The 2007 Durfee Lecture Series
7:30 PM, Brooks Memorial Library
Topic: The Alliance of Civilizations:
building partnerships across cultures and religions
Emmanuel Kattan is the
Senior Advisor for the Office of the Secretariat, Alliance of Civilizations
at the United Nations. The Alliance seeks to forge collective political
will and to mobilize concerted action at the institutional and civil society
levels to overcome the prejudice, misperceptions and polarization that militate
against such a consensus. It hopes to contribute to a coalescing global movement
which, reflecting the will of the vast majority of people, rejects extremism
in any society.
Friday, October 19, 2007
7:30 PM, School for International Training
Ambassador Peter Galbraith
Topic: After Iraq Cleaning Up After America's Biggest Forein
Policy Mistake
Peter Galbraith has been a consultant for corporations in the
areas of strategic communications and marketing strategy. He has
been in Iraq many times over the last twenty-one years during historic
turning points for the country: the Iran-Iraq War, the Kurdish genocide,
the 1991 uprising, the immediate aftermath of the 2003 war, and the writing
of Iraq's constitutions. He draws on his nearly two decades of involvement
in Iraq policy working for the U.S. government to appraise what has occurred
and what will happen. He is author of The End of Iraq (2006) which is the
definitive account of this war and its ramifications.
7:30 PM, Brooks Memorial Library
Topic: Journalists Under Fire: the Psychological Hazards
of Covering War
Anthony Feinstein is a professor in the Department
of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. As journalists in Iraq and other hot spots around the world continue
to face harrowing dangers and personal threats, neuropsychiatrist Anthony
Feinstein offers an exploration into the psychological damage of those who,
armed only with pen, tape recorder, or camera, bear witness to horror. His
interviews with many of this generation's greatest reporters, photographers,
and videographers often reveal extraordinary resilience in the face of adversity.
It is a look behind the public persona of war journalists at a time when
the profession faces unprecedented risk; what emerges are unique insights
into lives lived dangerously.
7:30 PM, Brooks Memorial Library.
Topic: Russia Under (After?) Putin
E. Wayne Merry is a Senior Associate
at the American Foreign Policy Council, a private educational foundation
in Washington established in 1982. Mr. Merry is also a Russia Country Specialist
for Amnesty International/USA and serves on the boards of directors of the
Kolodzei Art Foundation and the Center for Realistic Foreign Policy Studies.
He was Director of the Program on European Societies in Transition at the
Atlantic Council of the United States in Washington and later a non-resident
Senior Fellow there. He also served as a Senior Fellow of the Lester Pearson
Peacekeeping Center in Nova Scotia.
