Richard John serves as Research Theme Co-Leader for Risk Perception and Communication at the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) and associate professor of psychology at University of Southern California. His research focuses on normative and descriptive models of human judgment and decision making and methodological issues in application of decision and probabilistic risk analysis. He will discuss experiments on how well people can recognize false posts to social media following extreme events such as natural disasters and terror attacks. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/johnr

Jennifer Lind is associate professor in the Government Department at Dartmouth College, a faculty associate at the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies at Harvard University, and a research associate at Chatham House, London. She is the author of Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics (Cornell, 2008), which examines the effect of war memory on international reconciliation. In this event, she will discuss some emerging great powers successfully move into the great power ranks while others fail. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/lindj

Gregg Brazinsky works on U.S-East Asian relations and East Asian international history. He is interested in the flow of commerce, ideas, and culture among Asian countries and across the Pacific. He is the author of two books: Winning the Third World (2017), which focuses on Sino-American rivalry in the third world, and Nation Building in South Korea (2007), which explores U.S.-South Korean relations during the Cold War. In this event, Brazinsky will discuss how the Chinese and North Korean governments mobilized their citizens and soldiers during the Korean War. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/brazinskyg

Anne Garland Mahler is assistant professor of Latin American cultural studies at University of Virginia. She is author of From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity (Duke, 2018) and director of the online publication Global South Studies.  Mahler frequently publishes and speaks in the areas of histories of radical internationalism, racial discourses, cold war politics, and postcolonial and Global South theory. This talk traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice movement called the Tricontinental - an alliance of liberation struggles from 82 countries, founded in Havana in 1966. Read more

Brendan Nyhan is professor of public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy of the University of Michigan. His research primarily focuses on misperceptions about politics and health care. He is a contributor to The Upshot blog at The New York Times and a co-founder of Bright Line Watch, a watchdog group that monitors the status of American democracy. In this event he will discuss evidence showing that consumption of fake news in the 2016 and 2018 elections was concentrated among a small group of people with heavily skewed information diets. Read more and register