Conspiracies and Democracy
A conversation between Alumna Chine Labbe and Pr. Nancy L. Rosenblum, Senator Joseph Clark Research Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government emerita at Harvard University.
They will discuss how conspiracy theories threaten our democracies (Covid-19 pandemic, past (US) and upcoming (Germany), etc).
Gérard Araud, former Ambassador of France to the United States will conclude this session.
Thursday March 11 at 1 PM EST (7 PM Paris)
Chine Labbe
Chine Labbe is a Managing Editor for Europe at NewsGuard, a US company that provides credibility ratings and detailed “Nutrition Labels” for thousands of news and information websites, and alerts internet users on sources of misinformation. Previously based in New York, she had to relocate to Europe in 2020 because of the pandemic, and is now based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Before joining NewsGuard, Labbe worked for six years as a print reporter for Reuters in Paris, where she covered politics, courts, security and terrorism. She also worked as a multimedia producer for The Economist in New York. She is a former Fulbright scholar and graduated from a dual degree program between the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Sciences Po Journalism School in Paris in 2010. Parallel to NewsGuard, she is also the host and producer of Good Code, a podcast on ethics in digital technologies, created in 2018 collaboration with Cornell Tech’s Digital Life Initiative (DLI).
Nancy L. Rosenblum
A Lot of People are Saying: the New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy with Russell Muirhead was published by Princeton University Press in 2019. Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America was published by Princeton University Press in 2016. On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship received the Walter Channing Cabot Fellow Award from Harvard in 2010 for scholarly eminence.
She is also the author, among other books, of Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America (1998), which was awarded the APSA David Easton Prize in 2000. She is editor of Thoreau: Political Writings, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Prof. Rosenblum is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science and Co-Editor of the Annual Review of Political Science. She is guest editor of a volume of Daedalus: “Witnessing Climate Change” October, 2020.
Gérard Araud
Gérard Araud, a career diplomat, has retired in April 2019 from the French foreign service as Ambassador of France to the United States (2014-2019). Over the course of his career, Mr. Araud has developed specialized knowledge in two key areas: Middle East and strategic & security issues. As regards the latter, he was the French negotiator on the Iranian nuclear issue from 2006 to 2009. In New York, at the Security Council, he notably contributed to the adoption of resolutions on Libya (#1970 and #1973), Côte d’Ivoire (#1975), the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali and the Central African Republic, and participated in debates on the Syrian and Ukrainian crises.
After retiring, he is advising several companies. He is trustee of the International Crisis Group and Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Atlantic Council in Washington DC.
The webinar will take place at 1:00 pm local time (USA & Canada)
(Attention cet événement aura lieu à 19h heure française)