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Panel to discuss Iraq War on first anniversary of conflict

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – A panel discussion about the war in Iraq on the first anniversary of its launching will begin at 4 p.m. on March 18 (Thursday) on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Humanities Lecture Hall of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH),

805 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Urbana. IPRH is sponsoring the event, which fits into its theme this year on “Violence.”

Panelists, all faculty members at the U. of I., are Stephen Hartnett, speech communication; John Lynn, history; Clifford Singer, nuclear, plasma and radiological engineering, and Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security; and Assata Zerai, sociology. Susan Davis, Institute of Communications Research, will chair the panel.

For more information, contact Chris Catanzarite at IPRH at 217-244-7913.

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