Murrow Asia Speaker series
Rajiv Chandrasekaran will be on campus on Friday, February 29th (Leap Day). He will be the first in the Murrow School – Asia Program International Journalist Speaker Series. He will address a public audience of students, faculty, staff and community members Friday evening at 7:00 in CUE 203. The title of his talk will be:
“Building Peace in the War on Terror: The elusive quest for stability in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan”
The themes of his speech will include elections, martial law and militant violence in Pakistan, rising instability in Afghanistan, and the uncertain future of the US military surge and political developments in Iraq. This is a decisive period in each of these countries as well as in US policy making, as we elect a new President and Congress in November 2008. He will contextualize his comments within his own direct journalistic experience of the US War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as Pakistan. He will speak for about 40 minutes followed by a similar amount of time for questions and discussion.
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is the National Editor of the Washington Post. He was Baghdad bureau chief during the first year of the Iraq War. His award winning book about that period is entitled “Imperial Life in the Emerald City”.
Schedule:
Friday, Feb. 29th
3:00 Meet with Asia and Global Studies students (Ian Wendt)
4:00 Meet with Murrow School of Communication graduate and undergraduate students
5:30 Reception with faculty, administrators and staff
7:00 Public lecture/ speech to students, faculty and community members
“Building Peace in the War on Terror:
The elusive quest for stability in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan”
Saturday morning, fly out of Pullman
During his meeting with Communications students, he anticipates addressing both his current responsibilities editing much of the campaign coverage for the Washington Post, as well as his 18 months of journalistic experience in Baghdad during the early period of the reconstruction efforts of the Iraq War.