Refugees in America:
Join photographic historian Dr. Makeda Best, UCLA School of Law’s Dr. Asli Bâli and New York Times best-selling author / Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen for a discussion panel on America’s historic response to refugees. Explore how our reactions to refugees have changed over the years, and consider how our history informs our experience with today’s global refugee crisis. The panel will be moderated by KCRW producer and correspondent Saul Gonzalez.
Speaker
Asli Bâli is Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. She teaches Public International Law, International Human Rights and a seminar on the Laws of War. She joined UCLA from the Yale Law School where she was the Irving S. Ribicoff Fellow in Law, and coordinator of the Middle East Legal…
Makeda Best is a historian of photography. She appears in, wrote for and advised the multidisciplinary pedagogical resource for middle school and high school teachers, Essential Lens – Analyzing Photographs Across the Curriculum, produced by Oregon Public Television and Annenberg Learner. Her broader interests include documentary photography, war photography, protest prints and social…
Starting at Los Angeles PBS affiliate KCET in the early 1990s, Saul Gonzalez has been a producer and correspondent for a smorgasbord of different local and national public TV and radio programs. They include SoCal Connected, The PBS NewsHour, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly and Which Way LA? Currently, he is a producer and correspondent for…
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other honors include the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, the First Novel Prize from the Center for…
Exhibit
REFUGEE explores the lives of refugees from a host of diverse populations dispersed and displaced throughout the world.
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Los Angeles, CA 90067
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Lecturer
Asli Bâli
Asli Bâli is Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. She teaches Public International Law, International Human Rights and a seminar on the Laws of War.
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Lecturer
Makeda Best
Makeda Best is a historian of photography who appears in the multidisciplinary pedagogical resource, “Essential Lens – Analyzing Photographs Across the Curriculum.”
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Lecturer
Saul Gonzalez
Saul Gonzalez has been a producer and correspondent for a smorgasbord of different local and national public TV and radio programs.
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Lecturer
Viet Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Exhibit
REFUGEE
REFUGEE explores the lives of refugees from a host of diverse populations dispersed and displaced throughout the world.