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English majors hear a lot of dire statements about the less-than-abundant job prospects awaiting them after graduation, but many remain hopeful about their futures despite these nerve-wracking warnings. Some are interested in going into journalism, a field that seems particularly risky to enter in the digital age. At a recent Berkeley Connect in English event, Professor Mark Danner spoke with students about his experiences as a journalist and academic, and delivered a welcome message: despite the uncertainty involved in pursuing a career in an industry that is very much in flux, it’s not entirely hopeless!
February 16, 2016
Mark Danner discusses Washington's Counterterrorism Strategy on a virtual roundtable with Peter Leyden, Rachel Kleinfeld, Stephen Walt and Suzanna Nossel. Part of the ReInvent media series.
December 08, 2015
Mark Danner delivers a talk on the Islamic State and the War on Terror at the Bard Human Rights Project, Bard College.
December 01, 2015
Spiraling Down: Human Rights, Endless War The Frances Tarlton "Sissy" Farenthold Inaugural Lecture in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights Eldman Courtroom, Texas Law School University of Texas, Austin
October 22, 2015
A conversation hosted by the Asia Society of New York, with Mark Danner, Orville Schell, Taisu Zhang, Andrew J. Nathan, Timothy Garton Ash, and Daniel A. Bell.
October 15, 2015
When Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, the Al Qaeda terrorist with a $25 million bounty on his head, decided to show to the world videotapes of the planning and execution of his terror attacks, he delivered them to Michael Ware. Ware, a reporter for Time magazine and CNN, brought the grisly footage to the world’s attention, making it clear that for the U.S. any victory in Iraq was very far off. At the 2015 Telluride Film Festival, Ware and co-director Bill Guttentag spoke with Mark Danner about the film.
September 01, 2015
Appearance at the American Library Association Convention, Moscone Center, San Francisco.
June 28, 2015
The Secret State: The Rise of National Surveillance and the Conflict Between Freedom and Security Mark Danner, Karen Paget, Robert Scheer, Edward Wasserman Bay Area Book Festival Brower Center, Goldman Theater, Berkeley, CA June 7, 2015
June 07, 2015
Transforming Terror Mark Danner, Claudia Bernardi, Rebecca Solnit, Susan Griffin Bay Area Book Festival Brower Center, Kinzie Conference Room, Berkeley, CA
June 6, 2015
June 06, 2015
Mark Danner and Carlotta Gall discuss coverage of "the USA Freedom Act" limiting the NSA's domestic surveillance powers, and the declassified interviews with a former Guantanamo Bay detainee on KALW's Your Call.
June 05, 2015
Panel discussion with Mark Danner and fiction writers Anthony Marra and Nayomi Munaweera as part of the first annual Oakland Book Festival at Oakland City Hall.
May 31, 2015
Mark Danner debates former Bush Administration speech writer, Marc Thiessen, against the notion, "America should exercise its power and straighten out the Middle East."
March 31, 2015
Berkeley Law Symposium on Torture, Security and Law Robert Cole, Mark Danner, Rebecca Gordon, Jameel Jaffer, Bill Roller (Moderator) This symposium seeks to promote a heightened awareness of the responsibilities of lawyers, the organized bar, law schools and law students in the context of torture.
February 12, 2015
From Bard's Human Rights Project website, "Nuruddin Farah is an internationally renown novelist and essayist, who has been exiled from his home country of Somalia since the 1970s. He has written 12 novels which have been translated into over twenty languages (and counting), dozens of short stories, and countless essays and opinion pieces for publications all over the world. Nuruddin Farah has been on the faculty at Bard College as Distinguished Professor of Literature since the fall of 2013. This episode originally aired on Robin Hood Radio on Friday, January 23rd, 2015."
January 23, 2015
Mark Danner with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!
January 03, 2015
Mark Danner discusses the creation of the Islamic State with KPFK's Ian Masters on Background Briefing With Ian Masters.
December 14, 2014
Nurrudin Farah will read from his new book, Hiding in Plain Sight, followed by a conversation with Mark Danner at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
November 17, 2014
In this collaboration with VICE News and the New York Review of Books Mark Danner discusses the US role in the development of ISIS.
November 14, 2014
Mark Danner delivers his MacArthur lecture, "Terror, Torture, Drones: Taking Stock of the Forever War" at Bard College
October 27, 2014
Mark Danner delivers "Terror, Torture, Drones" at the annual MacArthur Fellows conference in Chicago.
October 24, 2014
Mark Danner discusses the film, Rosewater with Jon Stewart, Maziar Bahrani and Gael Garcia Bernal at the Telluride Film Festival, Telluride, CO.
August 31, 2014
Mark Danner on Background Briefing with Ian Masters, June 22nd 2014.
June 22, 2014
Mark Danner spoke at the Warsaw Book Fair on May 24, 2014, Warsaw, Poland.
May 24, 2014
A dialogue on reporting and El Mozote with Agnieszka Wojcinska in Warsaw, Poland. May, 2014.
May 24, 2014
Mark Danner speaking in Warsaw, Poland for the Kapuscinski Prize.
May 23, 2014
Mark Danner discusses El Mozote and the career of a journalist with student, Alice Deneka in Warsaw, Poland.
May 22, 2014
Mark Danner discusses the Massacre of El Mozote in Warsaw, Poland for the Kapuscinski Prize. May 22nd, 2014.
May 22, 2014
Mark Danner speaks with Andrei Soldatov, Alexander Tcherkasov, Sergey Kovalev, and Varvara Parkhomenko at the Sakharov Center in Moscow, Russia.
May 19, 2014
Lecture: "After the Wars of Terror: The US 'Light Footprint' in the Post-9/11 World," Smolny Institute, St Petersburg, Russia. Introduced by Artemy Magun, Professor of Democratic Theory.
May 16, 2014
Mark Danner discusses Joshua Oppenheimer's 'The Act of Killing' documentary at the Pacific Film Archive, UC Berkeley.
April 15, 2014
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