[Env seminars] FW: Thomas Friedman to speak at MIT on May 16

Tue May 3 14:07:33 EDT 2005

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THREE-TIME PULITZER PRIZE WINNER THOMAS FRIEDMAN

TO SPEAK AT MIT ON MONDAY, MAY 16

New York Times Foreign Affairs Columnist and author to discuss globalization
and the digital revolution, will sign copies of his new book The World is
Flat

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (May 3, 2005) - Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times
columnist and author Thomas L. Friedman will speak at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology on Monday, May 16, 2005. Friedman's lecture, "The
World is Flat," is open to the public and will begin at 4 pm in Room 10-250
in the center of MIT's campus. Friedman's lecture will be immediately
followed by a reception and signing of his new book, The World is Flat: A
Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.

Friedman's speech will focus on the world as it stands today in the age of
globalization, and the convergence of technology that has allowed India,
China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain
for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the
middle classes of the world's two biggest nations and giving them a huge new
stake in the success of globalization. And, Friedman will ask, with this
"flattening" of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay
in place, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and
their political systems to adjust in a stable manner?

MIT President Emeritus Charles M. Vest will introduce Friedman in this
lecture that is open to the general public. The reception and book signing
will be held in MIT's Bush Room, Room 10-105. Copies of The World is Flat
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2005) will be available for purchase. This
event is sponsored by the MIT OpenCourseWare project (online at
http://ocw.mit.edu).

Friedman is the foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, for which
he won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. He also was awarded Pulitzer
Prizes for international reporting in 1983 and 1988.

A world-renowned author and journalist, Friedman joined The New York Times
in 1981 as a financial reporter specializing in OPEC and oil-related news
and later served as the Chief Diplomatic, Chief White House, and
International Economics Correspondents. He has traveled hundreds of
thousands of miles reporting the Middle East conflict, the end of the Cold
War, U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy, international economics, and
the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat. His Foreign Affairs Column,
which appears twice a week in The New York Times, is syndicated to 700
newspapers worldwide.

In addition to his new book, Friedman is also the author of >From Beirut to
Jerusalem, which won both the National Book and the Overseas Press Club
Awards in 1989 and was on The New York Times "Bestseller List" for nearly 12
months. Beirut has been published in more than 20 languages, including
Chinese and Japanese, and is now used as a basic textbook on the Middle East
in many high schools and universities. Friedman also wrote The Lexus and the
Olive Tree, one of the best-selling business books of 1999, and the winner
of the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for best non-fiction book on foreign
policy. Lexus is now out in 27 languages. Longitudes and Attitudes:
Exploring the World After September 11, issued in 2002, consists of columns
Friedman published about September 11, as well as a diary of his private
experiences and reflections during his reporting on the post-September world
as he traveled from Afghanistan to Israel to Europe to Indonesia to Saudi
Arabia.

Friedman graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University with a degree in
Mediterranean Studies and received a masters degree in Modern Middle East
Studies from Oxford. He has served as a visiting professor at Harvard
University and has been awarded honorary degrees from several U.S.
universities. He lives in Bethesda, MD, with his wife, Ann, and their two
daughters.

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