The 2012 Roy and Margaret Shilling Lecture will feature Thomas Friedman, foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times. The lecture will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 28 at 7pm.

Friedman has won three Pulitzer Prizes, and according to Foreign Policy magazine, “Friedman doesn’t just report on events; he helps shape them.” Vanity Fair called him “the country’s best newspaper columnist,” and he has been named one of “America’s Best Leaders” by U.S. News & World Report.

Friedman is the author of several bestselling books, including Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution − and How It Can Renew America, The World is Flat, Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism, The Lexus and the Olive Tree and From Beirut to Jerusalem, which serves as a basic text on the Middle East in colleges and universities nationwide and won the National Book Award.

Friedman’s latest book, co-written with Michael Mandelbaum, is titled That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World We Invented and How We Can Come Back.

About

The Roy and Margaret Shilling Lecture Series was established in 1999 by The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston, to honor Southwestern’s 13th president, Roy B. Shilling Jr., and his wife, Margaret. The series brings to campus internationally prominent speakers on topics relating to ethics, public service and public policy. Past speakers include Blake Mycoskie, Bill Foege, Wangari Maathai, Bill Bradley, James Baker III, Thomas Kean, Benazir Bhutto, Desmond Tutu, Bill Moyers, President Jimmy Carter, Marian Wright Edelman, William Sloane Coffin, John McGuire and Karen Hughes.

Special Thanks

The 2012 Roy and Margaret Shilling Lecture is brought to you in part by Sodexo.