Journalists Nicole Dungca, Claire Healy and Andrew Ba Tran will give this year’s Burleigh Media Ethics Lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 23, from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Sensenbrenner Hall’s Eisenberg Reading Room (Room 304). The trio will present and discuss their recent project “Revealing the Smithsonian’s Racial Brain Collection.”
The public lecture is hosted by the Diederich College of Communication and the O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism. All members of the Marquette community are invited to attend. Registration and further event information are available online.
The Smithsonian has more than 250 brains collected by a museum anthropologist to further his now-debunked theories about race. The Washington Post spent a year investigating the collection and the Smithsonian’s unreconciled legacy of more than 30,700 body parts, most of which were taken without consent.
The annual Burleigh Media Ethics Lecture addresses topical and moral issues facing the world today. Sponsored annually by the J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication, the lecture honors William R. Burleigh, a 1957 Marquette journalism graduate, who started working for the Evansville, Indiana, Press at age 14 as a sports reporter. He retired in 2000 as president and CEO of the E.W. Scripps Company, having led the transformation of Scripps from primarily a newspaper enterprise into a media company with interest in cable and broadcast television, newspaper publishing, e-commerce, interactive media, licensing and syndication.
Burleigh lectures address ethical issues today’s communicators report on, as well as those they wrestle with in their own work.
