40th Annual Carlos Kelly McClatchy Memorial Symposium
Covering the War in Iraq
Dexter Filkins, Ann Garrels, George Packer, Larry Diamond
Audio of the Symposium is available in the "Faculty Lectures" section of iTunes.stanford.edui. Look for title: "Covering the War in Iraq"
DEXTER FILKINS was appointed Baghdad correspondent for The New York Times in October 2003, after having served as Istanbul bureau chief. He received the 2005 George Polk Award for war coverage for his reports on the eight-day attack on Iraqi insurgents in Falluja. The Polk Award jurors said his accounts of street-to-street fighting "conveyed the hellish intensity of urban warfare." He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Florida and has an M. Phil in International Relations from the University of Oxford.
ANNE GARRELS is a roving foreign correspondent for NPR's foreign desk. Her experiences as a journalist in Baghdad during the initial invasion of Iraq are chronicled in her recent book, Naked in Baghdad. Garrels graduated from Harvard University in 1972.
GEORGE PACKER has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since May 2003. His recent book, The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq, analyzes the events that led to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and reports on subsequent developments in that country. He graduated from Yale in 1982.
LARRY DIAMOND is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy. His most recent book, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq, provides an insider's look of what went wrong in Iraq after the initial invasion. He received all of his degrees from Stanford University, including a B.A. in 1974, an M.A. in 1978, and a Ph.D. in Sociology in 1980.
Sumi-e Artist Drue Kataoka created the original sumi-e painting for the print for the 2006 Carlos Kelly McClatchy Memorial Symposium: Covering The War In Iraq. Drue's single, bold strokes of an ancient art form create the metaphor of Covering Iraq -- provoking the viewer to ponder the instability and volatility of a nation shattered on the brink of civil war. Stanford's Department of Special Collections has archived over 20 posters of Drue's sumi-e paintings.
View past McClatchy Series artwork commissions.