UVU International Student Services

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Pakistan: Partner or Pariah-October 5, 2009

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Dodge Billingsley will present for Utah Valley University’s Global Spotlight: South Asia Lecture Series. Billingsley’s lecture, “Pakistan: Partner or Pariah,” will address the U.S.-Pakistan relationship in fighting terrorism.

Billingsley founded Combat Films and Research in 1997 after covering war for years. He has since continued researching and documenting several regions of South and Southwest Asia. His films have been shown on CNN, Discovery Channel, Military Channel, The History Channel, The Learning Channel and PBS.

In 2003 Billingsley was a finalist for the prestigious Rory Peck award for Best Feature, for his film Virgin Soldiers. In 2002, he won the Rory Peck award and the Royal Television Society award, both for Best Feature, for the film House of War. Billingsley is a past recipient of the MacArthur Foundation’s Regional Security Travel Grant and is a frequent contributor to various defense and security-related journals. He received a BA in History from Columbia University and an MA in War Studies from King’s College Department of War Studies in London.












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