Sessions featuring Nermeen Shaikh

Promoting media and higher education as a public good (Keynote)
Friday, June 14 | 9–10 am

  • Interviewer: Rob Cribb, Investigative and Foreign Affairs Journalist, Toronto Star
  • Maria Ressa, CEO and Executive Editor of Rappler.com and former CNN bureau chief in Manilla, Philippines
  • Nermeen Shaikh, Co-Host and News Producer at Democracy Now!, author of The Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power (Columbia University Press)

Cognitive dissonance: The response of higher education and media to the clash of democratic and populist values
Friday, June 14 | 2:20–3:20 pm

  • Moderator: Greg Kelly, Executive Producer, CBC Ideas
  • Tom Nichols, Professor of National Security Affairs, US Naval War College, author of The Death of Expertise
  • Lynn Pasquerella, President of the Association of American Colleges and Universities
  • Sophia Rosenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania; author of Democracy and Truth
  • Nermeen Shaikh, Co-Host and News Producer at Democracy Now!, author of The Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power (Columbia University Press)

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