Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

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Tue, April 1, 2025
Lunch Program
Beth Murphy and Izzy Murphy
Join us to explore the power of social impact storytelling in conflict and post-conflict societies with case studies of Beth Murphy’s media campaigns that move audiences from outrage and inspiration to action. One powerful example is young changemaker IzzyMurphy, whose work in rural Afghanistan through her organization GLAM - the Global Local Athletic Movement - fosters hope and resilience for girls navigating life under Taliban rule.
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Award-winning journalist, filmmaker, author, and changemaker Beth Murphy has built her career on the belief that empathy fuels action—and that storytelling is one of the most powerful tools to inspire both. She is founder of Principle Pictures. Her honors include: Emmy Awards, World Press Photo Award, Overseas Press Club Award, Scripps Howard Award, National Headliner Award, Webby Award, RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award, AWRT’s Gracie Allen Award, One Shared World International Outreach Award, and Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards.

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Tue, April 1, 2025
Dinner Program
David Farber

David Farber, distinguished professor of history at the University of Kansas, author of Crack and editor of The War on Drugs, explores the tragic consequences of Richard Nixon's 1971 declaration of a war on drugs. Looking at two key hinge points in this "war," Farber examines the conflict in the policymaking process between imperfect expertise and tempestuous political demands, and then the impact of that conflict on the lives of Americans, especially those most at risk of falling prey to drug abuse. Since 1971, Americans have traveled a hard road as they seek to balance the mass demand for the recourse drugs such as cannabis, cocaine, and opioids provide with the dangers of drug abuse and dependency. Even now, as the war on drugs has deescalated, Americans continue to fight over how drug use and abuse can and should be managed.

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David Farber is the Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Kansas. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago after which he spent a year working on Capitol Hill. Since then, he has been a professor of history and has published numerous books on American political culture, social change movements, democratic practice, and the history of capitalism. He has been a visiting scholar or lecturer in Japan, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Lebanon, Australia, China, Russia, Indonesia and elsewhere.

Professor Farber will deliver the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies' 2024-25 Lerner Lecture on Hinge Moments in History.

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