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Events

Upcoming Events

On December 5, 2007, please join us as Institute Senior Researcher E.J. Graff moderates a Cambridge Forum event. Princeton sociologist Katherine Newman and Harvard doctoral student Victor Tan Chen discuss their book The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America, about the 57 million Americans caught between poverty and the middle class. The forum will take place at the First Parish (Unitarian Universalist) church in Harvard Square at 7:30 p.m. The event will later be broadcast on WGBH, and will be available for viewing on the web. For more information, click on the Cambridge Forum website.

Past Events

"Holding Power Acccountable: The Government, the News Media, and Democracy."

On October 30, 2007, Watergate's John W. Dean delivered the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism's inaugural lecture. Click for more information and a video of the event.

"Violence in Language, Art and Culture," Chicago Foundation for Women's annual luncheon and symposium, September 11, 2007,.

Institute senior researcher E.J. Graff spoke about violence and news coverage related to women, part of the Chicago Foundation for Women's annual luncheon and symposium. Click here for more information.

Sexual Harassment: Twenty Years After Meritor v. Vinson, June 12, 2006, The New School, New York City

E.J. Graff, Institute Senior Researcher, moderated a New School panel that she organized on how sexual harassment law affects women today, with a "dream team" of experts and practitioners in the field.

Brandeis Day of Innocence, March 22, 2006, with Sister Helen Prejean.

Please click here to see the streaming video of Sister Helen Prejean's keynote talk during this full day of events. The Day of Innocence was widely pronounced a resounding success, with three separate mentions in the Boston Globe and three in the Brandeis student newspaper, The Justice. Among its other mentions, The Justice editorialized in favor of an official Innocence Project at Brandeis.

After Innocence, Saturday, Feburary 18, 2006, Embassy Cinema, Waltham, MA

Pamela Cytrynbaum, Associate Director of the Brandeis Institute for Investigative Journalism, co-hosted a special event for the opening of the documentary film After Innocence, along with Dennis Maher, one of the local exonerees featured in the film.

After Innocence tells the dramatic and compelling story of the exonerated: innocent men who served prison terms -- some over 20 years -- after being wrongfully convicted, and then released after DNA evidence proved their innocence. The film focuses on the gripping story of seven men and their emotional journeys back into society and efforts to rebuild their lives. Included are a police officer, an army sergeant, and a young father sent to prison - and even death row - for decades for crimes they did not commit.

Directed by Academy Award nominated filmmaker Jessica Sanders, and produced and written by Jessica Sanders and Marc Simon, the documentary won a coveted Special Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. After Innocence won the Audience Award at the Boston Independent Film Festival, and won a Special Jury prize at the Newport Beach Film Festival. The film is currently showing in a variety of locations around the United States.

Amy Goldstein (April 6, 2005)
Amy Goldstein, who shared a Pulitzer Prize for her post 9/11 reporting for The Washington Post spoke at an Institute-sponsored event for Journalism Program students about the challenges of covering breaking stories.

Danny Schechter (March 31, 2005)
Danny Schechter, long-time journalist, screened his film Weapons of Mass Deception and held a Q&A session with students. In his exposé, Danny Schechter contends TV media are guilty of selling the Iraq War instead of telling the truth. His highly acclaimed documentary argues that the media cater to corporate powers by adopting a patriotic political correctness and a uniformity of perspective that is undermining democracy in America.

Mimi Gurbst (March 30, 2005)
Mimi Gurbst, Brandeis alumnus and ABC vice president of news coverage who is responsible for the day-to-day and long-term coverage of news as well as the ABC bureaus around the world, talked to students about how technology is changing the role of the major networks in informing the public.

Asra Nomani (March 23, 2005)
Asra Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, talked about how the beheading of her close friend Danny Pearl led her on a personal quest for Muslim women’s rights. She became the first woman to walk in the front door of her mosque and launched a historic revolution for Muslim women’s rights in the mosque and in the bedroom. Nomani broke new ground and Muslim tradition by conducting two mixed gender prayers services at Brandeis --one at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center, the other outside campus chapels representing Jewish, Catholic and Protestant religions.  

Ben Bradlee (December 1, 2004)
Former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee talked about how journalism has changed since the heyday of Watergate when he led the history-making team of editors and reporters, especially Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Bradlee also addressed issues about how the government continues to frame information presented to the public and the importance of investigative journalism. Although he refused to reveal the name of "Deep Throat," he did acknowledge the famous source is definitely a man. 

Tom Friedman (October 18, 2004)
Brandeis alumnus and New York Times three-time Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Tom Friedman helped kick off the Institute during a series of events October 18 that included a Q&A session with journalism students, a cocktail celebration at the Chestnut Hill home of $1 million founding contributors, Elaine and Gerry Schuster, and a standing room only address by him at Spingold Theater.