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The 2003 annual Bradford Morse Lecture
This year’s Bradford Morse Distinguished Lecture, which was established
in 1989 as a tribute to the Honorable F. Bradford Morse (SMG’42,
LAW’49), the late former congressman, head of the United Nations
Development Program, founder and head of the U.N. Office of Emergency
Operations for Africa, and BU trustee, will be delivered by Kenneth Kaunda,
the first president of Zambia and the current Balfour president-in-residence
at BU’s African Presidential Archives and Research Center. Kaunda
will speak on the topic Africa and the World’s New Food Technology:
Threat or Bright Promise? on Thursday, April 3, at 4 p.m., in the Photonics
Center Colloquium Room (ninth floor). A reception will follow in the center’s
East End Lounge. A panel discussion the following day will focus on the
implications of genetically modified foods for African culture and supply
and on Kaunda’s remarks. It takes place on Friday, April 4, at 2
p.m., in the African Studies Center’s William O. Brown Seminar Room
and will include Adil Najam, a CAS professor of international relations,
who was a delegate to the United Nations 2002 World Summit on Sustainable
Development in Johannesburg, and Robert Paarlberg of Wellesley College,
who has recently published a book on the topic. For more information about
the lecture, which is free and open to the public, call 353-3673 or visit
www.bu.edu/africa.
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March 2003
Boston University
Office of University Relations