Journalist Roy Gutman to Speak on Afghanistan - Beloit

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist to Speak on Afghanistan

The 2008 Lecture on Human Rights is scheduled for Monday October 6 at 8:00 in the Moore Lounge of Pearsons Hall.

This first annual lecture, open to the general public, will be given by Roy Gutman, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist, author, and the 2002-2003 Weissberg Chair. Gutman’s lecture will draw on his latest book, How We Missed the Story: Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan, with a book signing to follow the lecture. He has been a foreign affairs journalist in Washington and overseas for four decades.

Mr. Gutman won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Srebrenica Massacre in Bosnia in 1995.   

The lecture and book signing will be in the Moore Lounge, on the second floor of Pearsons Hall at 8:00 pm.

These lectures are made possible by a generous donation from the Weissberg Foundation as part of the Weissberg Human Rights Program at Beloit College.

Josh Moore

Associate Director

Office of International Education

Beloit College

Tel. (608) 363-2831

Fax (608) 363-2689

moorej@beloit.edu

www.beloit.edu/~oie/