ESPN contributor, 3-time Pulitzer finalist to give talks at Miami University

UPDATED CUTLINE FOR 101217 Clery reports: Miami University saw a rise in 2016 with 12 alleged sex offenses, including rape and sexual assault with an object, reported on campus last year compared to just four in 2015 and 10 in 2014. GREG LYNCH/STAFF---Miami University in Oxford. January 2017. GREG LYNCH/STAFF

Credit: GREG LYNCH/STAFF

Credit: GREG LYNCH/STAFF

UPDATED CUTLINE FOR 101217 Clery reports: Miami University saw a rise in 2016 with 12 alleged sex offenses, including rape and sexual assault with an object, reported on campus last year compared to just four in 2015 and 10 in 2014. GREG LYNCH/STAFF---Miami University in Oxford. January 2017. GREG LYNCH/STAFF

Miami University will soon host two national journalists on campus.

The department of comparative religion will present the 2018-2019 Arthur C. Wikenden Memorial Lecture Wednesday with featured lecturer Rukmini Callimachi. The event will be at 4:30 p.m. in the Miami University Shriver Center Dolibois Room and will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with Miami faculty.

Callimachi is a New York Times foreign correspondent and a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. She specializes in reporting on the Islamic State and has been cited by U.S. lawmakers and foreign governments.

Sports journalist Kevin Blackistone, who writes for The Washington Post and appears on ESPN’s “Around the Horn,” will deliver the Alan G. Ingham Memorial Lecture for Miami University’s department of kinesiology and health.

Blackistone, who is also a professor of practice at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, will present “Sport as a Social Institution: Don’t Believe the Type” at 7 p.m. March 18, in the Armstrong Student Center Wilks Theater. He will also participate in a student meet-and-greet event that day from 2:45-3:50 p.m. in the Phillips Hall lobby.

For more information, call 513-529-7592.

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