Wallace House Presents our 2024-2025 lineup of live events with Mazin Sidahmed, Bret Stephens, Lydia Polgreen, María Elena Salinas and Stephen Henderson. Please mark your calendars for the events below and join us.

Join Mazin Sidahmed, 2021 Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow and co-founder of the non-profit newsroom Documented, for a discussion on how shifting our journalism focus from national coverage to local news outlets and from “reporting about” to “reporting for and with” immigrant communities can help us discern immigration fact from fiction and improve outcomes for everyone.

This is an in-person event and will not be live-streamed. However, a recording of the lecture will be available on our website following the event.

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Our 2025 Knight-Wallace Fellow, Dieu-Nalio Chery, will present his photojournalistic work showcasing Haiti’s descent at the first annual symposium titled: “Contextualize Haiti’s Demising Situation.” Dieu-Nalio Chery is a freelance photojournalist from Haiti who is now based in Michigan. For over a decade, Chery worked for The Associated Press, documenting the profound beauty, searing pain and upheaval in his homeland.

The symposium will bring together scholars and specialists in Haitian Studies, filmmakers, photographers and community leaders to discuss current issues relevant to Haiti, the Haitian diaspora, and actors involved in development in Haiti.

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Please join us for an engaging conversation with New York Times technology reporter Kashmir Hill and Shobita Parthasarathy, Faculty Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program. Our speakers will explore the intersection of technology and privacy, addressing some of today’s most salient issues.

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Co-Sponsors:
Gerald R. Ford School

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Meet our Knight-Wallace alumni and discover how their year in Ann Arbor, access to a world-class university’s resources, and dedicated time for a journalism project broadened their perspectives and advanced their careers. They’ll answer your questions and share insights about the Knight-Wallace Fellowship experience.

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Joseph Sywenkyj is the 2024-25 Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia’s Distinguished Fellow, and a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. An award-winning American photographer of Ukrainian descent, Sywenkyj has lived and worked in Ukraine for the last two decades. He is a frequent contributor to publications in Europe and Eurasia and to The Wall Street Journal, and his photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums, including the United Nations Visitor’s Lobby in New York and the Taras Shevchenko National Museum in Kyiv.

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Hosted by:
Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

Co-sponsors:
International Institute

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Join Wallace House and the Institute for Social Research for a live conversation driven by journalism and social science in the run-up to the presidential election. Hear special guests Bret Stephens and Lydia Polgreen of The New York Times, María Elena Salinas of ABC News, and Vince Hutchings of U-M Center for Political Studies in conversation with veteran Michigan journalist Stephen Henderson. As part of the University of Michigan’s Year of Democracy, Civic Empowerment, and Global Engagement initiative, this special event will provide insights on critical issues shaping the 2024 election and social science research on the American voting public.

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Co-Sponsors:
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Institute for Social Research
U-M’s Year of Democracy, Civic Empowerment and Global Engagement initiative
DPTV

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Meet our Knight-Wallace alumni and discover how their year in Ann Arbor, access to a world-class university’s resources, and dedicated time for a journalism project broadened their perspectives and advanced their careers. They’ll answer your questions and share insights about the Knight-Wallace Fellowship experience.

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Holger Roonemaa and Inga Springe are two of the foremost investigative journalists covering the ongoing hybrid war between Russia and the Baltic states. Roonemaa, a 2025 Knight-Wallace Fellow from Estonia, and Springe, from Latvia, have spent years uncovering the covert tactics Russia employs to destabilize their countries—efforts that include funding political parties, spreading disinformation, inciting violence, and launching cyber-attacks. Their work has exposed the persistent threat Russia poses to these NATO allies, despite their integration into the European Union and the alliance two decades ago.

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Hosted by:
Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies

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Wallace House Center for Journalists invites all interested Knight-Wallace Fellowship applicants to an interactive webinar conversation.

Meet our Knight-Wallace alumni and discover how their year in Ann Arbor, access to a world-class university’s resources, and dedicated time for a journalism project broadened their perspectives and advanced their careers. They’ll answer your questions and share insights about the Knight-Wallace Fellowship experience.

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With journalists Baktygul Chynybaeva of Kyrgyzstan, Holger Roonemaa of Estonia and Joseph Sywenkyj of Ukraine and the U.S., in conversation with Geneviève Zubrzycki, Director of the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

As the Kremlin tries to silence independent media through bans, censorship and “foreign agent” labels, this repression has spread to Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where some governments are replicating Putin’s laws and tactics. How can journalists safeguard access to accurate information in the face of these escalating threats?

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The Eisendrath Symposium honors Charles R. Eisendrath, former director of Wallace House, and his lifelong commitment to international journalism.

Co-Sponsor:
Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

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