Virtual: Roger Cohen, ‘The Future of Europe: An American Perspective’

Note: This event was originally scheduled for March 17, and has been rescheduled for September 29, 2020 as a virtual event.

Roger Cohen joined The New York Times in 1990. He was a foreign correspondent for more than a decade before becoming acting foreign editor on September 11, 2001, and foreign editor six months later. Since 2004, he has written a column for The International New York Times, formerly known as The International Herald Tribune. In 2009 he was named a columnist of The New York Times, and his columns appear every Wednesday and Saturday.

Cohen has written ‘Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo’, an account of the wars of Yugoslavia’s destruction, and ‘Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis’ Final Gamble’. He has also co-written a biography of Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, ‘In the Eye of the Storm’. His family memoir, ‘The Girl From Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family’, was published in January 2015. Raised in South Africa and England, he is a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Read Cohen’s op-ed on Brexit as a preview.

This lecture is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. The event is part of the European Alternative lecture series organized by Professor Konrad Jarausch through the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence housed at the UNC Center for European Studies.

Registration is required for this event.