Human Rights Activist To Speak At Muhlenberg
Dimon Liu, human rights activist, architect, and urban planner, will join Muhlenberg College the week of February 8 as part of the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows Program.Friday, January 30, 2004 01:24 PM
Dimon Liu, human rights activist, architect, and urban planner, will join Muhlenberg College the week of February 8 as part of the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows Program. She will give a public lecture, "How I Became a Human Rights Activist," on Wednesday, February 11, 7 p.m., Miller Forum, Moyer Hall.
Dimon Liu was born in China, and left for the United States as a child at the height of the Cultural Revolution in 1965. She has been an activist on human rights in China beginning in 1972, after witnessing appalling conditions during her three-month trip to China after President Richard Nixon's visit. She has testified before the U.S. House and Senate on human rights in China, and in 1989 her activism helped to achieve an unprecedented U.N. reprimand against China on human rights abuse. Her writings on human rights, rule of law, democracy, and military strategy have appeared in many journals and newspapers including Asian Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, New York Times, Newsday, and Washington Times.
The Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows Foundation has developed and conducted programs in higher education since 1945, and more than 200 colleges have participated in the Visiting Fellows program, which started in 1973. The Visiting Fellows program connects a liberal education with the world beyond campus, which in return equips students for the social, political, and economic settings they will enter and illuminate the roles they may play as professionals and informed citizens.
Dimon Liu's appearance at Muhlenberg is part of a spring series on human rights presented by the Muhlenberg College Center for Ethics.
