Poynter Events
2017
Decades ago dedicated, long term institutional care for the mentally ill was virtually done away with in America, as many of the old and often notorious “mental asylums” were shut down. The intention was that new and better community care projects would replace the asylums over time. But instead now vast numbers of the mentally ill find themselves in criminal lock ups. Around 50% of America’s prison and jail inmates report mental illness. Corrections facilities are ill-equipped to deal with mental illness, and guards often resort to brutal methods of controlling this inmate population. This shocking film looks at reality of Bedlam Behind Bars.
Join us for this conversation between the BBC’s Hilary Andersson, an award winning journalist and film maker, and Belabbès Benkredda, a Pauli Murray College Fellow. Anderson will discuss paths to counter misinformation, disinformation, fake news, and echo chambers in what is often called the “post fact era”. Her presentation will be followed by an interview, and a Q&A open to all guests.
Boodman will talk with Carl Zimmer ‘87, Yale MB&B professor adjunct and New York Times columnist, about becoming a science journalist, finding great stories, and producing compelling articles.
What is the proper analytical lens for an architecture critic? Should he or she focus on buildings as aesthetic objects or view them in a broader framework that accounts for the pragmatic realities of politics and business? And is it enough to simply look at buildings? Or is all of design, from a 6-by-12 inch license plate to President Trump’s proposed 1,000-mile border wall, fair game? This keynote lecture, part of a symposium marking the 50th anniversary of the Master of Environmental Design program at the Yale School of Architecture, will explore these tensions through case studies that recount impactful critiques of the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago and an award-winning series of articles about the problems and promise of Chicago’s great public space, its lakefront.
Co-sponsored by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies and the Schell Center at Yale Law School
Wade joins a panel with James C Scott, Sterling Professor Political Science at Yale and Kyaw Hsan Hlaing, a Burmese peace activist working on Rohingya issues.
The Rohingya, a Muslim minority of Burma of approximately one million people, are enduring a protracted and ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign. In September alone the Myanmar military burned hundreds of villages and forced nearly half a million to flee to Bangladesh. Journalist Francis Wade, the author of Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim ‘Other’ (2017), joins a panel of scholars and activists to explore the deep roots of these events, examining how violent prejudices were nurtured by the military and activated during the democratic transition, and what potential there is for peace and security in Burma not only for the Rohingya but for the country’s other minorities.
Conversation 1
Jeff Ballou, news editor at Al Jazeera Media Network and the 110th President of the National Press Club, in conversation with Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, the author of “How Propaganda Works,” along with Mort Rosenblum, a reporter, author and educator, who has covered stories on seven continents since the 1960s. Rosenblum’s books include Coup and Earthquakes: Reporting the World for America; and Who Stole the News?
Conversation 2
Yevgenia Albats, editor-in-chief of the Moscow-based independent political weekly the New Times, in conversation with Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Snyder is the author of “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.”
The event is free and open to everyone.
Co-sponsored by The Politic
Co-sponsored by Sage Magazine and F&ES Class of 1980 Fund
