SGIS Colloquium: The Anti-Hate Brigade

Cathy Buerger
Cathy Buerger

Join SGIS on Feb. 16 at 12:30 for our first colloquium of the semester! Dr. Cathy Buenger of the Dangerous Speech Project will give a lecture titled "The Anti-Hate Brigade: Collective Counterspeech and the Struggle Over Online Discourse."

Dr. Cathy Buerger is the Director of Research at the Dangerous Speech Project (DSP), a Washington, DC-based NGO that studies the relationship between speech and violence. She is a Research Affiliate of the University of Connecticut’s Economic and Social Rights Research Group, Managing Editor of the Journal of Human Rights, and an Editor for the Teaching Human Rights Database. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Connecticut.

Registration required at https://go.unl.edu/antihate