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September 6, 2007

International Journalists to Discuss "How Others View Us"

GRINNELL, IA - Grinnell College will host two international journalists who will lead a foreign policy discussion titled "Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us," on Sept. 10 at 4:15 p.m. in the Joe Rosenfield '25 Center, Room 101.

Newsweek International's Senior Editor Andrew Nagorski and Berlin's Der Tagesspiegel opinion editor Chrisoph von Marschall will speak on the Grinnell campus as part of a "U.S. in the World" speaker series sponsored by Grinnell College's Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, the University of Iowa, and Drake University.

Nagorski has spent much of his life writing and reporting overseas. In addition to his Newsweek responsibilities, Nagorski has also served as a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington D.C., and as an adjunct professor at Bard College's Center for Globalization and International Affairs. His most recent book is titled The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II.

von Marschall has served as lead opinion editor at Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin since 1995. He also worked at the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich as a correspondent in Hungary from 1989-1991. He has a Ph.D. in Eastern European history from Freiburg University and is fluent in Polish, French and English.

The Rosenfield Center is located at 1115 8th Ave. on the Grinnell College campus.