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"America's Role in Preserving Peace and Prosperity" is a thought-provoking six-lecture series delving into the critical challenges facing the United States in maintaining global stability and economic well-being.
July 10: U.S. Global Leadership Challenged
Speaker: Tori Holt (Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding)
July 17: Autocracy’s Rise, Sharp Power, and the Growing Threat to Democracy
Speaker: Christopher Walker (Vice President for Studies and Analysis, National Endowment for Democracy)
July 24: Climate Change—Its Impact on Prosperity
Speaker: Virginia Burkett (Chief Scientist, Climate & Land Use Change, USGS)
July 31: DRIVEN OUT: Human Displacement and the Challenge of Forced Migration
Speaker: James Hollifield (Southern Methodist University)
August 7: Disinformation, Misinformation—Finding the Truth
Panelists: Dick Tofel (Gallatin Advisory LLC), Brandy Zadrozny (NBC News), Joel Simon (Founding Director, Journalism Protection Initiative, CUNY)
August 14: Geopolitics, Lessons From the Cold War, and the Way Forward
Speaker: Sarah Paine (William S. Sims Univ. Professor, U.S. Naval War College)
July 10
U.S. Global Leadership Challenged
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America’s Role in Preserving Peace and Prosperity
U.S. Global Leadership Challenged
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Tori Holt
Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College
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Authoritarianism - A World-Wide Threat
Climate Change - Its Impact on Prosperity
Victoria K. Holt is the Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding. She joined Dartmouth in September 2021, with a background in public policy, leadership and diplomacy. In Washington, DC, she served as Vice President at the Henry L. Stimson Center, a research and policy institute focused on international affairs, and directed the Transforming Conflict and Governance program. Earlier Holt was tapped to be Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Security, Bureau of International Organization Affairs (IO), and served at the State Department from 2009 to early 2017. In that role, she was responsible for policy and guidance for actions in the UN Security Council and oversaw the Offices of Peace Operations, Sanctions & Counterterrorism and UN Political Affairs. Holt led the development of U.S. diplomatic initiatives, including the 2015 Leaders’ Summit on U.N. Peacekeeping, hosted by President Obama to increase capacities for UN operations.
Population Crisis - Immigration, Migration, Refugees
Disinformation, Misinformation - Finding the Truth
July 17
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U.S. Global Leadership Challenged
Autocracy’s Rise, Sharp Power, and the Growing Threat to Democracy
America’s Role in Preserving Peace and Prosperity
This session co-sponsored by:
Authoritarianism - A World-Wide Threat
Christopher Walker
Vice President for Studies and Analysis, National Endowment for Democracy
Climate Change - Its Impact on Prosperity
Population Crisis - Immigration, Migration, Refugees
Christopher Walker is Vice President for Studies and Analysis at the National Endowment for Democracy, an independent, nonprofit, grant-making foundation supporting freedom around the world. Walker oversees the department that is responsible for NED’s multifaceted analytical efforts, which pursues its goals through several interrelated initiatives: the leading edge work of the International Forum for Democratic Studies, which undertakes a diverse range of analytical initiatives to explore critical themes relating to democratic development; the Journal of Democracy, the world’s leading publication on the theory and practice of democracy; the Reagan-Fascell fellowship program for international democracy activists, journalists, and scholars; and the Center for International Media Assistance, which is dedicated to improving efforts to promote independent media in emerging democracies and developing economies around the world.
Disinformation, Misinformation - Finding the Truth
Prior to joining the NED, Walker was Vice President for Strategy and Analysis at Freedom House. Walker has testified before legislative committees in the U.S. and abroad, appears frequently in the media, and frequently conducts briefings on critical issues relating to democratic development. He has been at the forefront of the thought leadership on authoritarian influence on democratic systems, including through the exertion of sharp power, a concept he and his colleagues developed. His articles have appeared in numerous publications, including the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and the Journal of Democracy. He is co-editor (with Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner) of Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy (2016), and co-editor (with Jessica Ludwig) of Sharp Power: Rising Authoritarian Influence (2017). He is a co-editor with William J. Dobson and Tarek Masoud of the book Defending Democracy in an Age of Sharp Power (2023).
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America’s Role in Preserving Peace and Prosperity
U.S. Global Leadership Challenged
July 24 Climate Change— Its Impact on Prosperity
Authoritarianism - A World-Wide Threat
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Climate Change - Its Impact on Prosperity
Virginia Burkett
Chief Scientist for Climate and Land Use Change
U.S. Geological Survey, Office of International Programs
U.S. Department of the Interior
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Population Crisis - Immigration, Migration, Refugees
Virginia Burkett is a graduate of Northwestern State University of Louisiana, where she received her Bachelor of Science and her Master of Science degrees in zoology and botany, respectively. Her doctoral degree in forestry was awarded from Stephen F. Austin State University in 1996. She began her research career at Louisiana State University’s Sea Grant program, followed by progressively responsible leadership positions in science and natural resources management at the state and federal level.
Disinformation, Misinformation - Finding the Truth
Dr. Burkett has published roughly 100 journal articles, book chapters and reports that focus on wetlands, global change, and low-lying coastal systems. She was a Lead Author of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third, Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports and the IPCC Technical Paper on Water. She was also a Lead Author of the First, Second and Third US National Climate Assessments.
She has served as Chair of the $2.6 billion US Global Change Research Program and as USGS Associate Director for Climate and Land Use Change. Prior to leading climate change science at USGS, Burkett was Chief of the Forest Ecology Branch at the USGS National Wetlands Research Center. Prior to her work at USGS, Burkett was Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, where she formerly served as Deputy Secretary.
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Dr. Burkett is a US delegate to the international Group on Earth Observations (GEO), which coordinates the collection and delivery of satellite and in-situ Earth Observations from 114 nations. She is Co-Chair of GEO’s Climate Change Working Group and an US Alternate Principal to AmeriGEO (21 countries in the Western Hemisphere). She served as a Senior Editor of the journal Regional Environmental Change (2012-2022) and is an Editor of the journal Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics
Burkett has been appointed to over 70 Commissions, Committees, Science Panels and Boards during her career. She currently serves as Co-Principal representative of the US Department of Interior to the US Global Change Research Program. She currently represents the US Department of the Interior on the National Academies’ Climate Security Roundtable. She is a member of the Louisiana Governor’s Climate Initiatives Task Force and is the Co-Chair of the Science Advisory Group to the Task Force. She co-chairs the International Activities Working Group of the U.S. Group on Earth Observations.
July 31
Authoritarianism - A World-Wide Threat Climate Change - Its Impact on Prosperity
DRIVEN OUT: Human Displacement and the Challenge of Forced Migration
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Disinformation, Misinformation - Finding the Truth
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Ora Nixon Arnold Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Political Science, SMU Director of the Tower Center at SMU
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James F. Hollifield is Ora Nixon Arnold Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Political Science, and Director of the Tower Center at Southern Methodist University. He also is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC and a member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations. Hollifield is a scholar of international and comparative political economy, and he has written widely on issues of political and economic development, with a focus on migration. In addition to many scientific articles, his major books are Immigrants, Markets and States (Harvard UP 1992), L’Immigration et l’Etat Nation (L’Harmattan 1997), Pathways to Democracy (Routledge, 2000), Migration, Trade and Development (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas 2009), Herausforderung Migration— Perspektiven der vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft (Lit Verlag 2006), and more recently Understanding Global Migration (Stanford UP 2022) and Controlling Immigration 4th edition (Stanford UP 2022), Migration Theory 4th edition (Routledge 2023), and International Political Economy: History, Theory and Policy (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Hollifield has served as an advisor for governments around the world and for many international organizations on matters of migration and human and economic development. In 2016, Hollifield received a Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Studies Association. In 2021-22 he was named as a Fellow of the French Institute for Advanced Studies in Paris, and in 2023 he received a Career Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association.
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Population Crisis - Immigration, Migration, Refugees
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Dick Tofel
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Principal, Gallatin Advisory LLC, author of Second Rough Draft
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Richard Tofel is the principal of Gallatin Advisory LLC and author of the newsletter Second Rough Draft. He was the founding general manager (and first employee) of ProPublica from 2007-2012, and its president from 2013 until 2021. As president, he had responsibility for all of ProPublica’s non-journalism operations, including communications, legal, development, finance and budgeting, and human resources. During the period of Tofel’s business leadership, ProPublica published stories that won seven Pulitzer Prizes.
Tofel is an Instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he led a faculty seminar on “The Pandemic, the Press, and Public Health” and teaches a course on “Engaging with the Press.” He was formerly the assistant publisher of The Wall Street Journal, with responsibility for its international editions and U.S. special editions, and, earlier, an assistant managing editor of the paper, vice president, corporate communications for Dow Jones & Company, and an assistant general counsel of Dow Jones. Just prior to ProPublica, he served as vice president, general counsel, and secretary of the Rockefeller Foundation.
August 7 Disinformation, Misinformation— Finding the Truth
Population
This session sponsored by:
fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny
thinking
falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy investigation fraud
authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking
Disinformation, Misinformation - Finding the Truth
falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction fraud exaggeration
bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud authenticity spin
fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception
Brandy Zadrodzny
distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit
Features reporter, NBC News
slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity credibility falsehood fabrication transparency
The Way Forward
Brandy Zadrozny is an award-winning digital and television investigative and features reporter for NBC News, where she covers disinformation, extremism, and the internet. She is a former research fellow at the Technology and Social Change Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, and host of the NBC News’ podcast, “Tiffany Dover is Dead.”
August 7
Disinformation, Misinformation— Finding the Truth
Population Crisis - Immigration, Migration, Refugees
This session sponsored by:
Disinformation, Misinformation - Finding the Truth
Joel Simon
Founding Director, Journalism Protection Initiative, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at City University of New York
fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources critical thinking integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny integrity misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking misleading credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity credibility falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification fact-checking sources scrutiny critical thinking integrity misleading falsehood fabrication transparency deception hoax research manipulation distortion propaganda corroboration rumor conspiracy fiction investigation fraud exaggeration authenticity spin speculation bias inaccuracy deceit validation sham slander verification
The Way Forward
Joel Simon is the founding director of the Journalism Protection Initiative at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. During 2022, he served as a fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Knight First Amendment Institute also at Columbia.
Joel grew up in Brooklyn in the 1970s.. He moved to the Bay Area after college, and then to Guatemala, where he began his career as a journalist. Joel covered the Guatemalan conflict, with reporting forays into El Salvador and later Cuba. For the next decade, he divided his time between Mexico and California. In Mexico, he covered the Zapatista uprising, the peso devaluation, and the assassination of the Presidential Candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio. In 1998, Joel published Endangered Mexico: An Environment on the Edge. It was named one of the 100 best books of the year by the LA Times.
In 1998, Joel took a job as America’s program coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists in New York. In 2006, he was named executive director. During his 15-year tenure, Joel traveled the world, from Argentina to Zimbabwe, to defend the rights of journalists. Joel has written widely on press freedom issues and done media appearances and public events in the US and around the world.
In 2015, Joel published his second book, The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom. His third book, We Want to Negotiate The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom, examines the ethics of paying ransom to terrorist groups. It was inspired by the kidnapping and murder of James Foley and other journalists by Islamic State militants in Syria. HIs latest book, co-authored with Robert Mahoney, is The Infodemic: How Censorship and Lies Made the World Sicker and Less Free.
August 14
determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity cooperation vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination vision persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation persistence courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision courage endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence endurance adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage adaptability experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation resilience evolution renewal growth exploration initiative creativity flexibility change collaboration empowerment resourcefulness ingenuity determination cooperation vision persistence courage endurance experimentation leadership progress adaptation innovation
Population Crisis - Immigration, Migration, Refugees
Disinformation, Misinformation - Finding the Truth
Geopolitics, Lessons From the Cold War, and the Way Forward
This session sponsored by:
The Way Forward
Sarah C.M. Paine
William S. Sims University Professor, U.S. Naval War College
Sarah C. M. Paine is William S. Sims University Professor of History and Grand Strategy in the Strategy & Policy Department of the U.S. Naval War College. Nine years of research in Australia, China, Japan, Russia, and Taiwan form the basis for her publications: The Japanese Empire (Cambridge, 2017); Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 (Cambridge, 2012, Gelber prize longlist; Leopold Prize and PROSE award for European & World History), The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 (Cambridge, 2003), and Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier (M. E. Sharpe, 1996, Jelavich prize). She has also written: Nation Building, State Building, and Economic Development (edited, M.E. Sharpe, 2010); Modern China: Continuity and Change 1644 to the Present, 2nd ed. (co-author with Bruce A. Elleman, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019); and five naval books: Naval Blockades and Seapower: Strategies and Counter-Strategies 1805-2005; Naval Coalition Warfare: From the Napoleonic War to Operation Iraqi Freedom; Naval Power and Expeditionary Warfare: Peripheral Campaigns and New Theaters of Naval Warfare; Commerce Raiding: Historical Case Studies, 1755-2009; and Navies and Soft Power: Historical Case Studies of Naval Power and the Nonuse of Military Force (all co-edited with Bruce A. Elleman, Routledge, 2006-11; Naval War College Press 2014-15). Most recently she co-edited with Andrea J. Dew and Marc A. Genest, From Quills to Tweets: How America Communicates about War and Revolution (Georgetown University Press, 2019). Her degrees include: BA Latin American Studies, Harvard University; MIA Columbia University School for International and Public Affairs; certificates from both the East Asian and Russian Institutes; MA Russian, Middlebury College; and PhD history, Columbia University. She is currently working on a history of the Cold War from 1917-1991, and three edited books on fleets in being, sanctions, and World War II Pacific.
Accessible Entrance to the Opera House
There is an accessible entrance to the Lebanon Opera House (marked “City Hall Main Entrance”) located on the east side of the building. This entrance provides access to the elevator.
Ticket-holders can proceed directly to the theater entrance on level 3R; to collect or purchase a ticket, visit the ‘Will Call’ and ticket sales tables in the lobby on level 2. Restrooms are available on level 2.
Public Transport
Access to the Opera House
Left: The accessible entrance, seen from the front of the building.
Right: The accessible entrance, seen from the back of the building.
Advance Transit offers free transportation into Lebanon from several points around the Upper Valley. There is an Advance Transit bus stop directly in front of the Opera House; both the Blue (Hanover to Lebanon) and Red (West Lebanon to Lebanon) lines stop at this location several times a day. Visit advancetransit.com for full details and schedules for each line.
Health
& Safety Information
In-person attendees have the option to wear a mask on Lebanon Opera House premises, but are not required to do so. At the time of publication, there is no requirement regarding verification of vaccination status. Please check our website at osher.dartmouth.edu for information regarding any changes to these requirements. We will do our best to mail updated information to registrants prior to the series start date.
Parking Information
NOTE: Court Street is closed to traffic during the summer months. You can access most of the large public parking lots listed below via Hanover Street or Campbell Street.
Public Parking
There is free public parking throughout downtown Lebanon. Be aware of time limits, which can vary. We recommend use of all-day spaces.
Court Street/Flint Street Lot: Located directly behind the Opera House. Look for the posted signs to identify the all-day spaces.
Taylor Street Lot: The largest public, all-day lot in the downtown area, located behind the Opera House and adjacent to the CCBA tennis courts and soccer pens (nearest the Mascoma River). A set of stairs leads from this lot to the Court Street level, or you can use the ramped sidewalk located at the western end of the lot (near the sign for Ledyard Charter School).
Hanover Street Lot: Not recommended, as spaces here are limited to 2-hour parking.
Colburn Park: There are no all-day spaces around the park.
Streetside Parking: Limited spaces are available along Bank Street and Campbell Street.
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There are ample handicap spaces available throughout the downtown area; these spaces are subject to any posted time restrictions.
Please visit osher.dartmouth.edu/parking for updates regarding parking.
Visit Lebanon’s parking info page at https://lebanonnh.gov/faq.aspx?qid=654.
Registration
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DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
One Court St, Suite 380
Lebanon, NH 03766
JULY 10
U.S. Global Leadership Challenged
JULY 17
Autocracy’s Rise, Sharp Power, and the Growing Threat to Democracy
JULY 24
Climate Change— Its Impact on Prosperity
JULY 31
Driven Out— Human Displacement and the Challenge of Forced Migration
AUGUST 7
Disinformation, Misinformation— Finding the Truth
AUGUST 14
Geopolitics, Lessons From the Cold War, and the Way Forward
Wednesdays, July 10 - August 14
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM Lebanon Opera