Janine di Giovanni - A Life as a War Correspondent
Mon, Mar 21
|Center for American Studies
The American University of Rome, in partnership with the American Club of Rome, is honored to invite Janine di Giovanni to speak at the Center for American Studies in Rome on March 21st, 2022 at 7:00 PM.
Time & Location
Mar 21, 2022, 7:00 PM
Center for American Studies, Via Michelangelo Caetani, 32, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
About the event
Janine di Giovanni - A Life as a War Correspondent
Janine di Giovanni is a multi-award-winning journalist and author, and a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. For this event, she will be sharing the darkest sides of our recent history which, unfortunately, echoes what is happening on the ground in Ukraine as we speak.
Janine writes long format reportage, mainly about war and the politics of conflict. She was awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship and is a public speaker and a foreign policy analyst. In 2020, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her their highest non-fiction prize, the Blake Dodd.
Di Giovanni was a war reporter for nearly three decades, from the first Palestinian intifada in the early 1990s to the siege of Sarajevo; the Rwandan genocide; the brutal wars in Sierra Leone, Somalia, Ivory Coast, and Liberia to Chechnya, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. She reported…