Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll, managing editor of the Washington Post, will present the keynote address at this year’s University of New Mexico International Symposium. Coll will present, “The Politics of Terrorism,” on Thursday, Nov. 18 at 5:30 p.m. in the Student Union Building Lobo Rooms A and B. UNM President Louis Caldera will introduce Coll. The talk will be followed by a public reception for Coll. The event is free and open to the public.
Coll has been a reporter, foreign correspondent and editor at the Washington Post since 1985. In 1990, Coll and David A. Vise won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism for a series of articles on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
In the 1990s, Coll covered South Asia and a number of other international regions including the Middle East. His dispatches won him the 1992 Livingston Award for outstanding international reporting on South Asia, and the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy International Print Award for reporting on the civil war in Sierra Leone.
He traveled from Kazakhstan to Panama to report and write for the Post on subjects such as nuclear proliferation, money laundering, terrorism, the international economy, political changes in the post-Cold War world, and news events from Asia, the Balkans, Northern Ireland and Africa.
In 1998, he was appointed managing editor of the newspaper.
Coll is the author of five books, his most recent, “Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001,” was published by Penguin Books in February.
The address is part of a weeklong UNM symposium, “Terror and Human Rights,” which was organized by the Office of International Programs and Studies.
“The program includes several panel discussions with faculty members, students and community representatives, as well as the annual UNM International Festival, which features food, crafts and entertainment presented by international students and student organizations,” said Ken Carpenter, associate director, Office of International Programs and Studies.
International Symposium Schedule
"Terror and Human Rights"
November 15-19, 2004
Monday, Nov. 15
Panel Discussion: UNM Students and Community Members Speak Out:
12 noon - 2 p.m.
SUB Acoma Room
Human Rights and Regional Challenges for the 21st Century
Moderator: Susi Knoblauch, UNM International Programs & Studies
Panelists:
Bettina Ide, Human Rights: Theory and History
Alfredo Schwarz , Terror of Poverty - Brazil
Bhavana Upadhaya, Violence without Bloodshed. Terror of Tradition - India
Vanessa Galinda-Sanchez, Terror towards Women in Ciudad Juarez, México
Tariq Khraishi & Miriam Adams, Arab-Jewish Peace Alliance Albuquerque –
Middle-East
Funme Abosede, A.F.R.I.K.A.
Panel Discussion on International Terror and Human Rights
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
SB Lobo B
Moderator: Carole Nagengast, Chair, UNM Anthropology Dept.
Panelists: Alok Bohara, UNM Economics Dept., The Insurgency in Nepal;
Melissa Bokovoy, UNM History Dept, Terror and Human Rights in the Balkans
Tuesday, Nov. 16
Panel Discussion: The Impact of the War on Terror on the Human Rights of Civilians and Non-Civilians - from Guantanamo Bay to Central Africa
12 noon - 2 p.m.
Law School Forum
Speakers: Jennifer Moore, UNM Law School, The Effects of the War on Terror on International Human Rights
Norman Bay, UNM Law School, The War on Terror from the Standpoint of International Humanitarian Law
Elizabeth Rapaport, UNM School of Law, The War on Terror, the Geneva Convention, and Human Rights for the Guantanamo Bay Detainees
Panel: The War on Terrorism and Human Rights in the U.S.
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
SUB Lobo B
Panelists: Ken Carpenter, UNM International Programs & Studies: Impacts of the War on Terroism on International Students and Scholars
Peter Simonson, Executive Director, NM ACLU: Civil Liberties and the War on Terrorism
Wednesday, Nov. 17
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Johnson Gym
Food, crafts and entertainment from many countries, provided by UNM international students and student organizations
Thursday, Nov. 18
12 noon to 2 p.m.
Health Sciences
Dr. Paul Roth, Dean of the UNM School of Medicine: Terror, Bio-Terrorism and Public Health
KEY NOTE ADDRESS
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
SUB Lobo A & B
Steve Coll, Managing Editor of the Washington Post
The Politics of Terrorism
elcome remarks and introduction by UNM President Louis Caldera.
Reception for Steve Coll
7 p.m. - 8 p.m.
SUB Lobo A & B
Friday, November 19
Neil Mitchell, UNM Professor and author of "Agents of Atrocity: Leaders, Followers, and the Violation of Human Rights in Civil Wars
12 noon - 2 p.m.
SUB Lobo B
Panelist: Ken Roberts, UNM Political Science Dept.
For more information on the symposium, contact Ken Carpenter, 277-4032 or carpenk@unm.edu.
Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, 277-5920
Posted by kwentworth at November 4, 2004 04:34 PM