Prague’s covert liaisons with Cold War terrorists and revolutionaries.
Dr Jill Kastner is a London-based historian and KCL guest lecturer + researcher whose academic focus is international relations from the Cold War to present day, with an emphasis on intelligence & subversive action both covert and overt. Having completed her PhD at Harvard under the supervision of two of the most important US historians of presidential history, Ernest May & Philip Zelikow, Dr. Kastner went on to live in Russia to further enhance her expertise in Russian intelligence, foreign relations and security. She has also published an incredibly well-received book on the history of subversion in 2023 titled “A Measure Short of War.”
📆Thursday, 19th March 2026
🕕 18:30 - 20:00
📍Strand Campus - sign up to receive the room number via email!
Event is only available to members of KCL War Studies Society and/or members of LSE War Studies Society. Sign up using the respective form link in our bios!
