Current Events of the Week

Laura Wexler

April 22, 8pm, Johnson Center room 116

Author of fire in Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America, which was just published by Scribner.

Women Writing Africa

Tuesday April 15, 2003, 10:00am to 2:00pm
The Elliot School of International Affairs 1957 E Street, NW, Room 645

Women Writing Africa is a project of cultural reconstruction which aims to restore African women’s voices to the public sphere. This project will make visible the oral and written expression of African women.

Tuesday, March 18
8:00 p.m.
Tom M. Shroder speaks in the Concert Hall, Grand Tier III.

Tom Shroder has been a newspaper journalist since the 1970's, most of that time with the Washington Post. Currently he edits the Washington Post Magazine. He has three books, the most recent Old Souls: Compelling Evidence from Children Who Remember Previous Lives (Simon and Shuster.)

Wednesday, March 19
8:00 p.m.
Semezdin Mehmedinovic speaks in the Concert Hall, Grand Tier III.

Semezdin Mehmedinovic wrote Sarajevo Blues in Bosnia during the recent war. He remained a citizen of Sarajevo throughout the Serbian nationalists' siege and was active in the resistance movement. He is a translator for Voice of America.