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Thomas Friedman talk simulcast Oct. 7 |
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WMU campus invited to live simulcast of
Thomas Friedman talk on Oct. 7 Thomas Friedman, renowned op-ed columnist of The New York Times and three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, will be the keynote speaker at the World Affairs Council of Western Michigan’s 60th anniversary dinner at 8 p.m. Oct. 7 at DeVos Place in downtown Grand Rapids. Western Michigan University President John M. Dunn will introduce Friedman’s talk in Grand Rapids
Friedman’s talk will be simulcast live in WMU’s Fetzer Center Kirsch Auditorium and will be open to the WMU campus free of charge. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. WMU’s Haenicke Institute for Global Education is the major sponsor of Friedman’s presentation in Grand Rapids and the campus simulcast.
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Friedman will discuss his newest No. 1 bestseller “Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America,” and a highly anticipated new chapter that is in the book's second edition, which is scheduled to be released in November.
Joining The New York Times in 1981 as a financial reporter, Friedman later served as the chief diplomatic, chief White House, and international economics correspondents. He has traveled hundreds of thousands of miles reporting the Middle East conflict, the end of the cold war, U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy, international economics, and the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat. His foreign affairs column, which appears twice a week in the Times, is syndicated to one hundred other newspapers worldwide.
“This will be Mr. Friedman’s first and only visit to West Michigan,” said Dixie Anderson, executive director of the World Affairs Council of Western Michigan. “It’s a privilege to have a guest speaker of this caliber at our anniversary dinner—it has taken us more than three years to secure him as our speaker.”
The World Affairs Council is dedicated to educating people in Western Michigan about other countries, cultures and regions of the world, as well as providing a forum for discussion of critical foreign policy issues. The council has been in existence since 1949 and is an educational non-profit organization.
To order tickets for the anniversary dinner and lecture in Grand Rapids or obtain more information, visit the World Affairs Council Web site at www.worldmichigan.org, send an e-mail to RSVP@worldmichigan.org or call (616) 776-1721. Visit www.thomaslfriedman.com for more about Friedman and examples of his writings. |
