W2B. Hate: What and Why, An Interview
History & World Affairs | This course is completed
Description:
Join Ken Stern, director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, in conversation with LLI member Felice Gelman as they explore such questions as these:
What is hate? What is it not?
Is the potential for hate embedded in human psychology or is it learned?
Under what conditions can people live together peacefully, and then turn on each other?
How important is the media in teaching us to hate?
What is the relationship of structural racism and individual prejudice?
Are there different sources/elements in anti-Black racism and antisemitism?
German American Bund marching in New York, 1939, New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kenneth Stern
Presenter
Kenneth Stern, JD. Kenneth S. Stern is director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, an attorney, and award-winning author. For 25 years, he was the American Jewish Committee's expert on antisemitism, and the lead drafter of the “Working Definition of Antisemitism." His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Forward. His newest book is The Conflict Over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate (New Jewish Press, 2020). He graduated from Bard in 1975.
Felice Gelman
Class Manager & Session Manager
Eleanor Wieder
Producer & Class Manager