Conversations from the Cullman Center: The Goldman Lectures on American Civilization and Government: "Immigration and the Emerging America." TWO LECTURES by JULIA PRESTON. April 14th and 21st.

To attend both events, you MUST reserve separately for each lecture.  

Part I: "Strangers or Citizens: Latino Immigrants in America" on Tuesday, April 14th, 2015, 7-8 p.m.  

Part II: "American Dreamers: Faces of a Civil Rights Movement" on Tuesday, April 21st, 2015, 7-8 p.m.  

Joanna Jackson Goldman Lectures on American Civilization and Government

“Immigration and the Emerging America”

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Julia Preston delivers two successive 2015 Joanna Jackson Goldman Lectures on the subject of immigration and the changing identity of America today.

Part I on Tuesday, April 14th: "Strangers or Citizens: Latino Immigrants in America."

Part II on Tuesday, April 21st: "American Dreamers: Faces of a Civil Rights Movement."

This biannual lecture series at The New York Public Library, established by the Estate of the historian Eric F. Goldman in honor of his wife, aims to encourage provocative comment and analysis concerning contemporary issues of deep, long-term significance for American democracy.

Berger Forum.

Julia Preston has been The New York Times national correspondent covering immigration since April 2006.  She has held several other positions at the Times, and also reported for The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and National Public Radio.  She was a member of The New York Times team that won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for a series on the corrosive effects of drug corruption in Mexico. She also received the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for distinguished coverage of Latin America in 1997, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Humanitarian Journalism in 1994.  Ms. Preston is the author, with Samuel Dillon, of Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy.