Join us for our second Impact Symposium, which will highlight key findings from ISH’s projects over the last three years and will include three panel discussions: Extremist Recruitment: From Point of Entry to Point of Exit, Mitigating Hate in the Broad Media Landscape, and Studying Hate in Fraught Times.

Register HERE.

See below for panel details. Full program with panelist bios coming soon!

Panel Details:

Extremist Recruitment: From Point of Entry to Point of Exit

This panel will outline various recruitment strategies used by extremist organizations, including novel, disguised, or seemingly benign messaging strategies, focusing on how interventions might be designed to reflect the ever-changing landscape of recruitment and radicalization.

Panelists: Dr. Luwei Ying, Dr. Bethan Johnson, Dr. Aaron Panofsky

Moderated by Dr. Howard Padwa

Mitigating Hate in the Broad Media Landscape

This panel will explore how to design mitigation strategies most effectively for combating hate spread through various forms of media, taking into consideration the limitations of technologies as well as the challenges posed by big tech.

Panelists: Dr. Saadia Gabriel, Dr. Cesi Cruz, Dr. Tim Groeling

Moderated by Dr. Sara Wilf

Studying Hate in Fraught Times

In this panel, UCLA faculty, research scientists, and undergraduate students will join in conversation on the challenges and opportunities researchers, educators, and students are experiencing in the current political and campus climate. The panel will consider this climate and its impact on research on hate–as well as its contribution to identity-based hate experienced by students at UCLA and elsewhere.

Panelists: Dr. Christine Ong, Dr. Aliza Luft, Cecelia Fischer, Yarin Hagay-Nevel, Ryan Horio

Moderated by Dr. David Myers