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MARCH 2006 ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPDATES:1) announcing The 4th Annual Peace & Justice Lecture at MSU Jack DuVall “Defiance & Liberation: The People's Power and the People's Rights” President & Founding Director of the International Center on Non-Violent Conflict (http://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/index.htm) & Executive Producer of the PBS Series, A Force More Powerful 7:30 PM, Wednesday, March 15TH Room 118, Psychology Building (formerly the Physics & Astronomy Building) [PANEL DISCUSSION TO FOLLOW] presented by The Peace & Justice Specialization Interested students and faculty are invited to visit with Mr. Duvall on Thursday, March 16th from 9:00 to 10:30am in the International Center, room 303. Course instructors: Please encourage your students to attend!! Sponsored by: College of Social Science, Tom Greer Fund for Peace and Justice Studies, College of Arts and Letters, Asian Studies Center, Center for Integrative Studies in Social Science, Departments of Anthropology, Philosophy, and History, School of Social Work, African Studies Center, Latin American Studies Center, and Peace Education Center in East Lansing.
Additional Background Information on Jack DuVall * Executive Producer of the two-part Emmy-nominated PBS television series, “A Force More Powerful,” and co-author of the companion book of the same name (Palgrave/St. Martin's Press 2001). * Author of numerous editorial page submissions and articles in The Harvard International Review, The International Herald Tribune, Le Monde, The Boston Globe, Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Age (Melbourne, Australia). * As a television executive, he has produced and promoted a variety of non-fiction television programming; his clients have included the Turner Broadcasting System, The Learning Channel, KCET/Los Angeles, WTVS/Detroit, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Committee on the Constitutional System. |
