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Texas Christian University's Center for Civic Literacy has scheduled two engagements for the spring semester as part of its lectureship series.
On Tues., March 4, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh will headline "A Conversation with (who else?) Seymour Hersh on Foreign Policy." Mr. Hersh - a correspondent for the Associated Press - first attained prominence during the Vietnam War when he brought to light the My Lai Massacre. More recently he uncovered and chronicled the abuses doled out by U.S. military personnel against prisoners detained in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. (I'm hoping he brings his act to Pegasus News World Headquarters while he's in the vicinity so he can document the abuses doled out on a daily basis by our HVAC overseers... it's friggin' COLD in here, I'm just sayin'.)
Second up in the lecture series will be Ishmael Beah, a 2007 Quill Award nominee, who grew up in Sierra Leone and at the age of 13 was handed an AK and forced into soldierdom. Mr. Beah is a seasoned speaker who now lives in Brooklyn and serves on the Human Rights Watch Children's Division Advisory Committee. Mr. Beah will speak on Thursday, April 24.
For information about the lectures, contact Civic Literacy associate director Karen Anisman at 817-257-7395 or k.anisman@tcu.edu. Their website is here.
posted by JM
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