Former NPR Moscow Bureau Chief, Lawrence Sheets, will give a presentation on "Russia and Ukraine: A View from the Ground." Disinformation is rampant in today's media-soaked culture. Come learn what a veteran observer on the ground has to say about one of the great hot spots of the contemporary world, Thursday, November 6th, FIVE p.m. at Carey Auditorium in Notre Dame's Hesburgh Library. Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and 88.1 WVPE. For more information, visit nanovic.nd.edu/sheets.
Sheets is field expert and project director for theInternational Crisis Group, a Brussels-based NGO that advises the UN, World Bank, and various national governments. He has extensive experience as a journalist in central Asia, Russia, and eastern Europe. In the early 2000s, he was Moscow Bureau Chief for NPR. In 2011 he authored Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse.
Parking is available in the lot at the corner of Bulla and Twyckenham. A campus shuttle runs every ten minutes and will drop you off in front of the Hesburgh Library. We suggest you arrive in the parking lot no later than 4:35 p.m. to get to the lecture hall and get seated. The shuttle will return you to the parking lot after the lecture until 6:45 p.m