The School of Global Integrative Studies will host the first colloquium of the semester at 12:30 p.m. Feb. 16 via Zoom.

Cathy Buerger of the Dangerous Speech Project will give a lecture titled, “The Anti-Hate Brigade: Collective Counterspeech and the Struggle Over Online Discourse.”

Buerger is the director of research at the Dangerous Speech Project, a Washington, D.C.-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 doctorate in anthropology from the University of Connecticut.

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