Department of French

 

A Lecture in English by

Alain Dubos

Former Vice-President of Doctors Without Borders

(1999 Nobel Peace Prize)

Tuesday, April 10, 2008 3:15 p.m.

Espace McCarthy, ICC-425

How should we view emergency medical engagement in the early part of our new century?

  More than 30 years after it was established, Doctors Without Borders continues its work in over 40 countries on five continents. From the secrecy of former times to the worldwide aura bestowed upon it by the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999, the organization has always had to adapt its original philosophy, “to go where others don’t go,” to the constraints of a world in upheaval after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

  Vice-President of Doctors Without Borders for a half-dozen years, Alain Dubos has completed numerous missions, often clandestine, in many countries at war, from Afghanistan to Lebanon and Kurdistan, to name a few. From these experiences, Dubos has produced a series of novels and non-fiction works and has since continued to work for population groups in danger. Thirty years after his early pioneering travels, his most recent mission was to Cambodia in March 2006.

  PLEASE NOTE:

 The lecture will take place in the Espace McCarthy, the conference room located in the French Department (and NOT in the Gervase Conference Room as previously publicized).