Opening Conversation between Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Ivan Ogilvie, 9:15-9:45
Ivan Ogilvie is a photographer and filmmaker based in London, England. His work can be found at ivanolgivie.com.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom is a co-founder and co-director of the Forum for the Academy and the Public. He is Chancellor’s Professor of History at UCI, where he holds courtesy appointments in Law and Literary Journalism. He is a co-editor of the China section of the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the author, most recently, of Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (2020) and The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing (forthcoming in June 2025), both published by Columbia Global Reports.
The American Election, 9:45-11:00
Moderator
Allison Perlman is an associate professor in both the film and media studies and history departments at UCI. Her research interests include history of broadcasting, American social movements, media law and policy, media activism, and popular memory. Her book, Public Interests: Media Advocacy and Struggles Over US Television (Rutgers UP, 2016) was a winner of an Outstanding Book Award for the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association.
Sewell Chan joined the Columbia Journalism Review as executive editor in September 2024. A longtime journalist, he is passionate about journalism ethics, new business models for news, and the urgent need to support working journalists who face unprecedented challenges. Previously, Chan was editor in chief of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit newsroom based in Austin, from 2021 to 2024. During his tenure the Tribune won the National Magazine Award and the Collier Prize for State Government Accountability and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, all for the first time. From 2018 to 2021, Chan was a deputy managing editor and then the editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times, where he oversaw coverage that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. He began his career at the Washington Post in 2000 and worked at The New York Times from 2004 to 2018, as a metro reporter, Washington correspondent, deputy Op-Ed editor and international news editor. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Richard L. Hasen is the Gary T. Schwartz Endowed Chair in Law, Professor of Political Science (by courtesy), and Director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA School of Law. He is an internationally recognized expert in election law, writing as well in the areas of legislation and statutory interpretation, remedies, and torts. He is co-author of leading casebooks in election law and remedies. Hasen served in 2024 as an NBC News/MSNBC Election Law Analyst and was a CNN Election Law Analyst in 2020.
David Kaye is a professor of law at the University of California, Irvine, and the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. He regularly lectures and has published widely in academic and non-specialist journals on issues related to human rights at domestic and international levels, accountability for serious human rights abuses, international humanitarian law, and the international law governing use of force. His 2019 book, Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet (Columbia Global Reports), explores the ways in which companies, governments and activists struggle to define the rules for online expression.
Angilee Shah is the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of the nonprofit news organization Charlottesville Tomorrow, in Central Virginia. She is a coach for news organizations and journalism change makers around the country who specializes in building teams, budgets and editorial strategy for people and communities too often left out of media narratives. Shah spent six years as a founding editor of Global Nation, PRI’s The World’s coverage of immigration in the US, where in one year she brought 50 new contributors to the program. As a reporter and editor, her work has been read and heard around the world, including a book about everyday lives in China and a trio of investigative stories about the end of Sri Lanka’s 30-year civil war.
