Elizabeth D. Gee Distinguished Lecture in Ethics: Amy Goodman

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April 8, 2016
4:30PM - 6:30PM
100 Independence Hall

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2016-04-08 16:30:00 2016-04-08 18:30:00 Elizabeth D. Gee Distinguished Lecture in Ethics: Amy Goodman The 2016 Elizabeth D. Gee Distinguished Lecture in Ethics will be delivered by Amy Goodman. Amy Goodman is an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter and author. Raised in Bay Shore, New York, she graduated from Bay Shore High School in 1975, and from Radcliffe College in 1984, with a degree in anthropology.  Goodman spent a year studying at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. Goodman's investigative journalism career includes coverage of the East Timor independence movement and Chevron Corporation's role in Nigeria. Since 1996, Goodman has hosted Democracy Now!, an independent global news program broadcast daily on radio, television and the Internet. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Thomas Merton Award in 2004, a Right Livelihood Award in 2008, and an Izzy Award in 2009 for "special achievement in independent media."  In 2012, Goodman received the Gandhi Peace Award for a "significant contribution to the promotion of an enduring international peace."   This event is free and open to the public, no RSVP or tickets required! Democracy Now! Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America by Amy Goodman and David Goodman with Denis Moynihan will be available for sale at the event. Goodman is the author of five books: • 2004 – The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them co-written with her brother, Mother Jones reporter David Goodman. • 2006 – Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People who Fight Back (also with David Goodman). She appeared on the Colbert Report on October 5, 2006 to promote the book. • 2008 – Standing up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (also with David Goodman) details the capabilities of ordinary citizens to enact change. (Was on the New York Times bestseller list.) • 2009 – Breaking the Sound Barrier (with a preface by journalist Bill Moyers), an anthology of columns written for King Features Syndicate. In her first piece she wrote: "My column will include voices so often excluded, people whose views the media mostly ignore, issues they distort and even ridicule." • 2012 – The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope The Elizabeth D. Gee Distinguished Lecture in Ethics was established in honor of the late Dr. Elizabeth Dutson Gee, a senior research associate in the Center for Women’s Studies, in the early 1990s. The Distinguished Lecture in Ethics celebrates Dr. Gee’s enduring legacy as a scholar and an educator and fosters dialogue within the academic and local communities. An advisory committee selects biennially a prominent scholar to speak on an important issue of gender and ethics. Selection as an Elizabeth D. Gee Distinguished Lecturer in Ethics carries with it a monetary award and presentation of an original, scholarly work. 100 Independence Hall Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies wgss@osu.edu America/New_York public
The 2016 Elizabeth D. Gee Distinguished Lecture in Ethics will be delivered by Amy Goodman

Amy Goodman is an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter and author. Raised in Bay Shore, New York, she graduated from Bay Shore High School in 1975, and from Radcliffe College in 1984, with a degree in anthropology.  Goodman spent a year studying at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine.
 
Goodman's investigative journalism career includes coverage of the East Timor independence movement and Chevron Corporation's role in Nigeria. Since 1996, Goodman has hosted Democracy Now!, an independent global news program broadcast daily on radio, television and the Internet. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Thomas Merton Award in 2004, a Right Livelihood Award in 2008, and an Izzy Award in 2009 for "special achievement in independent media."  In 2012, Goodman received the Gandhi Peace Award for a "significant contribution to the promotion of an enduring international peace."  
 
This event is free and open to the public, no RSVP or tickets required!
 
Democracy Now! Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America by Amy Goodman and David Goodman with Denis Moynihan will be available for sale at the event.
 
Goodman is the author of five books:
 
• 2004 – The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them co-written with her brother, Mother Jones reporter David Goodman. 
• 2006 – Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People who Fight Back (also with David Goodman). She appeared on the Colbert Report on October 5, 2006 to promote the book. 
• 2008 – Standing up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (also with David Goodman) details the capabilities of ordinary citizens to enact change. (Was on the New York Times bestseller list.) 
• 2009 – Breaking the Sound Barrier (with a preface by journalist Bill Moyers), an anthology of columns written for King Features Syndicate. In her first piece she wrote: "My column will include voices so often excluded, people whose views the media mostly ignore, issues they distort and even ridicule." 
• 2012 – The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope
 
The Elizabeth D. Gee Distinguished Lecture in Ethics was established in honor of the late Dr. Elizabeth Dutson Gee, a senior research associate in the Center for Women’s Studies, in the early 1990s. The Distinguished Lecture in Ethics celebrates Dr. Gee’s enduring legacy as a scholar and an educator and fosters dialogue within the academic and local communities. An advisory committee selects biennially a prominent scholar to speak on an important issue of gender and ethics. Selection as an Elizabeth D. Gee Distinguished Lecturer in Ethics carries with it a monetary award and presentation of an original, scholarly work.