CEAS and Pulitzer Center Present: Bearing Witness: Narrative Journalism and Hunan Rights in Xinjiang

Published on June 9, 2022

The University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies is pleased to collaborate once again with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting for the 2022 UChicago Summer Institute for Educators (SIE).  Together with the University of Chicago Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, and the University of Chicago Center for Middle Eastern Studies, CEAS will sponsor a series of webinars, one of which will focus on East Asia on Thursday, June 23rd, followed by an in-person workshop to take place on Tuesday, June 28th at International House.  The theme for this year's SIE is, The Global Rise of Disinformation in Times of Conflict.  

The Center for East Asian Studies webinar, taking place Thursday, June 23rd at 6 pm US CT will feature Ben Mauk on "Bearing Witness: Narrative Journalism and Human Rights in Xinjiang, China."  Ben Mauk will discuss the value of eyewitness accounts of human rights atrocities in Xinjiang, China, and the process of using those accounts to expose the hidden mass internment drive of minority Chinese citizens. He will discuss his own journalistic projects on Xinjiang for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, the London Review of Books, and other publications, which have included magazine writing, oral history, interactive media, and an animated virtual reality documentary. He will also discuss the use of misinformation and propaganda to discredit independent journalism about Xinjiang and the importance of narrative journalism as one kind of evidence to counter state narratives.

For more information, and to register for this event, and others that are part of the UChicago Institute for Educators, please click here.

This virtual webinar is part of the 2022 University of Chicago Summer Institute for Educators (SIE): The Global Rise of Disinformation in Times of Conflict and is co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies, the University of Chicago Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, and the University of Chicago Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and presented in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. It is made possible through generous support from Title VI National Resource Center Grants from the U.S. Department of Education and the Global Voices Program at International House.  For more information about SIE, please click here.