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http://www.tryufm.org/lecture_schedule.htm
News release prepared by: Katie Mayes, 785-532-6415, kmayes@k-state.edu

Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008

PHOTOGRAPHER AND SOCIAL ACTIVIST TO DELIVER LOU DOUGLAS LECTURE NOV. 3 AT K-STATE

MANHATTAN -- Paula Allen, who for more than 20 years has been using her camera to record the plight of abused and repressed women around the globe, will present "Women Around the World Demand Justice" at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 3, in the K-State Student Union's Forum Hall at Kansas State University.

The photo and lecture event is sponsored by K-State's Lou Douglas Lecture Series on Public Issues.

Allen's photographs are internationally known. They record the histories of women and their loved ones in an effort to tell powerful stories of love, courage and perseverance. Her photos have been published in U.S. News & World Report, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Mother Jones, The New York Times Magazine and People, among others.

In 1999 she published a bilingual book, "Flores en el Desierto/ Flowers in the Desert,"which documents women in Calama, Chile, as they searched for their lost sons and fathers who disappeared during the violently repressive Pinochet regime. Allen also has worked extensively with human rights organizations such as the Russian Federation for Amnesty International and Refugees International, documenting the lives of refugees in places like Chechnya, Afghanistan and Angola.

Allen has collaborated extensively with V-Day, a movement to end violence against women founded by playwright Eve Ensler. She has traveled to Cuba to photograph and interview members of the underground gay/lesbian community in Havana; to Juarez, Mexico, to document protests of murdered female factory workers; and to the Democratic Republic of Congo to document the genocide of women and girls and the building of a new community, the "City of Joy."

Currently, Allen is working on two book projects, one about the devastated lives of three families in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and a collaborative project following the journey of Windwalker, a Native American healer, and her daughter, Anagqus, through southern New Mexico.

Lou Douglas was a distinguished professor of political science at K-State from 1949 until 1977. He was widely known for his ability to inspire students, faculty and citizens to instigate change. He was a founder of the UFM Community Learning Center. After his death in 1979, the organization inaugurated the Lou Douglas Lecture Series on Public issues in his honor. More information on the lecture series is available at http://www.tryufm.org