Events
Spring 2025 Public Conversation Series
Managing Crisis: Public Communication on Global Displacement
When: February 27, 5:30 -6:30 PM
Where: Main Event Space, NYU Wagner (105 E 17th St)
Who:
Melissa Fleming
Melissa Fleming was appointed UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications in September 2019.
She leads the UN’s Department of Global Communications, which informs global audiences about the state of the world and engages them to build support for the work and goals of the United Nations.
In this role, Ms. Fleming oversees the Department’s strategic and crisis communications operations, including its multilingual news and digital media services, public outreach programmes, and global campaigns.
Under her leadership, the UN Department of Global Communications engages in far-reaching efforts to address mis- and disinformation, and hate speech and also to promote free and independent media. She led the development of the UN Global Principles for Information Integrity, a blueprint for healthy information ecosystems.
Mohamad Bazzi
Mohamad Bazzi is Director of the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies and an associate professor of journalism at New York University. From 2019 to 2021, he was associate director of NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. From 2009 to 2013, he served as an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), providing regional expertise and analysis. He was also the 2008 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at CFR.
Before joining the NYU faculty, Bazzi was the Middle East bureau chief at Newsday from 2003 to 2008, where he established bureaus in Baghdad and Beirut. He was the lead writer on the Iraq war and its aftermath. He also covered the 2000 Palestinian uprising, the war in Afghanistan, and the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel. He previously served as Newsday’s United Nations bureau chief and as a metro reporter in New York City. His essays and commentaries on the Middle East have appeared in The New York Times, London Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Boston Review, Politico Magazine, Reuters, and other publications.
Remarks By:
Georgina Dopico, Provost, New York University
Sherry Glied, Dean, New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Upcoming Public Conversations
Changes to Immigration Policy Under the Trump Administration: Implications and Consequences
When: March 19, 5:30 -6:30 PM
Where: Lipton Hall, NYU School of Law (108 West Third Street)
Who:
Omar Jadwat
Omar Jadwat is director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, which he joined as a Skadden Fellow in 2002. Omar has litigated numerous groundbreaking cases at IRP, including suits challenging the Trump administration’s Muslim ban; Arizona’s SB 1070 and other state and local anti-immigrant laws; and ICE’s use of immigration detainers. He graduated from NYU Law School and was a law clerk for Judge John G. Koeltl of the Southern District of New York. He is also an adjunct professor at NYU Law.
Alina Das
Alina Das ’05 is a Professor of Clinical Law at NYU School of Law, where she co-teaches and co-directs the Immigrant Rights Clinic. She and her clinic students represent immigrants and community organizations in litigation and advocacy to advance immigrant rights locally and across the country. In addition to her teaching, Das engages in scholarship on deportation and detention issues, particularly at the intersection of immigration and criminal law. Das also serves as faculty director of the NYU Latinx Rights Scholars Program.
Visualizing Data on Migration, Deportation, and Border Enforcement
When: April 24, 5:30 -6:30 PM
Where: Main Event Space, NYU Wagner (105 E 17th St)
Who:
Alex Gil
Alex is Senior Lecturer II and Associate Research Faculty of Digital Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, where he teaches introductory and advanced courses in digital humanities, and runs project-based learning and collective research initiatives. Before joining Yale, Alex served for ten years as Digital Scholarship Librarian at Columbia University, where he co-created and nurtured the Butler Studio and the Group for Experimental Methods in Humanistic Research. His research interests include Caribbean culture and history, digital humanities and technology design for different infrastructural and socio-economic environments, and the ownership and material extent of the cultural and scholarly record. He is currently senior editor of archipelagos journal, editor of internationalization of Digital Humanities Quarterly, co-organizer of The Caribbean Digital annual conference, and co-principal investigator of the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation.
Cristina Beltrán
Cristina Beltrán, Ph.D., works at the intersection of Latinx politics and political theory. She is an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Social and Sultural Analysis. Her work has appeared in Political Theory, the Du Bois Review, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Political Research Quarterly, and various edited volumes. She is currently the co-editor of Theory & Event, a peer-reviewed journal that publishes work by scholars working at the intersections of political theory, cultural theory, political economy, aesthetics, philosophy, and the arts. She is also an occasional guest on MSNBC.
Short Films on Migration by Emerging Artists and Scholars
The NYU Migration Network will be hosting a reception for its 2024 Graduate Student Award for summer research recipients, and a screening of the films made in collaboration with students from the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at NYU Tisch.
When: Friday, February 28 | 6 - 8pm
Where: Main Event Space, NYU Wagner (105 East 17th Street)