Journalists to View the United States at Fermilab Forum
A panel discussion, "How America and Americans are Perceived -- How the Image is Made," will be held in the Fermilab auditorium Friday, October 28, at 8 p.m. The program will bring together two foreign journalists, their American counterparts and former reporters now on the University of Chicago faculty.
Panelists will be:
-- Jurek Martin, U.S. Editor, The Financial Times (London)
-- Hans Tutsch, chief U.S. Correspondent, Neue Zurcher Zeitung (Switzerland)
-- Milt Freudenheim, former Paris bureau chief, The Chicago Daily News
-- Edward W. Rosenheim, Jr., Professor of English/Director, National Humanities Institute, University of Chicago
-- Robert E. Streeter, Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of English, University of Chicago
Professor Robert Z. Aliber, professor of International Economics and Finance in the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, will serve as moderator.
The program is sponsored by the university's Center for Policy Study. The first in a 1977-78 series, the Fermilab session will open five meetings on separate but related topics on four dates in the greater Chicago area. "Journalists View the United States" is the theme. Funding is by the Illinois Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The first three programs will be panel discussions; the fourth and fifth topics will be presented as day-long seminars/workshops for Midwest journalists and humanists.
The series has several aims. They include: to examine the image abroad of America and the Midwest; to examine the role and responsibility of the press in shaping that image; and to consider ways that the press, through the image it helps to create, influences public opinion and public policy decisions abroad and at home.
Audience participation will be encouraged. Further discussion between panelists and the audience will continue with a coffee hour after the session.
