Stanford Report, May 17, 2006

Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel to give lecture

Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel will present a lecture, "Against Indifference: Reflections on 'Never Again,'" at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 21, in Memorial Auditorium.

Wiesel, 78, was born in Transylvania, now Romania, and was deported with his family by the Nazis to Auschwitz when he was 15. Wiesel is the author of more than 40 books, including the memoir Night, which describes his experience in the death camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Wiesel is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founder, with his wife, Marion, of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.

Tickets for Wiesel's lecture are free with Stanford identification (SUID). SUID holders may obtain a maximum of three tickets (for important details, visit the web at http://speakers.stanford.edu/bios/wiesel.html). Tickets will be available on Thursday, May 18, and Friday, May 19, from noon to 1 p.m. at White Plaza. Tickets also will be available for graduate students only from 9 to 10 p.m. Thursday at the Graduate Community Center.

Advance tickets for the general public are sold out. Wiesel's appearance is sponsored by the ASSU (Associated Students) Speakers Bureau, Hillel at Stanford, the Jewish Students Association and Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND).