The Meaning of Mandela in Today’s South Africa

Event Date: Monday February 10, 2014
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Location: Room K-354, CGIS Knafel Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution is pleased to present:

The Meaning of Mandela in Today’s South Africa

with

Greg Marinovich

Greg Marinovich
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist from South Africa
2014 Nieman Fellow

 

Monday, February 10
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Room K-354, CGIS Knafel Building
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

 

About the Speaker:

Greg Marinovich is a South African Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and co-author of The Bang Bang Club, a nonfiction account of South Africa’s transition to democracy. He has traveled widely as a conflict photographer for The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and others. He has made television documentaries in countries from Afghanistan to Cameroon on topics from belief systems to murder. He is associate editor at the online Daily Maverick, and is working on a book about the 2012 Marikana Massacre in which South African security forces used lethal force against striking miners. As a 2014 Nieman Fellow at Harvard, Marinovich is currently studying African syncretic religion and politics and issues of communal morality in times of conflict. His fellowship is supported by the Nieman Society of Southern Africa.

About the Herbert C. Kelman Seminar Series:
The 2013-2014 Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution series is sponsored by the Program on Negotiation, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Boston area members of the Alliance for Peacebuilding. The theme for this year’s Kelman Seminar is “Negotiation, Conflict and the News Media”.

For more information, contact Donna Hicks at dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu.

 

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