August 28, 2002

Contact:

Sarah Ray

802-443-5794

sray@middlebury.edu

Posted: August 28, 2002

MIDDLEBURY,

VT - Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Boston University professor,

will speak at Middlebury College on Tuesday, Sept. 10, at 4:30 p.m. in

Mead Chapel on Hepburn Road off College Street (Route 125). His talk,

“Reflections on September 11 One Year Later,” will be

this year’s John Hamilton Fulton Memorial Lecture in the Liberal Arts.

Following the lecture, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., there will be a reception

in the Redfield Room of Proctor Hall, which is also on Hepburn Road. Copies

of Wiesel’s new novel, “The Judges,” will be available for purchase

and signing by the author at the reception. Both the talk and the reception

are free and open to the public.

Wiesel

has worked on behalf of oppressed people for much of his adult life. His

personal experience of the Holocaust has led him to use his talents as

an author, teacher and storyteller to defend human rights and peace throughout

the world.

Wiesel’s

efforts have earned him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United

States Congressional Gold Medal and the Medal of Liberty Award, the rank

of Grand-Croix in the French Legion of Honor and, in 1986, the Nobel Peace

Prize.

After

receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Wiesel and his wife Marion established

The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, with a mission to advance the

cause of human rights and peace throughout the world by creating a forum

for the discussion of urgent ethical issues confronting humanity.

A

survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Wiesel wrote about what he had endured

as an inmate in the death camps in his 1958 book, “La Nuit”

(“Night”). This book has been translated into 30 languages

and millions of copies have been sold.

Wiesel

has since written more than 40 books, including the award-winning works

of fiction “A Beggar in Jerusalem,” “The Testament”

and “The Fifth Son;” the memoirs “All Rivers Run to the

Sea” and “And the Sea is Never Full;” and his most recent

novel “Les Juges” (“The Judges”), published

in English this month.

Since

1976, Wiesel has been the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities

at Boston University, where he also holds the title of university professor.

The

John Hamilton Fulton Lecture

The

John Hamilton Fulton Lecture in the Liberal Arts was established at Middlebury

College in 1966. The late Alexander Hamilton Fulton, an emeritus member

of the Middlebury College board of trustees, donated the gift that established

the lectureship, which is named in honor of his father.

Previous

Fulton lecturers have included Beverly Sills, James A. Baker III, William

H. Rehnquist and Wynton Marsalis.

For

more information, contact Kathleen Knippler in the office of the secretary

of Middlebury College at knippler@middlebury.edu

or 802-443-5393.