New York Times columnist David Brooks will be giving the fifth annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture today, titled “Journalism and World Culture.”
Daniel Pearl was a journalist who was captured and killed by terrorists while reporting from Pakistan in 2002. His father, Judea Pearl, is a computer science professor at UCLA, and heads the Daniel Pearl Foundation.
Judea Pearl said the memorial lecture series is part of the organization’s efforts to further the values that drove his son’s work as a journalist.
“I hope the event will encourage (the) interest of students in international relationships, in journalism, and remind students of the values that have been awakened through the tragedy of my son,” Pearl said.
Past memorial lectures have addressed issues in journalism, world politics and other problems of international interest, with speakers such as Ted Koppel, Larry King and Daniel Schorr.
The event is free and open to the public. It is hosted by the Daniel Pearl Foundation, the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA and the Burkle Center for International Relations.
Compiled by Frank Shyong, Bruin contributor.