BLOOMINGTON – WFIU Public Radio will host a live broadcast of Noon Edition on Friday, February 24 from the Shreve Auditorium at the Indiana University Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies.
The event is free and open to the public. Doors will open at 11:30 a.m. with the live broadcast beginning at 12 p.m.
The program will mark the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Noon Edition host Bob Zaltsberg and a panel of experts will discuss the year since the invasion, the ramifications on Ukrainians at home and abroad, the world’s response, and what it means for the region in the long run.
Panelists will include Dafna Rachok, a Ph.D. student in sociocultural anthropology at IU currently living in Ukraine; Sarah Phillips, a professor of anthropology at IU who specializes in the former Soviet Union; and Iryna Voloshyna, a Ph.D. student in folklore at IU whose research is in Ukrainian and Eastern European culture.
Noon Edition will take questions from the audience in attendance at the event as well as through Twitter @NoonEdition and email at news@indianapublicmedia.org. For those who cannot come in person, the event will also stream on Facebook Live.
Learn more about the Noon Edition live event on WFIU’s website.
Noon Edition is made possible with support from Bloomington Health Foundation, Estate & Downsizing Specialists, and Smithville.
