Thursday in Residence with Kenneth R. Rosen
War at the Edge of the World
© D.R
Event completed
Free, under reservation
Event in English
Every first Thursday of each month*, from 7 to 8 pm, a writer in residence opens a window on his or her work, universe and motives, in a free form of intervention. An hour of carte blanche to share, followed by an aperitif.
*except exceptions
Land of the North Wind, which the writer Kenneth R. Rosen will work on while in residence at the Jan Michalski Foundation, leads to the circumpolar north to chronicle the dual impacts of climate change and the new Cold War.
In the style of Ryszard Kapuściński’s The Shadow of the Sun, the reporting and writing in Land of the North Wind hope to reveal the High North region in a light few rarely see, taking readers inside a polycrisis affecting the lives of millions inside and outside the Arctic Circle. The book, based on more than a dozen visits to all but one of the Arctic Council nations over the last two years and more than 400 interviews with NATO leaders, military personnel, researchers and Indigenous representatives, aims to impart how much a melting world brings not only heat and rising seas, but also war.
Kenneth R. Rosen will present a lecture on the ethical and moral uncertainties he has confronted over nearly a decade spent reporting in conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Ukraine, and how those grey zones fundamentally underscored his research and travels through a quiet conflict rarely seen, but often felt, across the world.
Biography
Kenneth R. Rosen is an American writer, journalist and war correspondent, author of two nonfiction books Bulletproof Vest (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Troubled: The Failed Promise of America’s Behavioral Treatment Programs (Little A, 2021). He is an associate fellow at the ICSR at King’s College London, and received the 2022 Kurt Schork Freelance Award for his reporting from Ukraine, Syria, and Malta, which the judges called ‘‘courageous multifaceted investigative work.’’ He is a two-time finalist for the Livingston Award in international reporting and, among other honors, he received the 2018 Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award. He is currently writing a book about the Arctic for Simon & Schuster to be published in 2025. He lives in Northern Italy.