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)