Hello everyone. Thank you for turning out. I am laura miller and the books and poultry columnist for slate. Com. This is another social distancing social from [inaudible] in partnership with a partnership of slate, new American Foundation and Arizona State university. Today were talking about the future of books and im joined by priscilla who is Vice President and executive editor of simon schuster, Brandon Hensley is the National Political writer for cnn politics. Hello, priscilla and brandon. I cant hear you. You have to unmute. Hello, nice to see you. Thank you for having us. When i was asked to moderate this one of the things that it brought up or brought to mind or brought up in my memory was how in the early 2000s it seems like everywhere you went there was a discussion of the future of books and people making a lot of predictions about the future of books and how things had to change and which way they needed to go and that was all tied to the emergence of ebooks and ebook techn
Information trade how big tech conquers countries, challenges our rights, and transforms our world. Can you hear me without the mic . No, okay. Can you hear me with the mic . Also know. Heads up in the back. Alexis is the deputy ceo of new york city where she runs basically a policy Experiment Lab trying to get vendors to compete for who cana devise the best programs to improve social welfare of the citizens ofpr new york. She is an adjunct professor of media and communications and she spent a couple of decades studying these issues extremely intensively as doctoral student and then as a member of the staff of the u. N. Mission, of the state department, and also just thinking her guilty about the witches so clear from this book which i really admire. A quick round of applause for alexis. [applause] just jump right in. This book is about what you call take a minute and tell us what those arent what you felt we needed a new category for them. Sure. Thankdo you all for coming. So wonderfu
Of philadelphia my name is andy director of author events. I do have one unfortunate update to our program rick burns will not participate in our discussion this evening due to a work related incident. However, the good news you will see a sneak preview of his new documentary which will be aired on pbs later this year and based on ten years of research by our guest. A curator with more than 30 years experience, doctor Gretchen Sorin has consulted with 250 institutions including smithsonian, Jewish Museum in the near state historical association. She is a director of the cooperstown drip program of the State University of new york and the author of in the spirit of martin, the living legacy of doctor Martin Luther king junior. And through the eyes of others, African Americans in identity and american art. In her new book draw th driving while black just out today professor soren tells the story of an an dispensable green book that reshaped the africanamerican traveling experience throug
In the mic . No. Without the mic . Also no. Alexis is the deputy cto of new york city and runs a policy experiment lab, trying to get vendors to compete for who can devise the best programs to improve social welfare of the citizens of new york. An adjunct professor of tech media and communications at Columbia University and spent a couple of decade studying the issues as a doctoral student and then as a member of the staff at the u. N. Mission of the state department, and also just speaking deeply about them which is so clear from the book, which i really admire. So quick round of applause for alexis. [applause] just jump right in. This book is about what you call net states. Maybe you just want to start by taking a minute and telling us what those are and why we needed a new category. Canthank you all for coming. The pest way to straight what net states are is to talk about how i came upon the idea to right this book in the first place. So, back in 2015, there were a number of terrori
White, author of the book how to fight antisemitism. Our education is informed by the universitys mission to prepare graduates to be informed and engaged citizens in their communities and recognize and respect diversity of culture, identity and opinion. Both of these are on display this evening but its this last idea, thees respect for diversiy of culture, identity and opinion thats needed more than ever today. The tragedy of tree of life, response to the book and the amazing turnout hereby all of you, for this important conversation chokes wife. He will be available to personal copies of the book after the discussion. If you have a copycat, the bookshop will sell them at that time. Thank you for visiting our campus this evening and please welcome to the stage, the president of the university. [applause] good evening, everybody and thank you for the introduction. As some of you may recall, it was just over a year ago today that we were gathered together in this chapel for a very simila