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Severe Information Disorder: Peter B. Kaufman presents THE NEW ENLIGHTENMENT

April27 at Cambridge Forum in Cambridge, MA

Many of the problems we face today – the global pandemic, the economic crisis, political violence of the kind that rocked the Capitol on January 6th– are the result of our severe information disorder.

It may be time to think anew about our rights to knowledge, our approach to the public sphere, and our concept of information and the public good.

In his book, "The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge,” Peter B. Kaufman fills us in on the history of knowledge and the price that was exacted to disseminate it. Kaufman also identifies the powerful forces that have purposely crippled our efforts to share knowledge widely and freely.

Kaufman is a writer, teacher and documentary producer who works at MIT Open Learning. Among his many roles, he has served as a consultant to the Library of Congress. Kaufman will be joined by Casey Davis-Kaufman (no relation) who is Associate Director of GBH Archives and Project Manager for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.

April27, 4.00pm

Cambridge, MA United States