Speaker to address religious divide between US and EU

Middletown — A lecture ‘Europe-USA: A Religious Divide’ by Ian Buruma will examine European secularism and American fundamentalism at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 4, at Harriman Hall 111 Film Theatre at OCCC in Middletown. Buruma is a writer, journalist and fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Institute for the Humanities in Washington, D.C., and a Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard College. His writings include “Conversations with John Schlesinger,” “God’s Dust: A Modern Asian Journey,” “Behind the Mask,” and “The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan.” Buruma was born in the Netherlands to a Dutch father and English mother in 1951. Though educated in both Holland and Japan, and his wife is Japanese, he spent a great portion of his life in Asia. His knowledge of world issues makes him a globalist. The free lecture is sponsored in part by Sara M. Morrison and the Social Sciences Department’s international studies at SUNY Orange, and presented by Cultural Affairs as a Lyceum Event. For more information, call 341-4891, write to cultural@sunyorange.edu or visit www.sunyorange.edu.