Events of Interest

Retirees may suggest events they think would be of interest to the retiree population. E-mail your suggestions to Lauren at weeks.10@wright.edu giving full details of the event and if possible an internet link where the information may be found.

Tuesday, November 6, 7:30 p.m.: Lecture by Dr. Mallon and Dr. Hussain

Globalization and Its Impact on Christion-Muslim Relations

Featuring Fr. Elias Mallon, PhD, Loyola Marymount University and Prof. Amir Hussain, PhD, Franciscans International

In the UD Science Center auditorium, Room 255

Sponsored by The UD Religious Studies Department, The Greater Dayton InterfaithTiralogue and Office for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations.

Tuesday, November 13, 8:00 p.m.: Lecture by Juan Williams

The Responsibility of Media in a Global Society

November 13, 2007 8:00 p.m.
Kennedy Union Ballroom
University of Dayton

Juan Williams is one of American's leading political writers and thinkers. He is a senior correspondent for NPR's Morning Edition, a political analyses for Fox News and a regular panelist for Fox News Sunday. In addition of prize willing columns and editorial writing for The Washington Post, he has written six books. With the 2006 release of Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America---and What We Can Do About It. Williams ignited debate with his analysis of black leadership in the U.S. Among other acclaimed works, he wrote the nonfiction bestseller, Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, the companion to the TV series.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008: Lecture by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. From April 2003 to October 2004, he was The Post's bureau chief in Baghdad, where he was responsible for covering the American occupation of Iraq, leading a team of American correspondents, and supervising more than two dozen Iraqi staffers. He also spent much of the six months leading up to the war in Baghdad, reporting on the United Nations weapons-inspections process and the build-up to the conflict.
He currently heads The Post's Continuous News department, which provides breaking news stories to the paper's Web site, washingtonpost.com.
He took a sabbatical from The Post in 2005 to serve as the journalist in residence at the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies in Washington and as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington.
He has appeared on National Public Radio and numerous television programs and stations, including the News Hour, CNN, Fox News, Nightline, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, and the BBC.
Before the U.S.-led war in Iraq, he was The Post's Cairo bureau chief. Prior to that assignment, he was The Post’s Southeast Asia correspondent, based in Jakarta, Indonesia. In the months following September 11, 2001, he was part of a team of Post reporters who covered the war in Afghanistan. He has been a foreign correspondent for The Post since 1999. Prior to that, he was the paper’s Washington-based national technology correspondent.
He joined The Post in 1994 as a reporter on the Metropolitan staff. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, he holds a degree in political science from Stanford University, where he was editor in chief of The Stanford Daily.

Updated September 13, 2007

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