Past Events
Co-sponsored by Broad Recognition; The Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; DOWN Magazine; Poynter Fellowship; Public Humanities at Yale; and Saybrook College.
How do we write about where we’re not from? Can we write about “others,” and how should we? Foreign correspondents have come under attack both for budgetary reasons (they’re expensive), and ethical ones (“locals” should tell their own stories). In this talk, Jina Moore will argue for the virtues of foreign correspondence. Outsiders can cultivate the ability to see new or different sides of insiders’ problems and strengths, and share them with the world. Ms. Moore will speak about how to develop the skill of conveying the full humanity of one’s subjects, even in the context of editorial prejudices and while reckoning with the forms of privilege that shape people’s lives.
Co-sponsored by: Yale’s Asian American Cultural Center, Yale Schwarzman Center, Yale English Department and Yale Office of Career Strategies
Moderated by Emily Bazelon, Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School
Please join Ben Taub, staff writer for The New Yorker, for a wide-ranging discussion about war, law, and journalism. Drawing on his extensive reporting from Syria and Iraq, Taub will discuss efforts by human rights activists, lawyers, and journalists to hold war criminals to account, and the effect of impunity on the conduct of war in the Middle East and Europe. He will also answer questions about his experience reporting on an array of subjects everywhere from the arctic to the ocean floor, and will discuss the state of long-form investigative journalism today. Emily Bazelon, staff writer at the New York Times Magazine and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, will moderate.
In-person seating is limited, please click here to register for either in-person or virtual attendance: https://cglink.me/2dA/r1550214
Co-sponsored by the Global Justice Program.