Perle at DePaul

(Sent to me by PBS, from their press release:)

Former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, an advocate of the war against Saddam Hussein and the subject of a new film to air on PBS, The Case for War: In Defense of Freedom, will participate in a discussion on the merits of the war in Iraq at DePaul University on Wednesday, February 28th, 6:30p.m (Merle Reskin Theater 60 E. Balbo Avenue). In addition to a highlight screening of The Case for War: In Defense of Freedom, Gangs of Iraq (Co-Presentation with FRONTLINE) which documents Iraqi security forces and Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience that explores the searing firsthand accounts of American troops through their own words will also be shown.

Award winning journalist, Bill Kurtis will moderate the panel which includes; Richard Perle; Abdel Bari Atwan, Editor of Al Quds; Mahmood Mamdani- Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Departments of Anthropology and International Affairs, and Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University; Sherman Jackson- Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies at The University of Michigan.

(Looks like a gathering that calls for some conservative support in the audience.)

UPDATE: More background from John Ruberry, Marathon Pundit, who follows DePaul and academic freedom issues closely.

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