Intended Audience
The Media Literacy, Civic Engagement and Democracy Project of the Center for the Study of Democracy and the Hilda C. Landers Library presents Dr. Cathy Buerger of the Dangerous Speech project on March 1.
Dr. Buerger will speak at 12:00 pm in the Blackistone Room on "Dangerous disinformation: The rhetoric of January 6th and where we go from here".
Dr. Buerger will also conduct a workshop on March 1 at 2:30 pm entitled "Countering hateful speech online: An introduction to counterspeech". The workshop will be held in Anne Arundel Hall N110.
Cathy Buerger is the Director of Research at the Dangerous Speech Project. She studies the relationship between speech and intergroup violence as well as civil society responses to dangerous and hateful speech online. She is a Research Affiliate of the University of Connecticut’s Economic and Social Rights Research Group, Managing Editor of the Journal of Human Rights, and an Editor for the Teaching Human Rights Database. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Connecticut.