Center for Civic Literacy Lectureship Series set for spring semester

Seymour Hersh

Fort Worth, TX

1/17/2008

TCU's Center for Civic Literacy has announced the speakers for its lectureship series for the spring. "A Conversation with Seymour Hersh on Foreign Policy" will kick off the series Tuesday, March 4, 2008, and "Ishmael Beah: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" will conclude the series on Thursday, April 24, 2008.

Seymour Hersh is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of eight books. He worked as a correspondent for the Associated Press beginning in 1963. Hersh gained worldwide recognition for his exposure of the My Lai Massacre and cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he later received the Pulitzer Prize. More recently, he uncovered the abuse of detainees in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq by U.S. military personnel.

Ishmael Beah is the author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, which has been nominated for a Quill Award in 2007. Beah was pressed into becoming a child soldier in Sierra Leone at the age of 13 after the death of his family. He has spoken at numerous conferences including at the United Nations and at the Global Young Leaders Conference in 2007. He currently works for the Human Rights Watch Children's Division Advisory Committee and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

For more information on the Center For Civic Literacy visit http://www.civlit.tcu.edu/. For more information on the lectureship series, contact Karen Anisman, associate director of the Center for Civic Literacy at 817-257-7395 or http://k.anisman@tcu.edu.