By: Courtney Gross
The Princeton Public Library will host Rutgers University Professor Janet Larson on Sunday to discuss her recent trip to Afghanistan with human rights organization Global Exchange.
The program, titled "Afghanistan: Hope on a Pinpoint," will include Ms. Larson’s stories and photographs, which reveal what the people of Afghanistan are doing to recover from war and what they anticipate they will get from the United States.
"The Afghan government ministers, leaders of human rights, child rights and women’s organizations, cultural workers and ordinary people I met in and around the capital are striving under increasingly difficult conditions to build a peaceful and just society without a single bullet," Ms. Larson said in a prepared statement.
Ms. Larson teaches women’s studies and directs the master’s degree program in English at the Rutgers Newark campus. A founder of Rutgers Acts for Peace and Justice, a student, faculty and community group at Newark, Ms. Larson was previously a professional journalist before her teaching tenure.
The event is free and open to the public and will start at 4 p.m.

