International relations professor to speak tonight at Hendrix

Dr. James Der Derian, professor of international relations at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, will give a lecture titled "9/11: Virtuous War or Foreign Folly?" at 7 p.m. today in Lecture Room A of the Mills Center at Hendrix College.

There is no admission charge, and the public is invited to participate. For more information, contact Dr. Ian King, chair of the International Relations and Global Studies Committee at Hendrix at 450-1236.

Der Derian's presentation is the second lecture in the W. C. Buthman Endowed Visiting Scholars and Lectureship Series.

Der Derian directs the Information Technology, War and Peace Project (www.infopeace.org), and is also professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He received a bachelor's degree with Joint First Class Honours in political science and history from McGill University, and he was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he completed a master's degree and a doctorate in international relations. He has received fellowships from the Social Science Research Council and the Ford and MacArthur foundations.

Der Derian is the author of "On Diplomacy: A Genealogy of Western Estrangement" (1987) and "Antidiplomacy: Spies, Terror, Speed, and War" (1992), and most recently, "Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network" (2001).