Pulitzer Prize Winner Samantha Power To Speak At Manhattan College’s Holocaust Resource Center

Acclaimed author to address American Foreign Policy in an Age of Terror.

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, who spent 2005-06 working in the office of Sen. Barack Obama, will deliver the first Frederick M. Schweitzer Lecture on the Holocaust at Manhattan College on Thursday, Oct. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Smith Auditorium. The event, presented by the Holocaust Resource Center, is free and open to the public.

Power, the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice and Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, will deliver the lecture Can Genocide Be Stopped? American Foreign Policy in an Age of Terror. It is based on her recent book Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World (2008), a biography of the United Nations envoy killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2003.

In addition, Power worked as a foreign policy fellow in Sen. Obama’s office and also served as an unpaid senior foreign policy advisor to his presidential campaign earlier this year.

The Frederick M. Schweitzer Lecture on the Holocaust is a lecture series named in honor of Frederick M. Schweitzer, professor emeritus of history, who was the instrumental voice behind the launch of Manhattan College’s Holocaust Resource Center in 1996 and served as its director until 2007. Schweitzer has been a member of the College community for nearly half a century.

For more information about this event, please contact Dr. Jeff Horn, associate professor of history and director of the Holocaust Resource Center at Manhattan College, at (718) 862-7129 or jeff.horn@manhattan.edu.