An ASU "Knowledge Enterprise" :: : Exiting a Disinformation Society

ESSAY How Japanese Americans Built a ‘Useful American Life with All Possible Speed’ in 1940s Chicago Incarcerated on the West Coast by the U.S. Government, Thousands Were Then Given ‘Work Leave’ to Resettle in the Midwest by LAURA McENANEY In March 1943, Kaye Kimura left the “Manzanar War Relocation Center” in California and boarded the same train that had brought her there in 1942, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt had sent 120,000 Japanese Americans to wartime prisons. ... READ MORE EVENT: STREAMING ONLINE Thursday, June 18, 2020, 6:30 PM PDT Can We Build A Better Summer Olympics? A Zócalo/ASU Foundation Event Moderated by Kurt Streeter, Sports Reporter, New York Times As we wait patiently for the delayed Tokyo Games to begin, Olympic medalist  Lashinda Demus and ASU sports historian Victoria Jackson visit Zócalo to discuss innovative ideas for a better Summer Olympics. REGISTER FOR UPDATES ESSAY How Do Societies Recover After Years (Even Decades) of Lies? Germany’s History of Deliberate Disinformation—From Witch Hunts to Nazi Propaganda—Shows How Difficult It Is to Escape the Cycle by HELMUT WALSER SMITH How do societies get over years, or even decades, of being lied to? How does a society that has run on “disinformation” exit from that system? The question has obvious contemporary relevance. Yet mass disinformation ... READ MORE EVENT: STREAMING ONLINE POSTPONED: How Can Humans Coexist With Monster Wildfires? A Zócalo/Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West Event Moderated by Nathan Rott, National Desk Correspondent, NPR Historical ecologist Jared Dahl Aldern, CSU Long Beach American Indian Studies professor Theresa Gregor, and Fernanda Santos, The Fire Line author and Professor of Practice at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, visit Zócalo to examine how and whether human beings can coexist with megafires. REGISTER FOR UPDATES CONNECTING CALIFORNIA Why California’s Kids Should Go on Strike As COVID Collapses Budgets, It’s Up to Children to Save Their Schools by JOE MATHEWS Dear California Kids, Don’t let us adults destroy your futures! This time of “distance learning” and COVID-19 chaos is the opportunity of a generation—maybe a century—to fix what’s so very wrong with how California treats you. And right now, ... READ MORE Explore #ZócaloBeyondtheSquare on Instagram  ‌  ‌  ‌

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