Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matthieu Aikins will join Boston College Professor of English Min Hyoung Song on February 27 for a discussion on the experiences of refugees trying to cross heavily fortified borders, the wars in the Middle East, and the dangers of being a journalist covering such stories. The conversation will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Devlin Hall, room 101. Aikins has reported from Afghanistan and the Middle East since 2008. He received the 2022 Pulitzer for international reporting as part of a New York Times team that investigated civilian casualties from U.S. airstrikes. In his book The Naked Don’t Fear the Water, Aikins chronicles a dangerous journey on the smuggler’s road to Europe, accompanying his friend, an Afghan refugee. The book has been translated into nine languages. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, and the anthology The Best American Magazine Writing. Song teaches in the Asian American Studies Program at BC and is the author of three books, including The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American. Sponsor: BC’s Asian American Studies.