| Award winning Australian foreign correspondent Sophie McNeill has been
invited to deliver the Lancaster University 2009 Richardson Institute
Annual Peace Lecture. The free public lecture called ‘Reporting from conflict zones: telling the stories of the victims’ will be held at Lancaster University (Management School Lecture Theatre 8), Thursday 15 October,6.00-8.00pm. Sophie has covered some of the world’s most difficult and dangerous stories from areas such as Iraq, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Gaza and she has been based most recently in Jerusalem, Beirut and New York. Regarded as a seasoned foreign correspondent, Sophie made her first documentary in a conflict zone when she was 15 years old and is still only 23. Her journalism has been praised as ‘exceptional’ by the celebrated journalist John Pilger. Her talent and courage as a journalist and her commitment to tell the stories of those affected by conflict and injustice have been recognised in the wide range of awards she has received, including the highest award for an Australian journalist – the Walkley Young Australian Journalist of the Year 2008. She was also awarded Western Australia's Young Person of the Year Award (when she was just 16), was a New York Film Festival finalist in 2006 and was honoured as the 2008 Young Woman of the Year and Journalist of the Year, an award given by Australia’s women’s magazine YEN. This is the fourth annual peace lecture at the Richardson Institute which was established in 1959 as the first peace research centre in Britain. The inaugural lecture was given by the renowned Middle East correspondent of The Independent Robert Fisk, who is an alumnus of Lancaster University. It was standing room only at a packed last year’s peace lecture which was delivered by the veteran political campaigner Tony Benn. For more details contact Vicky Mason at v.mason@... Dr Victoria Mason Lecturer, Middle East Politics, Politics of Human Rights, Richardson Institute for Peace and Conflict Research, Convenor, Greater Middle East and Islamic Studies Network Politics and International Relations Lancaster University Lancaster, UK http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/politics/profiles/784/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/richinst/ |
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