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"Asia Beyond the Stereotypes--Portrayals of North Korea, China, and India": Barbara Demick, in Conversation with Kavita Philip

Join the Department of History, the Literary Journalism Program, and the Center for
Asian Studies for "Asia Beyond the Stereotypes--Portrayals of North Korea, China, and India,"
part of the "Conversations on Writing and Public Life" series.

Featured speaker: Barbara Demick, Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times and author
of Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood, and Nothing to Envy: Ordinary
Lives in North Korea (winner of BBC's Samuel Johnson Award for the
year's best work in non-fiction for 2010)

In conversation with Kavita Philip (History)
Moderator: Erika Hayasaki (Literary Journalism)
Introductory remarks: Jeffrey Wasserstrom (History)

Free and open to the public; light refreshments. For more information or for disability
accommodations, contact Patricia Pierson (piersonp@uci.edu; 949-824-6876).