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LIVE WEBCAST | UPCOMING EVENTAt the Crossroads: COVID-19, Racism, and Disinformation
Thursday [link removed] [[link removed]]
May. 13, 2021
1:00pm – 2:00pm ET
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At the Crossroads: COVID-19, Racism, and Disinformation
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For more than a year, we have been fighting three viruses: COVID-19, racism and disinformation. For Asian Americans, concerns about COVID-19 are accompanied by fears of violence, with the number of reported attacks on Asian Americans surging during the pandemic as much as by 145%, according to a recent study [[link removed]] by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. One cause of this increase is disinformation campaigns that specifically tie the spread of the pandemic to racist narratives, scapegoating Asian communities and Asian Americans as the agents for COVID-19.
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars invites you to join us for a program that will shed light on this convergence, by examining the impact disinformation has had on Asian American communities, and its impact on our global standing. What has been the impact of disinformation on Asian Americans? How are certain groups targeted in disinformation? What has been the impact of these trends on diplomatic relations with Asian countries as well as US standing in the region?
This event is co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholar's Science and Technology Innovation Program, Asia Program, Kissinger Institute, and the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy. It is held in partnership with the Asian American Journalist Association.
Agenda
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Keynote address: Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA 33rd District)
Panel:
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Michelle
Ye
Hee
Lee
,
Reporter,
the
Washington
Post;
President,
Asian
American
Journalists
Association
*
Prof.
Jonathan
Corpus
Ong
,
Associate
Professor,
Global
Digital
Media,
University
of
Massachusetts
Amherst
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Rui
Zhong
,
Program
Associate,
Kissinger
Institute
on
China,
The
Wilson
Center
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Moderator:
Jean
H.
Lee
,
Director,
Hyundai
Motor-Korea
Foundation
Center
for
Korean
History
and
Public
Policy,
The
Wilson
Center
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KeynoteCongressman Ted Lieu (D-CA) Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA) [[link removed]]

PanelistMichelle Ye Hee Lee Michelle Ye Hee Lee [[link removed]] Jonathan Corpus Ong Jonathan Corpus Ong [[link removed]]
Reporter for The Washington Post; President of the Asian American Journalists Association Associate Professor of Global Digital Media at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Rui Zhong Rui Zhong [[link removed]]
Program Associate

ModeratorJean H. Lee Jean H. Lee [[link removed]]
Director, Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy;
Journalist and former Pyongyang Bureau Chief, Associated Press

EVENT PARTNERSASIA PROGRAM [[link removed]] ASIA PROGRAM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION PROGRAM [[link removed]] SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION PROGRAM
KISSINGER INSTITUTE ON CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES [[link removed]] KISSINGER INSTITUTE ON CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES HYUNDAI MOTOR-KOREA FOUNDATION CENTER FOR KOREAN HISTORY AND PUBLIC POLICY [[link removed]] HYUNDAI MOTOR-KOREA FOUNDATION CENTER FOR KOREAN HISTORY AND PUBLIC POLICY

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Questions
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Questions for the panel can be submitted via email at [email protected] [[email protected]] , via Twitter @AsiaProgram [[link removed]] , or during the RSVP process.
Media inquiries can be directed at Ryan McKenna, [email protected] [[email protected]] .
#AAPIatWilson
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This event is part a series dedicated to Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, hosted at the The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Stay tuned for the May 25 event, "Going Beyond #StopAsianHate." Follow and learn more on Twitter with #AAPIatWilson.

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