{"id":39587,"date":"2019-10-07T09:59:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T13:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=39587"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:16:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:16:36","slug":"nolan-moderates-panel-at-symposium-on-narrative-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2019\/10\/07\/nolan-moderates-panel-at-symposium-on-narrative-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolan Moderates Panel at Symposium on Narrative Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/08\/Nolan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/08\/Nolan-515x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38944\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/rachel-nolan\/\">Rachel Nolan<\/a><span>, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, moderated an October 4, 2019 panel as part of a conference hosted by the\u00a0Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University and the Columbia School of Journalism on &#8220;<\/span><span itemprop=\"name\">Uncertain States: Narrative Journalism and Its Limits.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The symposium explored the possibilities and constraints of narrative journalism as it is practiced today. Participants reflected\u00a0on issues central to narrative journalism including choices of tone and structure, selection of themes, front stories, arguments, or central characters, and how to portray situations that don\u2019t lend themselves to tidy conclusions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nolan moderated a panel on &#8220;Character&#8221; that featured\u00a0Matthew Shaer, Suzy Hansen,\u00a0and\u00a0Lizzie Presser. Other panels at the symposium focused on topics including &#8220;Intervention&#8221; and &#8220;Ambivalence.&#8221; Nolan organized and co-hosted the symposium with Brian Goldstone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/rachel-nolan\/\">Rachel Nolan<\/a><span>\u00a0is a historian of modern Latin America. Her research focuses on political violence, Central American civil wars, childhood and the family, historical memory, and U.S.-Latin American relations. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the history of international adoption from Guatemala. Her research has been funded by the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the ACLS\/Mellon Foundation. Dr. Nolan holds a B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard University and a doctorate in Latin American and Caribbean History from New York University. Her dissertation won a Dean\u2019s Outstanding Dissertation Award and NYU\u2019s Outstanding Dissertation Award for the Humanities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Rachel Nolan moderated a panel as part of a symposium on &#8220;Uncertain States: Narrative Journalism and Its Limits.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8414],"tags":[11087,11395,11352,9315],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39590,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39587\/revisions\/39590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}