Washington & Jefferson presenting free lectures
Washington & Jefferson College will present two public lectures this week. They include:
• Shadia Marhaban – 7:30 p.m. today in Allen Ballroom of the Rossin Campus Center. Marhaban, a regional consultant for Mediators Beyond Borders International, will present “Hidden Pearls: Woman Peace Builders.”
She was the only woman negotiator in the 2005 Helsinki peace talks that ended 30 years of conflict between the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement. Since then, Marhaban has been very active in advocating for women and peace efforts in conflict areas throughout Asia.
• Mark Philip Bradley – 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Yost Auditorium of the Howard J. Burnett Center. Bradley will present “Human Rights in the Era of Trump.”
Bradley is the Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of International History and the College at the University of Chicago and faculty director of the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights.
He is the author of “The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century,” “Vietnam at War” and “Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam,” which won the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies.