search articles:     from the issue of November 4, 2004         Lessons of Afghan conflict are topic of Forum Roy Gutman, foreign editor at Newsday, will speak on "Afghanistan and Lessons Learned" at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The lecture is part of the 2004-05 E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues and is free and open to the public.     GUTMAN Gutman won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for "A Witness to Genocide," a compilation of his reporting in Bosnia. He is author of Banana Diplomacy: The Making of American Policy in Nicaragua 1981-1987 (1988) and co-editor with essayist David Rieff of Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know (1999). Gutman will sign books after his lecture. In his coverage of the war in Bosnia, Gutman provided the first documented reports of concentration camps. His assignments have included postings as Newsday's European bureau chief and as Reuters' Belgrade bureau chief and State Department correspondent. He has been a Washington-based national security reporter for Newsday, where he has worked for 19 years, and reported for Reuters from Bonn, Vienna, London and Washington. He also has been an adjunct professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a Jennings Randolph senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace. This lecture will be broadcast live on the UNL Web site at www.unl.edu/, UNL radio station KRNU (90.3 FM) and Channel 21 on Time Warner Cable television in Lincoln. David Feingold, assistant general manager of content at Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, will give a pre-forum talk at 3 p.m. in the Lied Center's Steinhart Room. The Thompson Forum series, a cooperative project of the Cooper Foundation, the Lied Center for Performing Arts and UNL, has a mission of promoting better understanding of world events and issues to all Nebraskans. In 1990, the name of the series was changed in honor of E.N. "Jack" Thompson (1913-2002), who served as president of the Cooper Foundation from 1964 to 1990 and as its chairman from 1990 until his death. GO TO: ISSUE OF NOVEMBER 4 NEWS HEADLINES FOR NOVEMBER 4 Alumna Donates Flags That Flew in Afghanistan Cather scholar Rosowski dies Professor to speak on Muslim cultures Study looks at oxygen in our past Teaching project builds on successes A Piece of University History Lessons of Afghan conflict are topic of Forum Professor helps track election results, projections 731889S33862X