Join Talk with Mark Danner
April 17, 2008
3 p.m.
LBJ Room, CMA 5.160
Mark Danner, former staff writer for The New Yorker and Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, will visit School of Journalism students at 3 p.m. on the 17th. Danner will also be one of the keynotes at the conference “Image, Memory and the Paradox of Peace: 15 Years After the El Salvador Peace Accords (1992-2007)” held at the Ransom Center from April 17 to 18.
Mark Danner has written about foreign affairs and American politics for more than two decades, covering Latin America, Haiti, the Balkans and the Middle East among other stories. His books include The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History (2006), Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror (2004), The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travel's Through the 2000 Florida Vote Recount (2004) and The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War (1994).
Danner is a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. He is also Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, where he directs
the Goldman Forum, and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights, Democracy and Journalism at Bard College.
For more information of Mark Danner, please go to http://www.markdanner.com/