#04-298
Nov. 1, 2004

Nov. 10 GSW seminar focuses on U.S.-Third World relations

AMERICUS--"United States-Third World Relations, with Special Emphasis on Latin America," is the theme of Georgia Southwestern State University's Third World in Perspective Program seminar from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10, in the GSW Education Center, Room 100. 

The public is invited and encouraged to attend this free program. 

The featured speaker will be Max Paul Friedman, Ph.D., a nationally known authority on United States foreign relations, who teaches in the history department at Florida State University. Friedman received his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley, and was a Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His book, "Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign Against the Germans of Latin America in World War II," won the Herbert Hoover Book Award in U.S. History and the Alfred B. Thomas Book Award in Latin American Studies. He has co-edited a volume with Padraic Kenney titled "Partisan Histories: The Past in Contemporary Global Politics." 

The seminar, which will be moderated by Harold Isaacs, Ph.D., GSW professor of history and founding editor of the Journal of Third World Studies (JTWS), is co-sponsored by the Department of History and Political Science; the Georgia Southwestern Foundation, Inc.; the Division of Continuing Education; and the Association of Third World Studies, Inc.

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