On November 4, John Prendergast delivered an S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture titled "The Good News from Africa: Success Stories and Their Implications." Prendergast, an activist, author, and co-founder of the Enough Project, an initiative to end genocide, detailed some of the misconceptions about Africa today, and cited popular film examples that fail to dispel misconceptions about Africa's progress concerning issues like the diamond trade or Rwanda's current political atmosphere. Prendergast is spending his two weeks at Stanford giving a variety of talks, including a conversation with George Clooney on November 8 about the southern Sudanese independence referendum that will be held in January 2011.