March
29, 2005International Relations Expert to Address Question
"Does Rising Anti-Americanism Matter?"
at Mount Holyoke Tuesday, April 5
South Hadley---One of the most influential women ever to serve
in the United States State Department will address the question "Does
Rising Anti-Americanism Matter?" in a lecture at 7 pm Tuesday,
April 5, in Gamble Auditorium in the Mount Holyoke College Art
Museum. The event is free, open to the public, and accessible to
all.
The speaker, Phyllis Oakley, was the U.S. State Department's first
woman spokesperson and served twice as assistant secretary in the
Department of State as a career foreign service officer. Before
her retirement in 1999, she headed the State Department's Bureau
of Intelligence and Research after leading the Bureau of Population,
Refugees, and Migration for three years. On the occasion of her
retirement, after forty-two years as an American diplomat, the
New York Times characterized Oakley as having "forged a trail
for women in a man's world."
Oakley currently teaches at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced
International Study at Johns Hopkins University. She taught at
Mount Holyoke in 2000.
This event is sponsored by the Weissman Center for Leadership and
the Liberal Arts, the Center for Global Initiatives, and the World
Affairs Council of Western Massachusetts.
