06/05/2008 - 7:00pm - 06/05/2008 - 9:00pm
The faculty, staff and students of the University of Chicago Human Rights Program invite you to celebrate our 10th Anniversary.
Robert H. Kirschner, M.D., Memorial Human Rights Lecture
“House of Secrets: The Place of Storytelling in Human Rights”
Alex Kotlowitz
Thursday, June 5 at 7 p.m.
International House, Assembly Hall
University of Chicago
1414 E. 59th Street
The lecture series honors the life and work of Robert H. Kirschner, MD, noted forensic pathologist and a founder of the University of Chicago Human Rights Program.
This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture.
For more information, please visit http://humanrights.uchicago.edu or call 773-834-0957.
Alex Kotlowitz is the author of Never a City So Real, The Other Side of the River, and There Are No Children Here, as well as articles for the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, and the Atlantic. He is a frequent contributor to PBS and NPR’s This American Life. His play An Unobstructed View (co-authored with Amy Dorn) premiered in Chicago in June of 2005. He is a writer-in-residence at Northwestern University. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and at the University of Notre Dame.
