Fwd: AMBIGUITIES OF INTERVENTION//nov. 22

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Nov 9 11:09:13 PST 2002


[As Alex Cockburn once commented on a Washington Post editorial, I love it when liberals try to think constructively.]

Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 23:56:07 -0500 From: Susie Linfield <susie.linfield at nyu.edu> Subject: AMBIGUITIES OF INTERVENTION//nov. 22

friends, colleagues: here is information on a public forum i've co-organized; it should be an interesting evening that will, hopefully, broaden the debate on the iraqi crisis.

this is a public event; all are welcome. feel free to circulate this announcement to others. and if you'd like more information, please contact me.

(apologies for multiple listings.)

New York University's Department of Journalism presents

AMBIGUITIES OF INTERVENTION: IRAQ AND BEYOND A Public Forum

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22nd, 2002 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street (between University Pl. and Greene St.)

How should United States power be used? Move beyond the conventional wisdom and explore the historic, political and philosophic issues in depth.

Speakers include:

KANAN MAKIYA: Is a Democratic Iraq a Fantasy?

FRANCES FITZGERALD: The Bush Doctrine and Weapons of Mass Destruction

TODD GITLIN: Them & Us? The War Movement and the Peace Movement

MANSOUR FARHANG: "Regime Change"--The View from Iran

SIR BRIAN URQUHART: Does the United Nations Matter?

MICHAEL WALZER: Can Preemptive War Be Just War?

Free and Open to the Public

For more information call 212.998.3786 or contact: MT720 at nyu.edu

Organized by NYU's Cultural Reporting and Criticism Program and the Center for War, Peace and the News Media. Cosponsored by the New York Institute for the Humanities.

This event is made possible through the generous support of the Faculty of Arts and Science, New York University.



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