News Release
September 2003
(Bethlehem, Pa.) — The Political Forum at
Moravian College will host a lecture by historian and political activist
Michael Parenti on Wednesday, September 24, at 4 p.m. in Prosser Auditorium.
Parenti will present “Destroying Nations: Yugoslavia, Iraq, and
More to Come.”
Parenti takes a critical view of the policies of
the United States. He will provide students with an alternative viewpoint
to “The
Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo” by Paula Huntley, which was read
by incoming Moravian freshman. Huntley came to Moravian College and
spoke to students on August 31.
Parenti received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.
He has taught at many colleges and universities throughout the country
and abroad. Some of his writings have been translated into Bangla,
Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish,
Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. He has
written over 250 articles for newspapers, magazines, and journals including
Covert Action Quarterly, Z Magazine, New Political
Science, Monthly
Review, the Humanist, Dollars and Sense, the
Nation, Los Angeles Times,
and New York Times. He is also the author of To Kill a Nation (about
the breakup of Yugoslavia) and The Terrorism Trap (about September
11). Parenti appears regularly on radio and television programs.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Prosser
Auditorium is located in the Haupert Union Building at the corner
of Monocacy and
Locust Streets on Moravian’s Main Street Campus. For more information,
call 610-861-1491.
