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.
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