Jonathan and Maxine Marshall Distinguished Lecture Series
The
Jonathan and Maxine Marshall Distinguished Lecture Series brings
to ASU nationally
known scholars concerned with promoting culture through the humanities
and a better understanding of the problems of democracy. The free
public lecture is held every fall and is funded by grants from
Jonathan and Maxine Marshall and The Marshall Fund of Arizona.
2007- Tuesday, September 18, 7:30 pm at ASU's Gammage Auditorium
"The Problems and Promises of Democracy in the Middle East"
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This event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Tickets are available at the ASU Bookstore, Tempe campus. Online registration for this event is now closed. However, be assured that there will be tickets available at the door the day of the event.
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Acclaimed journalist Robin Wright has covered every major political and cultural change of the Middle East since the Iranian revolution in 1979 through to the rise of militant Islam and the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
A prolific writer and commentator, Wright has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN news programs, including the "PBS Newshour," "Meet the Press," "Face the Nation," "This Week," "Nightline," "Frontline," "Larry King Live" and "Washington Week in Review.” A current diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post, Wright is a distinguished journalist and has reported from more than 130 countries on six continents for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Times of London and The Christian Science Monitor. She has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Times (London), The Guardian (London), and The International Herald Tribune.
Throughout her extensive career, Wright has covered a dozen wars and several revolutions. Her foreign tours include five years in the Middle East, two years in Europe, seven years in Africa and several years as a roving correspondent in those areas as well as Latin America and Asia. Her major focus has been covering the ongoing political unrest in the Middle East, while observing the transformation and repercussions for the future of the region.
In 2003, Wright was awarded the United Nations correspondents’ Gold Medal for coverage of international affairs. In 2001, she won the Weintal Prize for “the most distinguished diplomatic reporting.” Her other awards include the 1989 Magazine Award for her reportage from Iran in The New Yorker and an Overseas Press Club Award for the “best reporting in any medium requiring exceptional courage and initiative” for coverage of African wars.
She is also the recipient of the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant. Wright lectures extensively around the U.S. and has been a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Yale University, Duke University and Stanford University. Among her books, “The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran” was selected as one of the 25 most memorable books of the year 2000.
Past lecturers:
2006
Jon Meacham
Managing Editor of Newsweek
2005
Seymour Hersh
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
2004
Paul Krugman
Professor, Economist, Author and New York Times Columnist
2003-cancelled
Wendy Wasserstein
Playwright
2002
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Senior attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council
To view a video of this lecture, go to www.asu.edu/asunews/video.htm
2001-cancelled
Martha Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago
2000
Baruch Blumberg
Director, NASA's Astrobiology Institute
1998
Martin Marty
Director, Public Religion Project, University of Chicago School of Divinity
1997
Daniel Goldhagen
Author, “Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust”
1997
Arthur Caplan
Director, Center of Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania
President, American Association of Bioethics
1996
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Pulitzer Prize winning historian
1995
Lester Brown
Founder, WorldWatch Institute
1994
Thomas Wicker
Former editorial columnist, The New York Times
1993
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Pulitzer Prize winning historian