The NNIC Presents:
The Nevada Speakers Series – Fall 2009/Spring 2010
Special Guest Speaker:
Barbara Crossette
Who Leads: The United States, the United Nations and Political Turbulence in the 21st Century
- Wednesday, November 18, 2009 – 7pm
- University of Nevada Joe Student Union Theatre
- Sponsored by NNIC, Co-Sponsored by ASUN Flipside, Sageridge School and UNR Political Science Department
- Free and open to the public
Barbara Crossette is a former foreign correspondent for The New York Times and the author of several books on Asia, including So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1995 and in paperback by Random House/Vintage Destinations in 1996, and a collection of travel essays about colonial resort towns that are still attracting visitors more than a century after their creation, The Great Hill Stations of Asia, published by Westview Press in 1998 and in paperback by Basic Books in 1999. In 2000, she wrote a survey of India and Indian-American relations, India: Old Civilization in a New World, for the Foreign Policy Association in New York. She is also the author of India Facing the 21st Century, published by Indiana University Press in 1993.
Ms. Crossette is now United Nations correspondent for The Nation and a freelance writer on foreign policy and international affairs. Most recently she was a co-author with George Perkovich of a section on India in the 2009 book Powers and Principles: International Leadership in a Shrinking World.
See our Special Guest Speaker Series brochure (PDF, 545KB)