From 9/11 to Today: The Forces That Shaped Two Decades of War Reporting
via ZoomJane Ferguson, a visiting McGraw Professor of Writing in the Program in Journalism, is an international correspondent for PBS NewsHour and a contributor to The New Yorker. Most recently based in Beirut, she has reported from throughout the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, and in 2019 won the George Polk Award for Foreign Television […]
What About the Workers?
WebinarJames A. Moffett '29 Lectures in Ethics A discussion of the changing ways in which work fits into the main ethical project: making a life. Globalization and automation are seen as posing challenges for many kinds of workers. What - if anything - can philosophy say about the appropriate social response? Kwame Anthony Appiah is a […]
Behind the Iconic Images in LIFE Magazine
WebinarA live webinar roundtable with contributors to the publication LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography as they discuss some of the magazine’s most recognizable, beloved, and controversial pictures based on new archival research. These scholars will consider how and why such images—including Alfred Eisenstaedt's VJ Day in Times Square and film stills of JFK's assassination—gained iconic status after first appearing […]
