Foreign correspondents Jon Lee Anderson of The New Yorker and Helene Cooper of The New York Times will discuss covering war in two free public talks at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Foreign correspondents Jon Lee Anderson of The New Yorker and Helene Cooper of The New York Times will discuss covering war in two free public talks at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Both journalists will share reporting stories in a new “War Stories” speaker series sponsored by the curriculum in global studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Anderson will speak Feb. 3 at 5:30 p.m. in Carroll Hall. Besides discussing his reporting from war-torn countries, he will speak about the long-term effects of violence shaping global interactions today.
Cooper, a White House correspondent, will speak March 22 at 5:30 p.m. in the FedEx Global Education Center. An alumna of the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Cooper began her career covering trade, politics, race and foreign policy. She has reported from war-torn regions for The Wall Street Journal.
Anderson covered Latin America for news outlets including Time, Harper’s, The Nation and Life. He has reported from war zones in Somalia, Liberia, Venezuela and the Middle East. Anderson wrote the best-selling biography “Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life” (1997), about the Cuban revolutionary.
Cooper edited a collection of work by her Wall Street Journal colleague Daniel Pearl, who was murdered by Al Qaeda in 2002. Her best-selling memoir, “The House at Sugar Beach,” traces her trajectory from privileged child to refugee to American journalist while examining the violence that troubles her homeland of Liberia.
“Violent conflict remains the chief challenge to our world,” said Andrew Reynolds, Ph.D., global studies chair and associate professor of political science. “The curriculum’s ‘War Stories’ series will bring to campus leading writers and thinkers who will help us understand both the causes and consequences of war.”
Photos: Anderson: http://uncnews.unc.edu/images/stories/news/humanities/2011/anderson_jonleeauthor1.jpg
Cooper: http://uncnews.unc.edu/images/stories/news/humanities/2011/cooper_helene.jpg
Global studies contact: Lara Markstein, (919) 962-5442, laram@email.unc.edu
College of Arts and Sciences contact: Kim Spurr, (919) 962-4093, spurrk@email.unc.edu