CSU, Chico News

James Sterba, Notre Dame scholar and author, will speak on “The War in Iraq: A Moral Assessment” on Wednesday, Oct. 20, at 7 PM on the California State University, Chico campus in Performing Arts Center 134.

Sterba will present the President’s Visiting Scholar Lecture as part of the First Annual Fall Peace Festival. A reception in Trinity 100 will follow his presentation. The lecture is free and open to the public.

On Thursday, Oct. 21, Sterba will discuss “Terrorism: What It Is and What We Should Be Doing About It,” at 4 PM in Trinity 100.

Sterba is a member of the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Philosophy and a founding faculty fellow of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He has published 24 books, including “Terrorism and International Justice” (Oxford University Press, 2003), a collection of essays by prominent philosophers and political thinkers on the ethical and political issues of a post 9-11 world.

Sterba is past president of the North American Society for Social Philosophy and past president of Concerned Philosophers for Peace. He has been visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Rochester and at the University of Latvia on a Fulbright Award. He has also been visiting distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco, UC Irvine and Santa Clara University.

Sterba’s visit is part of a week-long festival that begins on Oct. 17 with an inaugural concert, and continues until Oct. 26 with a line-up of more lectures, a presentation by CSU, Chico alumnus Kelly Candaele of his PBS documentary on the life of Swedish politician Olaf Palme, panel discussions and films.

For a complete listing of activities for the peace festival, visit http://www.csuchico.edu/pa/news/fall2004/9.27.2004.html.

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