Canceled! Photojournalist Lynsey Addario to Speak at Columbia College Post Coverage on Recent Global Conflicts March 15, 2011

Columbia College Chicago’s Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media presents a conversation with award-winning photographer and Institute Fellow Lynsey Addario.

This free and public discussion will highlight some of Addario’s most recent work including:
• Two recent weeks in Libya, Bahrain and Tunisia documenting the revolutions and protests at the center of international news
• Award-winning bodies of work such as Congo/Women: Portraits of War, The Democratic Republic of Congo, which premiered at Columbia College in February 2009 and is currently touring internationally through 2012, www.congowomen.org.

This conversation will be conducted by Jane M. Saks, executive director of the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media.

INFO: Contact 312-369-8829 or visit www.colum.edu/institutewomengender

BIO: Lynsey Addario (www.lynseyaddario.com) is an award-winning based in Delhi, India, where she photographs for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Newsweek, Time and other publications. Addario has received numerous awards and distinctions, including a 2009 MacArthur “genius” Fellowship, a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for team reporting for the feature, “Talibanistan,” in September 2008, New York Times and she was named one of O magazine’s “Power List of 2010.”

Official Website: http://www.colum.edu/institutewomengender