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Holding SpaceLessons Learned: Navigating Tensions, Affirming Community, Pt. 2During this episode of Holding Space, Dr. Joan Collier, Dr. Crystal Bedley, and Kaylin Padovano reflect on the 'Navigating Tensions, Affirming Communities' Speaker Series, which helped launch our campaign to 'Meet the Moment with Humanity.' Each guest lecturer spoke to a critical element of community building, from rejecting polarization to respecting everyone's inherent dignity. In times of tension, being able to engage across differences can ultimately help us approach difficult dialogue with curiosity and compassion.
For reference, we encourage you to watch Kazu Haga's talk on rejecting polarization, Donna Hicks' talk on dignity and respect, Daryl Da...2025-06-1619 min
Better Experiences by Design™How an Investment in Leadership Training Can Grow Careers and the Bottom Line with Kevin FitzpatrickAttracting new talent and keeping them engaged in your organization is no easy feat—and Benesch, an Engineering News-Record Top 100 U.S. Design Firm, has created a culture with single-digit turnover rates. Part of this success lies with their premier Leadership Development program.In today’s episode, guest Kevin Fitzpatrick, President and CEO of Benesch, shares insights into the creation of their educational program which is proving to be a powerful return on investment for the firm.Better Experiences by Design is a podcast series produced by circle S studio that highlights leaders across a vari...2024-04-1833 min
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastAfter Last Jan. 6 House Committee Hearing, Trump Continues to Escape AccountabilityGaslit Nation podcast cohost Sarah Kendzior: After Last Jan. 6 House Committee Hearing, Trump Continues to Escape AccountabilitySocial Security Works Communications Director Linda Benesch: Republicans Propose Policies That Would Weaken or End Social Security and MedicareDoctors for Camp Closures volunteer Dr. Kate Sugarman: Volunteers Provide Assistance to Asylum Seekers Used as Political Props by GOP Governors Bob Nixon's Under-reported Weekly Summary U.S. says no to emergency liquidity for emerging marketsPrison labor reform movement hopes to close ‘slavery loophole’Amazon...2022-10-1929 min
On the MediaConstitutionally Speaking“The right to throw a punch ends at the tip of someone’s nose.” It’s the idea that underlies American liberties — but does it still fit in 2021? We look back at our country’s radical — and radically inconsistent — tradition of free speech. Plus, a prophetic philosopher predicts America 75 years after Trump.
1. Andrew Marantz [@andrewmarantz], author of Anti-Social: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation — and our guest host for this hour — explains what he sees as the problem with free speech absolutism. Listen.
2. John Powell [@profjohnapowell], law professor at UC Berkeley, P.E. Moskowitz [@_pem_pem...2021-08-2750 min
Making Sense of Tech LawEpisode 9: Trump, Facebook, and Human RightsMSTL speaks to Susan Benesch, director and founder of the Dangerous Speech Project, and Faculty Associate of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center, about the Facebook Oversight Board's decision to uphold the ban on Donald Trump's Facebook account, and the role of international human rights law in providing oversight for social media content. 2021-06-2042 min
Lex Cybernetica PodcastLex Cybernetica E19-Online Hate SpeechFreedom of speech is almost a sacred thing in the US and revered in many democratic countries. But in recent years, there is talk of its abuse to propagate hate speech online, and the need to limit it as a result.
What is hate speech (or dangerous speech), what’s unique about it online, what are its real dangers, how should it be dealt with, and at what cost?
All this in this episode of the Lex Cybernetica, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Federmann Cyber Security Research Center’s podcas...2020-09-0628 min
GenostoryEp. 1.04 Best Practices in Genocide PreventionJoin historian John Lestrange for episode 4 of Genostory: We Agreed to Do This. In this episode John will go over best practices in genocide prevention, why prevention is so difficult, and what you can do to aid in prevention efforts. Also, as a reminder to everyone listening Black Lives Matter and All Cops are Bastards Special thanks to the app Hatchful and MJ Bradley for designing and editing out logo. Show music is "Crusade - Heavy Industry by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. Sources: N...2020-07-1500 min
On the MediaSticks and Stones“The right to throw a punch ends at the tip of someone’s nose.” It’s the idea that underlies American liberties — but does it still fit in 2019? This week, On the Media looks back at our country’s radical — and radically inconsistent — tradition of free speech. Plus, a prophetic philosopher predicts America 75 years after Trump.
1. Andrew Marantz [@andrewmarantz], author of Anti-Social: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation — and our guest host for this hour — explains what he sees as the problem with free speech absolutism. Listen.
2. John Powell [@profjohnapowell], law professor at UC Berkele...2019-10-1150 min
Free Speech DebateSusan Benesch on dangerous speechIn this interview with Timothy Garton Ash, Susan Benesch, senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, makes a distinction between hate speech and dangerous speech.2016-06-2809 min
ISGAPAntisemitism, Islamophobia and the Contours of International Human Rights LawSpeaker: Susan Benesch
Affiliation: Senior Fellow and Project Director, World Policy Institute
Title: Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and the Contours of International Human Rights Law
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Date: November 28, 2012
Description: Susan Benesch speaks about how to understand, classify and respond to various forms of hate speech that have become increasingly evident around the world. Benesch examines three primary questions:
1) How can we understand or classify these forms of inflammatory speech in the doctrinal contours of International Human Rights Law?
2...2016-06-131h 31
Global Dispatches -- World News That MattersEpisode 98: Susan BeneschSusan Benesch is the founding director of the Dangerous Speech Project. And in this role she has helped to create a set of guidelines that helps policy makers and observers deduce the conditions under which inflammatory public rhetoric crosses the line to become a catalyst for major violence. We kick off discussion what those criteria are have a broader conversation about the role of language in inspiring violence.
Susan had a career as a journalist, covering conflict in Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s and then, after experiencing some profound physical and emotional turbulence, she switched careers a...2016-02-2142 min
Berkman CenterSusan Benesch on Troll Wrastling for Beginners: Data-Driven Methods to Decrease Hatred Online [AUDIO]Download the MP3 …or download the OGG audio format! More info on this event here. Read more here Susan’s Homepage @dangerousspeech A Prelude to Murder: Calling Humans Vermin The Innocence of YouTube Words as Weapons Umati: Kenyan Online Discourse to Catalyze and Counter Violence Elections and Ethnic Violence Umati Final Report Vile Crime or Inalienable [...]
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