Lecture: “Hate in America: What Can be Done?”, Oct. 7

Event: Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Intelligence Project, a hate-crimes watchdog group, will speak about “Hate in America: What Can Be Done?”

The lecture is free and open to the public.

When: 2 p.m., Oct. 7, 2008

Where: The Flawn Academic Center Atrium on The University of Texas at Austin campus. Maps are available here.

Background: Potok will discuss the development of organized hatred in the United States, the use of immigration and other issues by radical-right ideologues and the increase of race-motivated violence. He also will examine how different sectors of the community — legislators, law enforcement officials and concerned citizens — can combat these trends.

Potok monitors hate groups and tracks extremist activity throughout the United States. He provides comprehensive updates to law enforcement, the media and the public through the center’s quarterly magazine, Intelligence Report. In 2007, the report was honored as the best U.S. periodical in-depth investigative reporting by the Utne Independent Press Awards.

This lecture is sponsored by the Dean Jack Otis Social Problem and Social Policy Lecture in the School of Social Work, the College of Communication, School of Law and Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

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Contact:
Diana DiNitto
512-471-9227