The Racine Public Library, 75 Seventh St., will host a presentation by independent journalist Bob Keith entitled "Culture in the War Zone – Iraq, Turkey, Kurdistan" on Thursday, March 5 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in the library's Lee Room.
Bob Keith will share his motivation for visiting current Iraq. He often uses story telling to communicate his impressions of the culture, people, and nuances of the region. He also weaves responses and reactions he received back home to his blogs and media interviews. Bob will also bring some of the pictures and short videos he took in Iraq.
Bob Keith is a freelancer in the broadest sense of the term. While still in graduate school he started an independent writing track focused on culture in locations where the United States has taken military action. He has traveled, at his own expense, to Vietnam, Laos and Thailand several times to look at the culture of those countries 30 years after the war. Bob has also traveled to Iraq in 2006 and 2008 to view the affects that the current war is having on that culture.
Bob grew up in Rock County, Wisconsin on a dairy farm. He served in the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers in Germany during the end of the Vietnam era and has worked numerous blue-collar jobs in Wisconsin and around the country before returning to college in his 40s. He has earned two Associate degrees from Madison Area Technical College; a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice / Sociology from UW-Whitewater; and, 45 graduate credits in Communication also from UW-Whitewater. At present, Bob is preparing for a third, more extensive project in Iraq scheduled for 2009.
This presentation is free and open to the public; no registration is necessary. Questions may be directed to the Racine Public Library information desks at 262.636.9217.
Bob Keith will share his motivation for visiting current Iraq. He often uses story telling to communicate his impressions of the culture, people, and nuances of the region. He also weaves responses and reactions he received back home to his blogs and media interviews. Bob will also bring some of the pictures and short videos he took in Iraq.
Bob Keith is a freelancer in the broadest sense of the term. While still in graduate school he started an independent writing track focused on culture in locations where the United States has taken military action. He has traveled, at his own expense, to Vietnam, Laos and Thailand several times to look at the culture of those countries 30 years after the war. Bob has also traveled to Iraq in 2006 and 2008 to view the affects that the current war is having on that culture.
Bob grew up in Rock County, Wisconsin on a dairy farm. He served in the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers in Germany during the end of the Vietnam era and has worked numerous blue-collar jobs in Wisconsin and around the country before returning to college in his 40s. He has earned two Associate degrees from Madison Area Technical College; a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice / Sociology from UW-Whitewater; and, 45 graduate credits in Communication also from UW-Whitewater. At present, Bob is preparing for a third, more extensive project in Iraq scheduled for 2009.
This presentation is free and open to the public; no registration is necessary. Questions may be directed to the Racine Public Library information desks at 262.636.9217.
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