“Myanmar (Burma): Too Late to Turn Back?”

STAMFORD, Conn. - Sept. 13, 2013 - PRLog -- The public is invited to attend a World Affairs Forum special event hosted by MasterCard Worldwide at its headquarters in Purchase, NY, which will feature a presentation on Myanmar by journalist Barbara Crossette. This event will take place on September 23, 2013.

Barbara Crossette is currently the U.N. correspondent of The Nation and formerly The New York Times chief correspondent in Southeast Asia and South Asia, and the Times bureau chief at the UN.

In 1991 Ms. Crossette won the George Polk Award for foreign reporting for her coverage of the assassination in India of a former prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi. In 2008 she received a Fulbright Award for contributions to international understanding and in 2010 she won the Shorenstein Prize, awarded jointly by research centers at Harvard and Stanford Universities, for writings on Asia that enhanced understanding of the region in the West.

She has authored India Facing the 21st Century and So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas.  She has also written a survey of India and Indian-American relations, India: Old Civilization in a New World, for the Foreign Policy Association.

A frequent guest professor at Columbia University, Punjab University in India, Princeton University and Bard College; she worked with writers and editors from Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Burma. Specifically, in 2008 she worked with Cambodian journalists covering the Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal.

Ms. Crossette has a B.A. in history from Muhlenberg College and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the publications advisory board of the Foreign Policy Association.  She is also a trustee of the Carnegie Council on Ethics in International Affairs and a senior fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute at the City University of New York.

The cocktail reception will begin at 5:30 P.M. and the program will begin promptly at 6:30 P.M. The fee for members is $35 and non-members is $45. Space is limited. Please contact the World Affairs Forum at 203-356-0340 or E-mail: info@worldaffairsforum.org to reserve on or before September 19.

The World Affairs Forum is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to expanding understanding of global affairs and America’s role in the world. The Forum is an affiliate of the World Affairs Councils of America.