Siberia-Iraq-Central Africa Q+A: "Bringing the Story Back"
Sophy Roberts is an author and journalist based in West Dorset. Educated at Oxford University, then the Columbia School of Journalism, she is a regular contributor to the Financial Times, among other titles. Her writing focuses on remote places, often overlooked in the news — the Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Tajikistan, Siberia, Iraq. She is the author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia (with publishing rights sold in 11 languages), host of the travel writing podcast, ‘Gone to Timbuktu’, and is currently working on her second book, set among Africa’s Great Lakes, for publication in 2024.
Date: 5 May 2023, 19:30 (Friday, 2nd week, Trinity 2023)
Venue: School of Geography and the Environment: Main Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Sophy Roberts
Organiser: James Kempton (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: james.kempton@biology.ox.ac.uk
Host: James Kempton (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)
Booking required?: Not required
Cost: Free for members; £5 for non-members
Audience: Public
Editor: James Kempton