DURHAM, N.C. - Seymour Hersh, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, kicks off this year's Provost's Lecture Series at Duke University on Tuesday, Oct. 13, with a talk titled "A Report Card on Obama's Foreign Policy."

Hersh's lecture is from 5-6:30 p.m. in Page Auditorium on Duke's West Campus. This and other lectures in the series are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the parking deck next to the Bryan Center.

Hersh received a Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for reporting on the cover-up of the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War. In 2004 he exposed the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in a series of articles in The New Yorker.

The Provost's Lecture Series aims to inspire a year-long discussion of an issue of broad significance to society. Each speaker will discuss an aspect of this year's theme, "The Future of the Past, The Future of the Present: A Historical Record in the Digital Age."

A second lecture in the series is Monday, Oct. 26, and features Diana Taylor, founding director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University, a consortium of activists and artists who teach and study the interplay of art and politics.

Taylor's talk, "The Digital Age as Anti-Archive," will address the emerging challenges of the electronic archive in an era when everyone can be his or her own archivist. Taylor's lecture is from 5-6:30 p.m. in the Levine Science Research Center's Love Auditorium, also on West Campus.

More information on the Provost's Lecture Series is at www.provost.duke.edu/speaker_series.