Friday, April 28, 2023 12pm to 1:30pm
About this Event
1623 Melrose Place, Knoxville, TN 37996
Please join us for the International Reporting Symposium: War in Ukraine in the International House's Great Room at noon with PBS New Hour's foreign affairs and defense correspondent and keynote speaker Nick Shifrin.
Award-winning journalist Nick Schifrin is the foreign affairs and defense correspondent for PBS NewsHour, based in Washington, D.C. He is part of the team from the NewsHour that won the 2023 duPont-Columbia Award for its extensive coverage of the war in Ukraine and the aftermath of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.
Schifrin will share insights about reporting from the front lines and across Ukraine for the NewsHour. Shifrin will also lead a discussion about the political, social, and economic implications of the war with leading scholars from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville whose research focuses on Ukraine, Russia, and Eastern Europe