Lecture | Night Train To Odesa: The Human Cost Of Russia’s War

Over the last three years of Russia’s war against Ukraine, freelance journalist Jen Stout brought the war home to readers in Scotland with her vivid first-hand reporting from the night trains and bunkers, the frontlines, and the cities under siege – all now detailed in her award-winning book Night Train to Odesa.   Jen’s lecture will be an eye-witness account of the Russo-Ukrainian war, illustrated with her striking photographs from Ukraine and Romania, and with a focus on the ordinary people who are the heroes of her stories.

Jen Stout is a Scottish freelance journalist from Shetland who covers the war in Ukraine for major outlets including BBC radio, London Review of books, Prospect, and the Sunday Post. Jen’s work in Ukraine has been shortlisted for prizes by Amnesty International, the Foreign Press Association and the Scottish Press Awards, among others.  She has reported as a freelancer from Kharkiv, Odesa, Kyiv, Kramatorsk, Kostiantynivka, and frontline positions; from high schools, train carriages, and 1,600 mile aid convoy journeys.  In 2023 she won a Travelling Scholarship from the Society of Authors, and a Rory Peck Trust training bursary in 2022.

6.30pm Drinks Reception (Drink included in ticket price), 7.00pm Lecture Commences

£12 non members | £10 Friends