Our first speaker is joanne mcneil, author of lurking, the inaugural winner of the art foundations art writing award for an emerging writer, resident at ivy, Logan Nonfiction Program fellow and instructor. Our next speaker will be sorry. Hang on. Sorry. I had the video open on my computer and sending my own words back to me. It was very confusing. Our second speaker will be Charlton Mcilwain, author of black software, the internet and Racial Justice. The vice provost of faculty engagement at New York University and professor of Media Communication at nyu steinberg school, our final speaker is author of the new laws of robotics, Robert Citino from the Yale Information Society project. So take it away, joann. Im happy to be on this panel with two others i really appreciate and a topic im sure we have so much to say about. There is something of a history. There are many things to look at and representative of missed opportunities. I wanted to focus on ten or 12 years ago, the time of the
I wondered, could have made the choices they had to make to protect ones family, to protect myself. Could i have found the perseverance, the fortitude, the courage, to get to. Its where i am now where i wrote my book, if you hear noises in the background, those are not horns those are frogs croaking away in my pond at college hilltop in connecticut. Hopefully there wont be a thunderstorm and it will stay nice and you callawhen i was up your writing i would spend a good deal of my time wishing i could understand what was like to live in world war ii. Wishing i could find the apathy, the understanding, to convey on the page what its like to live with a constant sense of uncertainty. What its like to live not knowing whats going to happen next. What its like to live through a great unknown. Now its a previously unimagined year later and all i can say is, be careful what you wish for. I am not saying that our battle against the pandemic is the same as fighting world war ii. There is not an
And if they have any ideas i can still. Speaking today with the team, the brain trust behind the industries leading trade magazine for in the books, publishers and particularly bookstores, selfawareness, jenn risko the cofounder and publisher, john mutter the other cofounder and editorinchief, and bob gray an editor and columnist for shelf. You no doubt read his columns. He is basically a bookstore correspondent, wandering bookstore correspondent making you feel like you are in america is great in the bookstores and seeing whats really going on from the inside. Welcome, guys, its really an honor and pleasure to see you all. You all looking basically the same from last time i saw you with i think was with institute. January. Yes. Seems like a lifetime ago, doesnt it . Its good to see everybody. I have to say, shelf to me seems to have become even more important obligation then it was before. Really kind of a lifeline for indie booksellers in particular to see whos making it, how they ar
Tensions have continued to escalate in hong kong where one of the worlds biggest airports Hong Kong International has been brought to a standstill by a huge gathering of protesters for the second day. Flights were cancelled, check in Services Suspended and demonstrators barricaded access to departure gates with luggage trolleys before riot police moved in to disperse the crowds. These are the latest pictures. This is the Moment Police moved into one of the terminals. There were violent clashes, including this one where a policeman is attacked by protesters. And you can see here at one point, he pulls out his gun. This has also come in to the newsroom you can see young protesters mobbing a man they suspected was an undercover policeman theyve zip tied his hands together. He was later carried to an ambulance. The editor of chinas global times, a nationalist tabloid newspaper, says the man who was tied up is one of his reporters. I affirm this man being tied in this video is the reporter
Be published a week before the issuance to receive the opinions of the public, economic activists and organizations to be this regulation is valid from july 1 next year. At the end of the emergency meeting of the organization of islamic cooperation, the minister of Foreign Affairs said islamic countries should not be satisfied with condemning the crimes of the zionist regime. Mr. Amir abdullahian expressed hope. The minister of Foreign Affairs of saudi arabia and other islamic countries should implement effective and practical measures against the zionist regime from today. The foreign ministries of 57 islamic countries, including the foreign minister of our country, for the second time since the beginning of the zionist regimes crimes in gaza, with the initiative of the Islamic Republic of iran, here in jeddah at the organizations secretariat. Islamic cooperation gathered to discuss more than 150 days of crimes committed by the zionist regime against the oppressed people of palestine.