Jonny Steinberg, a South African author, journalist and scholar who has written extensively about the HIV/AIDS pandemic, will speak at Northwestern University on World AIDS Day, Thursday, Dec. 1. He will speak on “HIV/AIDS in African and Beyond: The Story the Media Missed” as part of the Gertrude and G.D. Crain Jr. Lecture Series.
His presentation is free, and will be at 4 p.m. in the McCormick Tribune Center Forum, 1870 Campus Drive, in Evanston. It is presented by Northwestern’s Program of African Studies in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and Medill.
Steinberg is the author of Sizwe’s Test: A Young Man’s Journey through Africa’s AIDS Epidemic, one of The Washington Post’s Best Books of 2008. Steinberg studied political theory on a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University’s Balliol College. Steinberg’s latest book, Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York, looks at the lives of Liberian refugees living in New York. He teaches African Studies at Oxford University.