WHO: John Lescroart, bestselling novelist (The Suspect is due to be published on Jan. 16) and a member of the UC Davis Foundation board

WHAT: College of Letters and Science quarterly speakers series

WHEN: 4:10 p.m. Jan. 31, followed by a reception

WHERE: Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center

ADMISSION: Free and open to the public

WHO: Kim Phuc, who at the age of 9, as she ran naked and screaming from a napalm attack, was the subject of a photo that would become an iconic image of the Vietnam War

WHAT: Forum@MC, a panel discussion on photojournalism, with Phuc and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Kim Komenich, along with UC Davis faculty, titled "Can an Image Change the World?"

Distinguished Speakers series, with Phuc delivering an address titled "Learning to Forgive"

WHEN: Forum@MC, 4 p.m. Feb. 5, and Distinguished Speakers talk, 8 p.m. Feb. 5

WHERE: Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

ADMISSION: The Forum@MC is free and open to the public.

Tickets are required for the Distinguished Speakers event, and are available through the Mondavi Center ticket office, (530) 754-2787 or (866) 754-2787, or www.mondaviarts.org

RELATED EVENT: Representation and War exhibition, photojournalism of war from the 1930s to today, Nelson Gallery, Room 124, Art Building, through March 18.