{"id":58909,"date":"2012-04-20T10:15:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T14:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=58909"},"modified":"2012-04-25T09:19:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:19:09","slug":"author-lecture-a-highlight-of-the-uconn-reads-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/04\/author-lecture-a-highlight-of-the-uconn-reads-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Lecture a Highlight of the UConn Reads Program"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times columnist and co-author of Half the Sky, speaks at the first annual UConn Reads Author Event at the Student Union Theater on April 19. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first annual UConn Reads program concluded on Thursday, with New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, co-author of the nonfiction best-seller Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide<\/em>, giving a lecture at the Student Union Theatre.<\/p>\n

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President Susan Herbst introduces Nicholas Kristof at the first annual UConn Reads Author Event at the Student Union Theater on April 19. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UConn Reads, launched in 2011 by President Susan Herbst, invites all alumni, faculty, staff, students, and community members to participate in a common intellectual discussion by reading a book selected by a University-wide committee and taking part in events and online discussions with faculty, staff, community members, and students throughout the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis project is not only a celebration of who we are as an institution, it is also a provocation, meant to develop the constructive \u2018culture of argument\u2019 so sorely missing in America today,\u201d said Herbst in announcing the program last year. \u201cWe in higher education must lead the nation to a more intelligent, productive, and interesting public conversation \u2013 from economics and politics to ethics and social life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times columnist and co-author of Half the Sky, speaks about his book. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Half the Sky<\/em> was named last year as the inaugural book selection for the program, culminating in a variety of book discussions campus-wide and a lecture by the author of the chosen book.<\/p>\n

\u201cReading enables us to come in contact with and, for a while, to inhabit the lives of others,\u201d Herbst said Thursday. \u201cAnd in the process, we gain a more complete understanding of ourselves as a people, greater empathy for people across the globe and more expansive insight into our world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kristof, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, has served as an op-ed columnist with The New York Times <\/em>since 2001. He is an advocate for human rights and social justice. Half the Sky<\/em> is a nonfiction account centering on the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.<\/p>\n

He and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn \u2013 who is also a co-author of Half the Sky<\/em> \u2013 have written several other books, including China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power<\/em> (Vintage, 1995) and Thunder from the East, Portrait of a Rising Asia<\/em> (Vintage, 2001).<\/p>\n

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Nicholas Kristof speaks with a member of the audience as he signs a copy of his book. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Nicholas Kristof, author and New York Times columnist, spoke about Half the Sky, which was chosen as the inaugural book for the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":58939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[39],"class_list":["post-58909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 23:54:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58909"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58954,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58909\/revisions\/58954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/58939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58909"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=58909"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=58909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}