War journalist to speak about ‘The Cost of Conflict’
February 8, 2011
907-474-7902
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Veteran journalist Cheryl Hatch will speak about her work as a war journalist and the effects of war on women and children in a free public lecture, “The Cost of Conflict: A Personal Journey,” Tuesday, Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. in Schaible Auditorium on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. This is an encore of a lecture she gave in the fall.
The daughter of a soldier, Cheryl Hatch covered conflict in the Middle East and Africa, including the aftermath of the Gulf War in Iraq, the famine and subsequent U.S. intervention in Somalia and the return to peace in Mozambique and Eritrea. As a reporter and photographer, Hatch focused her heart and camera on the people caught in the crossfire—those who suffer the long-term consequences of war and pay the cost of conflict: widows, orphans, refugees. Hatch will share her photographs and discuss the effects of war on women and children—and on her as a journalist. She’ll discuss the difficult transition to peace for those who live through war and those who cover it. Hatch will also share the work of Isis Initiative, Inc., a nonprofit she founded that offers scholarships to women overseas who have the desire but not the resources to pursue a college education.
Hatch is serving as the 2010-2011 C.W. Snedden Chair in Journalism at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Helen Snedden established the Snedden Chair in 2003 in memory of her late husband, the former publisher and owner of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Since its establishment, the chair has allowed the UAF journalism department to bring a series of nationally known journalists to Fairbanks to speak to students, local journalists and the public.
The next lecture, scheduled in early March, will feature photojournalist Preston Gannaway.
ADDITIONAL CONTACTS: UAF journalism department at 907-474-7761.
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