Starr Forum: Book Talk: Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn

October 5, 2009 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
40 Brattle Street, Cambridge

CIS and Harvard Book Store are delighted to host New York Times correspondents and Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn for a discussion of their new book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Kristof and WuDunn set out to expose the struggles of women across Asia and Africa, to tell their human stories, and to follow the progress of women who are ultimately given the opportunity to seize control of their own lives. Introducing the authors will be Diane Davis, professor of political sociology at MIT and head of the International Development Group. Davis also directs the Center's Jerusalem 2050 Program.

Open to the general public. | Cost: $5.00

Sponsored by the Center for International Studies and Harvard Book Store.