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Forum for the Academy and the Public Fall Events Presents: Who Do They Think We Are? American Identity on the World Stage

Join the Forum for the Academy and the Public for a series of panels that will consider the global perception of the United States.  In collaboration with the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), international authors and journalists will offer perspectives on the American identity in the 21st century.

This series follows the 2017 symposium "Who Do We Think We Are?" That event considered self-perceptions of the American Democratic ideal in the aftermath of the 2016 Presidential election.  This year’s series will widen the focus to reflect on the perceptions of our global friends and neighbors.

Each event will be an hour long, beginning with a 15-minute moderated Q&A with our first writer, followed by 15 minutes of audience Q&A. This will be followed by a 15-minute response from
our second writer, then more general Q&A

The first event will be held on Tuesday, October 13, 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Boris Dralyuk, award-winning Executive Editor of LARB, will moderate a conversation with acclaimed Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin, author of the popular Rebus series. This will be followed by special comment by journalist, BBC radio broadcaster and book author Isabel Hilton, who presented on Chinese environmental issues as a panelist at the Forum’s 2018 Fire & Ice symposium on narratives of climate change.

Register here: http://bit.ly/WHOWEARE1013

This event will also be livestreamed on Facebook: @ucihumcenter