Patricia Evangelista and Patrick Radden Keefe, Reporting on a Reign of Terror

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Patricia Evangelista, an award-winning journalist from the Philippines, specializes in the effects and trauma of political situations marked by violence and natural disasters. She has risked her life to write about the dead, the disappeared and the families left behind in her country during the campaign of extrajudicial murder by former President Rodrigo Duterte. The conversation with Patrick Radden Keefe will focus on Patricia Evangelista’s acclaimed book, Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country (Random House, 2023), the challenges of writing about forced disappearances and state sanctioned killing, the ways in which language can be twisted by the powerful to obscure the truth and the hazards of working as an investigative journalist in a country where reporters are murdered.

The event will be take place in English with simultaneous translation into Catalan.

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