February 7: Friday Keynote event, 4:30pm to 6:15pm
Welcome: Austen Parrish (Dean of the Law School, UCI)
Event Introduction: Barry Siegel (Professor of Literary Journalism, UCI and Co-Founder of the Forum)
Keynote: Dean Baquet (former executive editor of the New York Times), “Crisis in the Newsroom”
Keynote Response Panel: Amy Wilentz, moderator with panelists Jodie Ginsberg (CEO, Committee to Protect Journalists), Widlore Meráncourt (Editor-in-Chief, AyiboPost), Hector Tobar (Professor of Literary Journalism and journalist/novelist, UCI), and Alan Weisman (journalist and author of The World Without Us)
February 8: Saturday events
9:15 to 9:45am
Welcome: Tyrus Miller (Dean of the School of Humanities, UCI)
Opening Remarks: Amy Wilentz (Professor of Literary Journalism, UCI; Co-Director of the Forum)
Conversation: Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Professor of History, UCI; Co-Director of the Forum) with Ivan Ogilvie (photojournalist) on work in Burma
Panel 1: The American Election, 9:45-11:00
Moderator, Allison Perlman (Associate Professor of History, UCI) with panelists Sewell Chan (Executive editor, Columbia Journalism Review), Rick Hasen (Professor of Law, UCLA), David Kaye (Professor of Law, UCI), and Angilee Shah (CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Charlottesville Tomorrow)
Coffee break: 11:00 to 11:15
Panel 2: Journalists as Targets, 11:15-12:30
Moderator, Sewell Chan (Columbia Journalism Review), with Widlore Mérancourt on Haiti, Polina Ivanova on Russia, Alan Weisman on the United States, and Katie Stallard on China
Lunch: 12:30 to 1:30
Lunchtime conversation, “A Dialogue on War Zones,” with Jodie Ginsberg, David Kaye, and Amy Wilentz
Panel 3: Tech Challenges to Truth in the Age of AI and Algorithms, 1:30 to 2:45
Moderator, Paul Dourish (Professor of Informatics and Computer Science); with panelists Olufunmilayo Arewa (George Mason, Law), Sheera Frenkel (New York Times), Lucy Hornby (Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies), and Elizabeth Loftus (UCI, Criminology, Law and Society, Psychology, and Law)
2:45 to 3: Coffee Break
Panel 4: Climate as a Story or the Story, 3:00 to 4:15
Moderator, Alex Wang (Professor of Law, UCLA), with panelists Doug Kysar (Professor of Law, Yale), Nina Lakhani (Senior Climate Justice Reporter, Guardian), Cascade Sorte (Associate Professor of Biology, UCI), Alan Weisman
Wrap Up Session, 4:15-5:00
Introduced and moderated by Jeff Wasserstrom, with Kaya Genç (Journalist and novelist, and special correspondent in Istanbul, Los Angeles Review of Books) and Jeffrey Ngo (US-based Hong Kong activist)