Ethan Zuckerman, Director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT and principal research scientist at the MIT Media Lab, delivers a talk at Facing History and Ourselves’ Day of Learning “Thought, Judgment, Action: Choosing to Participate.” Zuckerm

"Honor and Social Change": Anthony Appiah

Jan 29th, 2016 19m 24s

Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University and Chair of the Facing History Board of Scholars, delivers a talk at Facing History and Ourselves’ Day of Learning (2015) “Thought, Judgment, Action: Choosing to Participat

"Contesting" Evil - Jon Sawyer

Jul 16th, 2015 26m 7s

Jon Sawyer, founding Director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, delivers a talk at Facing History and Ourselves’ Day of Learning: Confronting Evil in Individuals and Societies. Sawyer describes how the Pulitzer Center does, uses new m

"Contextualizing" Evil - Jeffrey Burds

Jun 15th, 2015 26m 47s

Jeffrey Burds, professor of History at Northeastern University, delivers a talk at Facing History and Ourselves' Day of Learning: Confronting Evil in Individuals and Societies. Burds examines the "microhistory" of the events in Lvov, Ukraine du

"Norming" Evil - Luis Moreno Ocampo

Apr 29th, 2015 17m 21s

Luis Moreno Ocampo, former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, delivers a talk at Facing History and Ourselves’ Day of Learning: Confronting Evil in Individuals and Societies. Moreno Ocampo describes the importance of internat

"Norming" Evil - Elaine Pagels

Mar 10th, 2015 20m 56s

Elaine Pagels, Professor of Religion at Princeton University, delivers a talk at Facing History and Ourselves’ Day of Learning: Confronting Evil in Individuals and Societies. Pagels explains that many interpretations of evil throughout history

Understanding Evil - Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

Feb 2nd, 2015 24m 55s

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Assistant Professor of Education, Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Southern California, delivers a talk at Facing History and Ourselves’ Day of Learning: Confronting Evil in Individuals and Societies.

Responses to Evil Through History - Kwame Anthony Appiah

Oct 6th, 2014 21m 9s

Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy at New York University, delivers a talk at Facing History and Ourselves’ Day of Learning: Confronting Evil in Individuals and Societies. Appiah demonstrates the difficulties philosophers in the 18th centu

Elizabeth Eckford of the Little Rock Nine

Jun 6th, 2014 4m 26s

Elizabeth Eckford of the Little Rock Nine describes her experience during the first days of integration at Central High School.

The Ethics of Diversity - Kwame Anthony Appiah

Feb 20th, 2014 20m 57s

Kwame Anthony Appiah from Princeton University describes the three basic principles of ethics and applies them to personal and group identities, illustrating how ethics can help shape the way we think about and approach diverse identities. Whil

Navigating Race in a Post-Racial Society - Deborah Plummer

Feb 9th, 2014 23m 13s

Deborah Plummer, a psychologist from the Univ. of Massachusetts discusses how humans must navigate a variety of obstacles, including basic scientific processes such as our biological instinct of fight or flight, when interacting in a diverse wo

Making All the Difference – American Law’s Treatment of Race and Identities

Jan 27th, 2014 16m 29s

Martha Minow, dean of the Harvard Law School, delivers a talk titled “Making All the Difference – American Law’s Treatment of Race and Identities” as part of Facing History’s Day of Learning “Reimagining Self and Other.” In this episode, Minow

Nationalism and Violence

Jan 27th, 2014 19m 41s

Omer Bartov, a historian from Brown University, delivers a talk titled “Nationalism and Violence” as part of Facing History’s Day of Learning “Reimagining Self and Other.” In this episode, Bartov uses the history of the Eastern European region

Genetic (Mis)understandings: The Modern Science of Human Difference - David Jones

Jan 21st, 2014 20m 3s

David Jones, a Professor of the Culture of Medicine at Harvard University, delivers a talk titled “Genetic (Mis)understandings – The Modern Science of Human Difference” as part of Facing History’s Day of Learning “Reimagining Self and Other.”

Diffusing Bias - Binna Kandola

Jan 20th, 2014 20m 10s

Binna Kandola, a psychologist and diversity scholar from Leeds University, delivers a talk titled “Diffusing Bias” as part of Facing History’s Day of Learning “Reimagining Self and Other.” In this talk, Kandola explains the different types of b

What Does Neuroscience Suggest About Prejudice: Michael Inzlicht

Jan 20th, 2014 23m 7s

Michael Inzlicht, a psychologist from the University of Toronto, delivers a talk titled “What Does Neuroscience Suggest About Prejudice” as part of Facing History’s Day of Learning “Reimagining Self and Other.” Inzlicht illustrates that ster

Daniel Goldhagen on the Challenges of Confronting Antisemitism

Dec 13th, 2013 20m 2s

Genocide scholar and author Daniel Goldhagen discusses the history of antisemitism and its relevance today. Facing History's Doc Miller concludes the podcast. A middle school teacher for over 30 years, Miller discusses the importance of bringin

John Lewis on the Importance of Working Together

Dec 13th, 2013 5m 47s

Congressman and civil rights movement veteran John Lewis speaks about the responsibility of citizens in a democracy.

Migration and Belonging

Dec 2nd, 2013 5m 8s

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, John R. Bowen, and Sir Keith Ajegbo explore how migration is changing the way individuals, groups, and nations consider what it means to belong.

The Legacies of the Little Rock Nine

Dec 2nd, 2013 7m 5s

In this podcast, we explore the legacies of public school integration in the United States as seen through the eyes of Jessica Green, daughter of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine.

Bringing Holocaust Survivors into the Classroom

Dec 2nd, 2013 10m 48s

Holocaust survivor Rena Finder and Facing History and Ourselves Executive Director Margot Stern Strom talk about the impact of bringing the stories of Holocaust survivors into classrooms, and how those stories will be told in years to come.

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