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Event focuses on Trustees’ initiative to heighten awareness of Darfur
Nicholas Kristof, renowned author, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and columnist for The New York Times, will present “Genocide in Darfur” 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8 in Colton Chapel.
Free and open to the public, the lecture is sponsored by the Policy Studies program. A reception and book signing will follow the talk.
Policy Studies is taking the lead in implementing the Board of Trustees’ resolution that Lafayette develop an educational program to heighten awareness regarding the abhorrent violations of human rights committed by the Sudanese government within the Darfur region. Another event, the “Darfur: Tragic Lessons and How to Convey Them” workshop, will take place 8:30 a.m. March 17 in Kirby Hall of Civil Rights room 104.
Kristof joined The New York Times in 1984, initially covering economics. He has served as a Times correspondent in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo. He previously was associate managing editor of the newspaper, responsible for the Sunday Times.
In 1990, Kristof and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of China’s Tiananmen Square democracy movement. Kristof won a second Pulitzer in 2006, for his columns focusing attention on the genocide in Darfur. He has also won other prizes including the George Polk Award, the Overseas Press Club award, the Michael Kelly award, the Online News Association award, and the American Society of Newspaper Editors award.
Along with WuDunn, he is the author of Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia (2000), and China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power (1994). Kristof graduated from Harvard College and then studied law at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship.