Best-selling author, journalist and documentary filmmaker Sebastian Junger, whose first book, “The Perfect Storm,” became a major motion picture, shared his experiences as a war correspondent with an MTSU audience this spring. Junger’s lecture, “Dispatches from War: Stories from the Front Lines of History,” touched on the nobility and courage of those who fight, and are caught up in the fighting, as well as the horror, and focused heavily on his Academy Award-nominated documentary, “Restrepo.”
Most people who have career epiphanies go back to school or start their own businesses. Sebastian Junger went to war. After a workplace accident as a “climber” for a tree-services company, the man who would become a best-selling author, journalist and documentary filmmaker said he had a revelation. “I had…
Anti-Genocide activist and humanitarian Carl Wilkens, a Rwanda Civil War Survivor, urged MTSU students to enter a world 'Outside My Shoes.' Wilkens, the only American who chose to stay in Rwanda when the country's civil war erupted in April 1994, address the MTSU audience, March 28, in the State Farm…
An award-winning author and professor of history and Slavic studies will explain the conflict between Ukraine and Russia Monday, Oct. 9, at Middle Tennessee State University’s free Strickland Visiting Scholar Lecture Series. Dr. Serhy Yekelchyk A professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Serhy Yekelchyk is a Ukrainian…
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