"In Retrospect: How Journalists Reconstruct the Past" with Samuel G. Freedman & Miriam Pawel
Department: Literary Journalism
Date and Time: April 9, 2014 | 5:30 PM-7:00 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway 1030
Event Details
April 9, 2014
5:30-7 PM
Humanities Gateway 1030
Join the Literary Journalism Program and the Department of History for a discussion on writing in the public sphere, with Samuel G. Freedman (Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism) and Miriam Pawel (author of The Crusades of Cesar Chavez). Moderated by Barry Siegel (UCI Literary Journalism). Co-sponsored by the Department of English, with additional support from the Office of the Provost. Free and open to the public. Book sale and signing to follow the discussion. Light refreshments will be served. For more information or for disability accommodations, contact Patricia Pierson at
(949) 824-6876 or piersonp@uci.edu.
ABOUT SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN
Samuel G. Freedman is an award-winning author, columnist, and professor. A columnist for The New York Times and a professor at Columbia University, he is the author of the seven acclaimed books, most recently Breaking The Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Game and Changed the Course of Civil Rights (2013). His previous books are Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students and Their High School (1990); Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church (1993); The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond (1996); Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry (2000); Who She Was: My Search for My Mother's Life (2005); and Letters to a Young Journalist (2006).
A tenured professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Freedman was named the nation's outstanding journalism educator in 1997 by the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2012, he received Columbia University's coveted Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching. Freedman's class in book-writing has developed more than 65 authors, editors, and agents, and it has been featured in Publishers Weekly and the Christian Science Monitor.
ABOUT MIRIAM PAWEL:
Miriam Pawel is an author, journalist and independent scholar who has spent most of the last decade writing about California farmworkers, agriculture, Cesar Chavez, and the United Farm Workers union. Her latest book, The Crusades of Cesar Chavez, has been hailed in starred reviews as the first and definitive biography of this iconic leader. The biography picks up from where her first book left off; The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement is the story of the heady and life-changing days of the farm worker movement, told through the eyes of eight key participants. Before becoming a full-time author, Pawel worked for 25 years as a reporter and editor at Newsday and the Los Angeles Times. She oversaw coverage of the crash of TWA Flight 800 and the 2003 California wildfires, both of which were awarded Pulitzer prizes. Her recent work was supported by a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Crusades of Cesar Chavez Website: http:crusadesofcesarchavez.com.
Twitter: @miriampawel