December 15, 2018 14:00-15:00 Speakers: Michael Rich, President, RAND Alain Gresh, Editor, OrientXXI Ahmed Elmagarmid, Executive director, QCRI Nicholas Enfield, Director, Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Institute, University of Sydney Steve Clemons (moderator), Editor-at-Large, The Atlantic ...
Lecture within the WZB public event series "Achtung: Demokratie", held on January 17, 2018 at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center There are many signs that we have entered a ‘post-truth’ era defined by the burial of ‘objective facts’ thanks to a public avalanche of ‘appeals...
This panel discussion dissects the current state of public discourse around truth, evidence, and reason, and associated questions including trust, faith, and identity. Our international panellists are at the forefront of current debate on rational discourse and the post-truth crisis. In this Sydney Ideas event, hosted...
Alexander Heffner, host of The Open Mind on PBS, tells Beverley O'Connor the US is experiencing a "crisis of incivility". Originally published on ABC The World...
A speech delivered by Sarah Haider at the Post-Truth Initiative End of Year Event "Is Truth Dead? From Power and the Media to Science and Reason" on 20 November 2017 Sarah Haider Ex-Muslims of North America Sarah is an American writer, speaker, and activist. Born in Pakistan and...
A speech delivered by Alexander Heffner at the Post-Truth Initiative End of Year Event "Is Truth Dead? From Power and the Media to Science and Reason" on 20 November 2017 Alexander Heffner The Open Mind, PBS Alexander Heffner was a special correspondent for PBS’s Need to Know chronicling...
A speech delivered by Helen Pluckrose at the Post-Truth Initiative End of Year Event "Is Truth Dead? From Power and the Media to Science and Reason" on 20 November 2017 Helen Pluckrose Areo Magazine Helen Pluckrose is a researcher in the humanities who focuses on late medieval/early modern...
A speech delivered by Professor Tom Nichols at the Post-Truth Initiative End of Year Event "Is Truth Dead? From Power and the Media to Science and Reason" on 20 November 2017 Tom Nichols U.S. Naval War College Tom Nichols is a Professor of National Security Affairs at the...
This is part of the Festival of Democracy 2017 Rob Wijnberg, De Correspondent Chair: Professor Peter Fray Comments by Lenore Taylor, The Guardian Australia Co-hosted by Sydney Ideas, Post-Truth Initiative, UTS School of Communication and Sydney Democracy Network The Great Hall, the Quadrangle | 14 September 6pm Our news is broken. It informs us most about the least...
Co-hosted by Sydney Ideas, the Post-Truth Initiative and the Sydney Democracy Network This is part of the Festival of Democracy 2017 There are many signs we’ve entered a ‘post-truth’ era defined by the burial of ‘objective facts’ thanks to a public avalanche of ‘appeals to emotion and personal belief’ (OED). Critics...