Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism
Richard Longworth
Tuesday, 22 Sep 2009 at 6:00 pm – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall
Journalist Richard Longworth is the author of Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism. For twenty years Longworth was a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and United Press International and was the Tribune's Chief European Correspondent. He is the author of Global Squeeze, one of the first books on globalization, as well as the MacArthur Foundation report "Global Chicago." Longworth is a two-time recipient of the Overseas Press Club Award for series on globalization and the UN and was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is a senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and distinguished visiting scholar at DePaul University. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series: Iowa in the Global Community and the Globalization, Technology, and Culture Series.Cosponsored By:
- Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities
- College of Engineering
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Deere & Company
- Rockwell Collins
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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