January 9, 2003

Winter lineup of Crain lectures features Turow, Simon, Berkow

An attorney/best-selling author, a civil rights movement photographer and a Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist are among the speakers who will appear at Northwestern University as part of the winter 2003 Crain Lecture Series.

The popular lectures, which are part of the Medill School of Journalism’s efforts to provide public affairs discussions on campus and in the community, will take place at the McCormick Tribune Center Forum. They are free of charge and open to the public. A schedule follows:
Monday, Jan. 13, 4 p.m. Attorney and author Scott Turow; Northwestern University School of Law Senior Lecturer and fiction writer Leigh Buchanan Bienen; and Tribune Publishing Company President Jack Fuller, will discuss “Writing About Crime.”

Monday, Jan. 20, 4 p.m. Ernest Withers, civil rights photographer, will present “Photographing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement.”

Monday, Jan. 27, 4 p.m. Scott Simon, National Public Radio’s “Weekend Edition” anchor, will deliver a lecture titled “Covering the News in a Time of Conflict.”

Tuesday, Feb. 11, 4 p.m. Samatha Power, former Balkans war correspondent and author of “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,” will discuss “Genocide in Our Time.” Ken Bode, Knight Chair in Broadcast Journalism at the Medill School and former host of “Washington Week in Review,” will moderate.

Wednesday, Feb. 19, 5 p.m. Journalist and adventure writer Laurence Gonzales, winner of the prestigious National Magazine Award for 2001 and 2002, will deliver the Hinderyckx Travel Lecture titled “Beyond the End of the Road.”

Monday, Feb. 24, 4 p.m. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times sports columnist Ira Berkow will present “Sports as a Fact of Life.”

For further information, call (847) 491-5401 or check the Medill School Web site at www.medill.northwestern.edu.