Politics in the Time of Global Pandemic

Politics in the Time of Global Pandemic

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The Covid-19 pandemic is a global event unlike any other experienced in the contemporary era. It’s size, scope, reach, and implications are enormous, ongoing, and unequal. Outcomes-from how people all over the world will live their daily lives to whether democracy will survive-are all in question.
Come into our virtual classroom to delve deeper into the pandemic-related themes we will explore in this survey course for everyone.
Mahrukh Doctor, Vivien Schmidt, and Sebastián Royo, all experts with a global focus, will discuss the differential impact of the pandemic around the world, and the differential responses across nations, comparing countries, regions, and states in the context of democracy, populism, public trust, and compliance.
This Suffolk University lecture series presented with Ford Hall Forum and WGBH is designed to be a broad survey of themes most of interest to political scientists and public policy experts and is part of a novel online summer course for incoming Suffolk students.

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A MESSAGE FROM FORD HALL FORUM AT SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY

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In this moment of sorrow and rage, Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University mourns the death of George Floyd, a tragedy for his children, siblings, his friends, our nation, and the world. The Forum recognizes also the violent deaths of many others, among them Breonna Taylor,
Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Shaun Fuhr, Michael Brown, and Tamir Rice. Insidious violence inflicted upon Black men, women, and children has continued for over 400 years.

Join us in September for the start of the new Ford Hall Forum program year, where we will engage in forums exploring social justice and human rights issues. Among the topics we seek to explore are the policing of Black men and women, the roots of American protest, the pandemic, the 2020 election, and economic, education, and health disparities among Black and Latinx Americans. The nation is on the precipice of a tipping point, and the only way to make it over the enormous hurdles that lie ahead is to have the difficult conversations to learn, to grow, and to advocate for change. That is what Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University does best.

Politics in the Time of Global Pandemic

Threats to the Press Around the World- Robert Mahoney

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The Masterman Speaker Series on the First Amendment and the Fourth Estate and Suffolk University’s Ford Hall Forum welcome

Robert Mahoney,
Deputy Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists for a lecture on Threats to the Press Around the World

Around the world journalists face threats, false arrests, and violence.  Here in the United States high-ranking government officials and politicians attack the press in increasingly strident terms.  Join us as we welcome Robert Mahoney of the Committee to Protect Journalists to discuss the state of press freedom around the world and how rhetoric in the United States imperils journalists in other nations and emboldens their critics.

Tuesday, April 15, 2020 at 4:00 pm
First Floor Function Room
Sargent Hall
120 Tremont St., Boston, MA 02108

Reception to follow

About our speaker

Robert Mahoney is the Deputy Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide. Mr. Mahoney joined CPJ in August 2005 as senior editor and became CPJ’s deputy director in January 2007. He has worked as a journalist in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. He reported on politics and economics for Reuters news agency from Brussels and Paris in the late 1970s, and from Southeast Asia in the early 1980s. Mahoney covered South Asia from Delhi for three years from 1985, reporting on the aftermath of Indira Gandhi’s assassination, the civil war in Sri Lanka, and the fallout from the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. In 1988, he became Reuters bureau chief for West and Central Africa, based in the Ivory Coast and spending considerable time in Liberia covering the civil war. He served as Reuters Jerusalem bureau chief from 1990 to 1997, directing print and, later, television coverage of the Palestinian intifada, the Iraqi missile attacks on Israel, the Oslo peace process, and the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Mahoney worked as chief correspondent in Germany from 1997 to 1999 before moving to London to become news editor of politics and general news for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. In 2004, he taught journalism for the Reuters Foundation in the Middle East, and worked as a consultant for Human Rights Watch.

About the Masterman Speaker Series

Some of the most polarizing and provocative issues of our time involve matters rooted in the First Amendment. Edward I. Masterman, JD ’50, LLD ’90 and his wife Sydell, established the Masterman Speaker Series on the First Amendment and the Fourth Estate to provide a forum for robust debate and exchange of ideas on freedom of the press and its attendant responsibilities. The Speaker Series brings together representatives from government, the legal profession, and the press for the purposes of informing, educating, and engaging those who care deeply about these issues.

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Politics in the Time of Global Pandemic

Puritans, Native Americans, and Historians:

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A Conversation about New England’s Conflicted Past

Please join us Thursday, October 25th from 6-7:30pm for this free lecture at the Suffolk University Modern Theatre at 525 Washington St in Boston.

Public commemorations have become a difficult business in recent years, often provoking sharp conflict about the meaning and implications of the past. With the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival in Plymouth fast approaching, the Congregational Library & Archives, Suffolk University, and the Ford Hall Forum are sponsoring an important conversation about remembering and memorializing that event, bringing together leading scholars of Puritanism and Native American history.

Presenters:
Jean O’Brien, University of Minnesota, a White Earth Ojibwe and author of Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England (2010).

Lisa Blee, Wake Forest University, author of Framing Chief Leschi: Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice (2014)

David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School, author of A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Pubic Life in New England (2011)

Marty Blatt, Professor of the Practice in History and Director of Public History Program at Northeastern

This is a program of New England Beginnings, co-sponsored by the Congregational Library & Archives, Suffolk University, and the Ford Hall Forum.