The Mario Savio Memorial Lecture features Christopher Hitchens in a free-wheeling discussion with author-journalist Adam Hochschild.

The topic of the lecture is "Fault Lines: Rights, Wrongs & Responsibilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, and The Nation".

The event took place Thursday, November 21, 2002 at 7:30pm in the Pauley Ballroom, MLK Student Union.

Christopher Hitchens, recently resigned columnist for The Nation and the 2003 I.F. Stone Fellow at the UC Graduate School of Journalism, is the author of The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Letters to a Young Contrarian, The Mission Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, and many other books and articles. He is known for his rapier wit, his commitment to human rights, and his ability to upset and offend people of all political persuasions.

Adam Hochschild is the prize-winning author of King Leopold's Ghost, The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey, The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin, and many other books and essays. He is the co-founder of Mother Jones Magazine, and teaches at the UC Graduate School of Journalism.

For more information, visit the Graduate Assembly website.

This event is held in cooperation with the Free Speech Movement Cafe, the Goldman School of Public Policy, the Graduate Assembly, the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and the UC Berkeley Library.