The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School, along with USC Shoah Foundation, invite you to join Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow and University of Southern California President Carol Folt for an event celebrating Harvard University’s subscription to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive, making the archive available to the Harvard community. Harvard University affiliates can access the subscription through this Harvard Library database record.
How can we learn from lessons of the past to stop hate movements today? What role does the media play in stopping the spread of hateful ideologies? How are disinformation and media manipulation used as tools by extremist groups and individuals? How do current civil rights movements, like Black Lives Matter and Stop AAPI Hate, combat hateful ideologies today?
Opening Remarks:
- Lawrence S. Bacow, President of Harvard University
- Carol Folt, President of University of Southern California
Panel Discussion: Media scholars and experts on how to combat the rise of hate and the disinformation that spreads it.
- Marty Baron, American journalist, former editor of the Washington Post
- Cornell William Brooks, Director of William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice; Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations; Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Social, Harvard Kennedy School
- Joan Donovan, Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Stephen Smith, Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation
- Nancy Gibbs, Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy; Edward R. Murrow Professor of the Practice of Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School