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Nick Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times, will present "The Second Sex in the Third World" at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 4, in Miami University's Hall Auditorium. His talk is part of the Center for American and World Culture's lecture series on "Diversity: Engaging Your Global Future Now."
Kristof, named one of America's Best Leaders in 2007 by the US News and World Report, often writes about global health, poverty and gender issues in the developing world. He has written dozens of columns about Darfur and visited the area many times. His exploration of sex trafficking in Cambodia - in which he revealed how he had bought two female sex slaves and freed them - was featured on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360."
"If I write about an issue that people have already thought of, I change very few minds," says Kristof. "But if I shine a light, I can force revulsion and maybe cause some action."
His actions have led to a 1990 Pulitzer Prize he won with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, also a New York Times journalist, for their coverage of China's Tiananmen Square democracy movement. They were the first married couple to win a Pulitzer for journalism.
Kristof won a second Pulitzer in 2006, for commentary. He has also won other prizes including the George Polk Award, the Overseas Press Club award, the Michael Kelly award, the Online News Association award and the American Society of Newspaper Editors award.
Kristof has lived on four continents, reported on six, and traveled to 140 countries, plus all 50 states, every Chinese province and every main Japanese island. He's also one of the very few Americans to be at least a two-time visitor to every member of the "Axis of Evil."
He and WuDunn are authors of China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power and Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia.
Kristof recently returned from a temporary leave to write a book with his wife about the women in the developing world. His op-ed columns appear twice each week in the New York Times.
The lecture, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the office of the provost, the Center for American and World Cultures (CAWC), the John W. Altman Humanities Scholar-in-Residence program, the Farmer School of Business, the women's center, the journalism program and the President's office.
For more information contact the CAWC at 529-8309.
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