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Mark Danner Curriculum Vitae
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS Chancellor’s Professor of Journalism and English 2011- present University of California, Berkeley James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs 2007 – present and the Humanities, Bard College
Contributor, The New York Review of Books 1993 - present
Contributor, The New Yorker 2001 – present
Resident Curator, Telluride Film Festival 2013- present
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor of Politics, Al Quds University 2011- 2012 Abu Dis, Palestine
Professor, The Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley 1999 – 2011
Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism and Human Rights,
Bard College 2003 – 2007
Director, The Goldman Forum on the Press and Foreign Affairs,
University of California, Berkeley 2002 – 2005
Staff Writer, The New Yorker 1990 – 2001
Writer and Producer, ABC News, Peter Jennings Reporting 1994 - 1995
Story Editor, The New York Times Magazine 1986 - 1990
Senior Editor, Harper’s Magazine 1984 – 1986
Editorial Assistant, The New York Review of Books 1981 - 1984
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EDUCATION
AB, Harvard College June 1981 Modern Literature and Aesthetics, magna cum laude (Class of 1980)
Utica Free Academy (Utica, NY) June 1976 Regents Diploma, National Merit Finalist
PUBLICATIONS (Books)
Torture and the Forever War (Simon and Schuster [Forthcoming] )
Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War (Nation Books, 2009)
The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War’s Buried History
(New York Review Books, 2006)
Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror (New York Review
Books, 2004)
The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter’s Travels through the 2000 Florida Vote Recount
(Melville House, 2004)
The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War (Vintage, 1994)
AWARDS AND HONORS (SELECTED)
2012 The Best American Magazine Writing, For “Torture,” in “Excerpts from The Encyclopedia
of 9/11,” New York, in Sid Holt, ed. (Columbia, 2012).
2011 Hellen Ingram Plummer Lecture, “Living With the New Normal: Human Rights, US
Foreign Policy and the 2012 Elections,” Georgia State University, Atlanta, April 19
2010 Tanner Lectures in Human Value, “Torture and the Forever War: Living in the State of
Exception,” Stanford University, April 15 and 16.
2010 Andrew and Marian Heiskell Visiting Critic, American Academy in Rome
2008 Andrew and Marian Heiskell Visiting Critic, American Academy in Rome
2007 Coldtype.net Best Political Essays of the Year. For “Words in a Time of War,”
Tomdispatch.com, May 31, 2007.
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2007 Richard Leopold Lecture, “Beyond Endless War: Terror, Iraq and the Growth of American
Foreign Policy,” Northwestern University, November 1st
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2007 W. Bruce Lincoln Lecture, “In War’s Dark Shadow: Americans, Terror and the Coming of
Endless War,” Northern Illinois University, November 14.
2007 The Best American Essays, For “Iraq: The War of the Imagination,” in David Foster
Wallace, ed. (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)
2006 Best American Political Writing, For “Taking Stock of the Forever War,” in Royce Fillipin,
ed. (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006)
2006 Carey McWilliams Award. Presented by the American Political Science Association "to
honor a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics." 2004 Overseas Press Award. The Madeline Dane Ross Award for “Best international reporting in any medium showing a concern for the human condition.” For Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror. 1999 MacArthur Fellow. Named a MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in June 1999. 1998 Overseas Press Award. The Ed Cunningham Award for best magazine reporting from abroad. For "Yugoslav Wars,” The New York Review of Books. 1995 DuPont Gold Baton. "While America Watched: The Bosnia Tragedy," ABC News Peter Jennings Reporting. (Writer and Co-Producer) 1994 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. For The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War. 1994 Emmy Award from Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Story (Program), "While America Watched: The Bosnia Tragedy," ABC News Peter Jennings Reporting, March 17, 1994. (Producer) 1994 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Special Media Award For Outstanding
Coverage of Latin America. For "The Truth of El Mozote," The New Yorker (December 6, 1993) 1993 Overseas Press Award. The Madeline Dane Ross Award for Best International Reporting in any medium showing a concern for the human condition. For "The Truth of El Mozote," The New Yorker (December 6, 1993) 1990 National Magazine Award for Reporting. "A Reporter at Large: Beyond the Mountains, Parts I, II & III," The New Yorker (November 27, December 4 & December 11, 1989.
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AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS (SELECTED)
Member, Board of Trustees, World Affairs Council of Northern California, San Francisco 2004 - 2008
Member, The Century Association, New York 1988- present Member, PEN American Center for Poets, Playwrights, Essayists and Novelists, New York 1998 – present
Fellow, New York University Institute of the Humanities 1993 - present
Member, Council on Foreign Relations, New York 1988 - present
PRIZE JURIES (SELECTED)
2009 Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism Juror
2005 The Lettre Ulyssees Award for the Art of Reportage Juror
2004 The J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Award Juror
1997 The Hammett Prize Juror
PUBLICATIONS (Anthologies and Introductions)
“Torture,” in Sid Holt (ed.), The Best American Magazine Writing 2012 (Columbia University
Press, 2012).
“Now That We’ve Tortured: Image, Guilt, Consequence,” in Biswas and Zalloua (ed.), Torture:
Power, Democracy and the Human Body (University of Washington, 2011).
“Torture and the Forever War: Living in the State of Exception,” in Tanner Lectures Vol 30
(University of Utah Press, 2011).
“US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites,” in Ross Flippin (ed.), Best American Political
Writing 2010 (PublicAffairs, 2009)
“Introduction,’” in Philippe-Paul de Ségur, Defeat: Napoleon’s Russian Campaign (New York
Review of Books, 2008)
“Words in a Time of War” in 2007 Coldtype.net Best Political Essays of the Year,
www.coldtype.net
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“War, fear, and truth“ in Andras Szanto, ed. What Orwell Didn’t Know:
Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics (PublicAffairs, 2007)
“Iraq: The War of the Imagination,” in David Foster Wallace, ed. The Best American
Essays, 2007 (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)
“Taking Stock of the Forever War,” in Royce Fillipin, ed. Best American Political
Writing 2006 (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006) pp. 298-322
“You Can Do Anything with a Bayonet Except Sit on It” (interview) in Tom
Engelhardt, Mission Unaccomplished:Tomdispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts
and Dissenters (Nation Books, 2006) pp.106 - 128.
“Bodies Under Stress,” Catalogue essay accompanying the exhibition “Abu Ghraib:
Abuse of Power,” works on paper by Susan Crile. The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art
Gallery, Hunter College, New York City, September 7 - October 21, 2006.
“Humanism and Terror (What Are You Going To Do With That?),” in Gary Willis and
Nate Hardcastle (editors) The I Hate the 21st Century Reader (Thunder’s Mouth Press,
2006) pp. 157-171.
“Torture and Truth” and “The Logic of Torture,” in Mark Danner, Barbara Ehrenreich,
et al., Abu Ghraib: the Politics of Torture (North Atlantic Books, 2004), pp. 1 - 47.
"The Massacre at El Mozote," in Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe Bourgois (editors),
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2003) pp. 334 - 338.
"Endgame in Kosovo: Ethnic Cleansing and American Amnesia," in William Joseph Buckley,
Kosovo: Contending Voices on Balkan Intervention (Eerdmans 2000), pp 56 – 71.
"Staying On In El Salvador: An Introduction," in Larry Towell, El Salvador
(DoubleTake - Norton, 1997), pp. 11 – 19.
“Iran-Contra,” in Eric J. Schmertz, Natalie Datlof, and Alexej Ugrinsky (editors),
President Reagan and the World (Greenwood Press, 1997)
“Transatlantic Relations - Confronting the Paradigm Change,” in Alton Frye and
Werner Weidenfeld (editors), Europe and America: Between Drift and New Order
(Bertelsmann Foundation and Council on Foreign Relations, 1993)
PUBLICATIONS (Magazines and Periodicals)
“Through the Looking Glass,” Interview with Errol Morris, The Watch, August 29, 2013
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“In Conversation: Robert Silvers,” Interview with Robert Silvers, New York Magazine, April 7,
2013.
“How and What Obama Won,” The New York Review of Books, December 20, 2012.
“The Politics of Fear,” The New York Review of Books, November 22, 2012.
“Six Powerful Voices Deep inside Israel’s Shin Bet,” Interview with Israeli Director Dror Moreh,
The Film Watch (Telluride Film Festival, Colorado), September 2012.
“After September 11: Our State of Exception,” The New York Review of Books, September 11,
2011.
“Torture: Once Anathema, Now a Choice,” New York Magazine, August 27, 2011.
“To Heal Haiti, Look to History, Not Nature,” The New York Times, January 21, 2010.
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“The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means,” The New York Review of Books, April 30,
2009.
“If Everyone Knew, Who’s to Blame?” The Washington Post, April 26, 2009.
“US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites,” The New York Review of Books, April 9, 2009
“Tales from Torture’s Dark World,” The New York Times, March 15, 2009
“On Dick Cheney,” The Guardian (UK), January 17, 2009
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“Frozen Scandal,” The New York Review of Books, December 4, 2008
“Obama & Sweet Potato Pie,” The New York Review of Books, November 20, 2008
“2008: The Weight of the Past,” The New York Review of Books, November 6, 2008
“Sweet Potato Pie in Philly (Web Dispatch),” The New York Review of Books, October
16, 2008
“Weapons of Mass Destruction and Other Imaginative Acts,” The New York Times,
August 27, 2008
“Taking Stock of the Terror War,” Tomdispatch.com, March 25, 2008
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“Bush: entre la fe y la bravunconería,” El Pais, November 10, 2007
“‘The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam’: The Crawford Transcript,” The New
York Review of Books, November 7, 2007.
“War, fear, and truth,” Los Angeles Times, November 4, 2007.
“Words in a Time of War (abridged),” Los Angeles Times, June 1, 2007.
“Words in a Time of War,” Tomdispatch.com, May 31, 2007.
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“Iraq: The War of the Imagination,” The New York Review of Books, December 21,
2006.
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“Taking Stock of the Forever War,” The New York Times Magazine, September 11,
2005.
“Iraq’s Buried History: The Memo, the Press, and the War,” Exchange, The New York
Review of Books, August 11, 2005.
“The Iraq Pretext: Why the Memo Matters,” Exchange, The New York Review of
Books, July 14, 2005.
“Humanism and Terror (What Are You Going To Do With That?),” Commencement
Address at the University of California, Berkeley, The New York Review of Books, June
23, 2005.
“The Secret Way to War,” The New York Review of Books, June 9, 2005.
“An Excerpt from ‘The Secret Road to Abu Ghraib’,” Visual Resources: An
International Journal of Documentation, June, 2005.
“Iraq: The Real Election,” The New York Review of Books, April 28, 2005.
“Bush’s Victory: Second Thoughts,” Exchange, The New York Review of Books,
March 10, 2005.
“Torture and Gonzales: An Exchange,” Exchange, The New York Review of Books,
February 10, 2005.
“We Are All Torturers Now,” The New York Times, Op-Ed Page, January 6, 2005.
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“How Bush Really Won,” The New York Review of Books, January 3, 2005.
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“Seeing the World: James Chace, 1931-2004,” The Lives They Lived, The New York
Times Magazine, December 26, 2004.
“A Doctrine Left Behind,” The New York Times, Op-Ed Page, November 21, 2004.
“The Election and America’s Future,” The New York Review of Books, November 4,
2004.
“Abu Ghraib: The Hidden Story,” The New York Review of Books, October 7, 2004.
“The Logic of Torture,” The New York Review of Books, June 24, 2004.
“Torture and Truth,” The New York Review of Books, June 10, 2004.
“Delusions in Baghdad: An Exchange,” Exchange, The New York Review of Books,
February 12, 2004.
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“Delusions in Baghdad,” The New York Review of Books, December 18, 2003.
“Iraq: How Not to Win a War,” The New York Review of Books, September 23, 2003.
“The Erotic Pull of the Strange: An Introduction,” Zoetrope All-Story, Summer 2003.
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“The Struggles of Democracy and Empire,” The New York Times, Op-Ed Page,
October 8, 2002.
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“The Battlefield in the American Mind,” The New York Times, Op-Ed Page, October
21, 2001.
“The Road to Illegitimacy,” The New York Review of Books, February 22, 2001.
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“Scandal and the Road to Deadlock,” The New York Review of Books, December 21,
2000.
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“The Lost Olympics,” The New York Review of Books, November 2, 2000.
“Clinton and Colombia: The Privilege of Folly,” The New York Review of
Books, October 5, 2000.
“The Shame of Political TV,” The New York Review of Books, September 2, 2000.
“Long Memoris: Srebrenica, A Cry from the Grave,” PBS Frontline, Essay, January
2000.
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“Kosovo: The Meaning of Victory,” The New York Review of Books, July 15, 1999.
“The Endgame in Kosovo,” The New York Review of Books, May 6, 1999.
“’Members of the Club’: A biography of the Bundy brothers, the brilliant Washington
insiders who brought us Vietnam,” New York Times Book Review, April 4, 1999.
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“Operation Storm,” The New York Review of Books, October 22, 1998.
“Bosnien: Warum Der Westen Zuschaute,” Das Magazin/ Tages-Anzeiger (Zurich),
October 2, 1998. [entire issue]
“In the Killing Fields of Bosnia,” New York Review of Books, September 24, 1998.
“Slouching Toward Dayton,” New York Review of Books, April 23, 1998.
“Bosnia: The Great Betrayal,” New York Review of Books, March 26, 1998.
“Bosnia: Breaking the Machine,” New York Review of Books, February 19, 1998.
“Marooned in the Cold War: And Exchange between Mark Danner and George F.
Kennan, Strobe Talbott and Lee H. Hamilton,” World Policy Journal, Volume 4, XIV,
No1, Spring 1998.
“Bosnia: The Turning Point,” New York Review of Books, February 5, 1998.
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“Clinton, the UN, and the Bosnia Disaster,” New York Review of Books, December
18, 1997.
“America and the Bosnia Genocide,” New York Review of Books, December 4, 1997.
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“The US and the The Yugoslav Catastrophe,” New York Review of Books, November
20, 1997.
“Marooned in the Cold War: An Exchange between Richard C. Holbrooke and Mark
Danner,” World Policy Journal, Volume 3 XIV, No4, Winter 1997.
“Marooned in the Cold War: America, the Alliance, and the Quest for a Vanished
World,” World Policy Journal, Volume 3 XIV, No3, Fall 1997.
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“Guardian Angels,” Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, November 25, 1996.
“Hypocrisy in Action: What’s the real Iran-Bosnia scandal?” Comment, The New
Yorker, May 13, 1996.
“Running Free: Mark Danner on an athlete’s trials.” Showcase, The New Yorker,
February 26 & March 4, 1996.
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“Perilous Fight: Haiti’s problems will not yield as easily as its Army,” Comment, The
New Yorker, September 26, 1994.
“House on Fire: America’s Haitian Crisis,” (hour-long television documentary, co-
written with Peter Jennings), Peter Jennings Reporting, ABC News, July 27, 1994.
“Through A Child’s Eyes: The Yugoslav War,” Portfolio Caption, The New Yorker,
April 4, 1994.
“While America Watched: The Bosnia Tragedy,” (hour-long television documentary,
co-written with David Gelber), Peter Jennings Reporting, ABC News, March 30, 1994.
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“The Truth of El Mozote,” A Reporter at Large, The New Yorker, December 6, 1993.
“The Fall of the Prophet,” The New York Review of Books (review-essay, part 3 of 3),
December 2, 1993.
“The Prophet,” The New York Review of Books (review-essay, part 2 of 3), November
18, 1993.
“Haiti on the Verge,” The New York Review of Books (review-essay, part 1 of 3),
November 4, 1993.
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“The Price in Haiti,” Comment, The New Yorker, October 25, 1993.
"How The Foreign Policy Machine Broke Down," The New York Times
Magazine, March 7, 1993.
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“During the nineteen-eighties, while Iraqis and Iranians killed one another by the
hundreds of thousands...,” Comment, The New Yorker, August 17, 1992.
"Postcards From History," Essay, Aperture, Spring 1992.
“Less than a year after Americans paraded in the streets to celebrate victory in the Gulf
War...,” Comment, The New Yorker, May 25, 1992.
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"With the publication of Oliver North's memoirs...," Notes and Comment, The New
Yorker, December 30, 1991.
"Two weeks ago, when Haitian soldiers deposed their country's President...," Notes
and Comment, The New Yorker, October 21, 1991.
"To Haiti, With Love and Squalor," The New York Times Book Review, August 11,
1991.
"It is an axiom of governance that power, once acquired, is seldom freely
relinquished...," Notes and Comment, The New Yorker, July 29, 1991.
"Like an untreated infection within the political system, the Iran-Contra affair
continues to grow...," Notes and Comment, The New Yorker, June 17, 1991.
"Three months after United States Marines liberated Kuwait City, the victors of
Operation Desert Storm...," Notes and Comment, The New Yorker, June 3, 1991.
"In November, a year after the Berlin Wall was breached, American troops and airmen
by the thousand...," Notes and Comment, The New Yorker, January 21, 1991.
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"For almost four months, the United States has been sleepwalking toward war...,"
Notes and Comment, The New Yorker, December 10, 1990.
"A year after the Berlin Wall was breached and the 'post-Cold War era' proclaimed...,"
Notes and Comment, The New Yorker, November 19, 1990.
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"Though the rhetoric surrounding the Middle East crisis has softened somewhat since
the threats of mid-August...," Notes and Comment, The New Yorker, October
1, 1990.
"The great public scandals of the last decade are remarkable, above all, for their
inconclusiveness, their strange resistance to closure...," Notes and Comment, The New
Yorker, September 24, 1990.
"Americans tend to examine distant regimes, and the commitments our government
has made to them, only during times of crisis...," Notes and Comment, The New Yorker,
September 10, 1990.
"Just past ten on a sunny morning last month in Port-au-Prince...," Notes and
Comment, The New Yorker, July 16, 1990.
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"Beyond the Mountains," A Reporter at Large, The New Yorker, December 11, 1989
(Part III).
"Beyond the Mountains," A Reporter at Large, The New Yorker, December 4, 1989
(Part II);
"Beyond the Mountains," A Reporter at Large, The New Yorker, November 27, 1989
(Part I)
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"The Struggle for a Democratic Haiti," The New York Times Magazine, June 21,
1987.
"A World Without Nuclear Weapons?" Introductory Essay, The New York Times
Magazine, April 5, 1987.
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"Though Duvalier Is Gone, Haiti Still Needs Help," The New York Times, Op-Ed
Page, May 19, 1986.
"What Does Government Owe the Poor?" Introductory Forum Essay, Harper's
Magazine, April 1986.
"How Not to Fix the Schools," Introductory Forum Essay, Harper's Magazine,
February 1986.
"Gossiping About Gossip," Introductory Forum Essay, Harper's Magazine, January
1986.
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"In the Age of Cocaine," Introductory Forum Essay, Harper's Magazine, December
1985.
"AIDS: What Is To Be Done?" Introductory Forum Essay, Harper's Magazine,
October 1985.
"Sports: How Dirty A Game?" Introductory Forum Essay, Harper's Magazine,
September 1985.
"Will Books Survive?" Introductory Forum Essay, Harper's Magazine, August 1985.
"The Nuclear Dilemma (II): Is Arms Control Obsolete?" Introductory Forum Essay,
Harper's Magazine, July 1985.
"Is There A Way Out? Nuclear Strategy and the Plausibity of Hope," Introductory
Forum Essay, Harper's Magazine, June 1985.
"Images of Fear: On the Perception and Reality of Crime," Introductory Forum Essay,
Harper's Magazine, May 1985.
"On the Consequences of Vietnam," Introductory Forum Essay, Harper's Magazine,
April 1985.
"Television Looks At Itself," Introductory Forum Essay, Harper's Magazine, March
1985.
"Who Pays For Economic Change?" Introductory Forum Essay, Harper's Magazine,
February 1985.
"Can the Press Tell the Truth?" Introductory Forum Essay, Harper's Magazine,
January 1985.
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"Prophets of the Holy Land: Scenes From the Future of the Middle East," Introductory
Forum Essay, Harper's Magazine, December 1984.
"The Place of Pornography," Introductory Forum Essay, Harper's Magazine,
November 1984.
"Terrorism and the Media," Introductory Forum Essay, Harper's Magazine, October
1984.
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"Should the CIA Fight Secret Wars?" Introductory Forum Essay, Harper's Magazine,
September, 1984.
"Naming the Land: Poetic Variations on An American Theme," Introductory Forum
Essay, Harper's Magazine, August, 1984.
APPEARANCES IN DOCUMENTARY FILMS (SELECTED)
Regarding Susan Sontag, Nancy Kates, dir. (forthcoming; interview July 2012)
The Age of Czeslaw Milosz, Juozas Javaitis, dir. (Facets EDU, 2011)
The Quake, Marcela Baviria, Martin Smith and Will Cohen, prods. (Frontline/PBS, 2010)
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Rory Kennedy, dir. (HBO/Moxie Firecracker Films, 2007)
The Torture Question, Michael Kirk, dir. (Frontline/PBS, 2005)
A Few Bad Apples, Morris Karp, prod. (The Fifth Estate/CBC News, 2005)
Rush to War, Robert Taicher, dir. (RTW Films, 2004)
The War Behind Closed Doors, Michael Kirk, dir. (Frontline/PBS, 2003)
PUBLIC APPEARANCES (SELECTED)
Interview on Syrian Intervention, KPFK
Radio, w/ Ian Masters
9/8/13 Los Angeles, CA
Introduction & Dialogue with Errol
Morris, The Unknown Known, The Galaxy
Theater, Telluride Film Festival.
9/1/13 Telluride, CO
Introduction & Dialogue with Don DeLillo
and Errol Morris, The Zapruder Film and
The Umbrella Man, The Sheridan Opera
House, Telluride Film Festival.
9/1/13 Telluride, CO
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Introduction & Dialogue, A Tribute to
Mohammad Rasoulof & his film
“Manuscripts Don’t Burn”, The Chuck
Jones Theater, Telluride Film Festival.
9/1/13 Telluride, CO
Introduction & Dialogue, Rithy Panh and
his film “The Missing Picture”, The Nugget
Theater, Telluride Film Festival.
8/31/13 Telluride, CO
Dialogue with Don DeLillo, on The
Zapruder Film & La Morte Rouge, The
Sheridan Opera House, Telluride Film
Festival.
8/30/13 Telluride, CO
Dialogue with Agnieszka Holland, on
Burning Bush, The Palm Theater,
Telluride Film Festival.
8/30/13 Telluride, CO
Introduction, Errol Morris’ The Unknown
Known, The Sheridan Opera House,
Telluride Film Festival.
8/29/13 Telluride, CO
Introduction, Agnieszka Holland’s
Burning Bush, The Pierre Theater,
Telluride Film Festival.
8/29/13 Telluride, CO
Dialogue with Errol Morris, Through the
Looking Glass, Telluride WATCH.
8/5/13 Berkeley, CA
Interview, America Abroad, Public Radio
International, w/ Samantha Fields
6/12/13 Minneapolis, MN
Forum, What is Terrorism?, KQED. 5/24/13 San Francisco, CA
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Interview, Radio Krakowskie
Przedmiescie, w/ Łukasz Wojtusik.
5/19/13 Krakow, Poland
Debate, Czeslaw Milosz International
Festival, Evil – Experience and Literature,
w/ Stefan Chwin, Juan Gelman, Michael
Kruger, and Adam Zagajewski.
5/18/13 Krakow, Poland
Event, Czeslaw Milosz International
Festival "Czeslaw Milosz in the Land of
Ullro," w/Adam Zagajewski, renata
Gorczynska, Richard Lourie, Anthony
Milosz.
5/16/13 Krakow, Poland
Talk, Human Rights in Latin America,
Center for Latin American Studies, UC
Berkeley.
5/2/13 Berkeley, CA
Interview, TruthDig Radio, w/ Josh
Scheer.
4/18/13 Berkeley, CA
Interview on Zero Dark Thirty, Brian
Lehrer Show, w/ AO Scott, WNYC.
1/18/13 New York, NY
Interview, NOW, MSNBC, w/Ari Melber,
"Torture and Zero Dark Thirty," North
Gate Hall Studio.
12/27/12 Berkeley, CA
Seminar, “The US Elections and the
Forever War,” Danish Institute for
International Studies.
11/9/12 Copenhagen, Denmark
Introduction, Mark Danner and Joshua
Oppenheimer “The Act of Killing,”
Copenhagen Documentary Festival.
11/8/12 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Panel, “Courthouse Dialogue on Film and
Injustice,” Joshua Oppenheimer, Peter
Sellars and Mark Danner, The
Courthouse, Telluride Film Festival.
9/3/12 Tellruide, CO
Introduction and Q&A, Dror Moreh, “The
Gatekeepers,” The Sheridan Opera House,
Telluride Film Festival.
9/2/12 Telluride, CO
Talk, Ben Affleck, Dror Moreh, Michael
Winterbottom, Ziad Doueiri, Joshua
Oppenheimer and Mark Danner
“Injustice, Reconciliation and Cinema,”
Telluride Park, Telluride Film Festival.
9/2/12 Telluride, CO
Q&A, “No,” Gael Garcia Bernal, Pablo
Larrain, Chuck Jones Theatre, Telluride
Film Festival.
9/2/12 Telluride, CO
Q&A, “The Attack,” Ziad Doueiri and
Mark Danner, The Mason’s Theatre,
Telluride Film Festival.
9/1/12 Telluride, CO
Q&A, “The Act of Killing,” Joshua
Oppenheimer and Mark Danner, The
Mason’s Theatre, Telluride Film Festival.
8/31/12 Telluride, CO
Lecture, Helen Ingram Plummer Lecture,
“Living With the New Normal: Human
Rights, US Foreign Policy and the 2012
Elections”, Georgia State University.
4/19/12 Atlanta, GA
Talk, Karen Malpede’s “Another Life”. 3/21/12 Brooklyn, NY
Dialogue, Ray Bonner Dialogue, “Anatomy
of Injustice”, Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley
3/15/12 Berkeley, CA
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Reading, Story Hour at Morrison Library,
UC Berkeley.
3/8/12 Berkeley, CA
Talk, “Torture, Obama and the New
Normal: Human Rights in the State of
Exception,” Kennedy School at Harvard
University.
2/16/12 Cambridge, MA
Interview, “Mark Danner on El Mozote (El
Salvador)”, Al Jazeera English.
1/17/12
Interview, The Brian Lehrer Show,
“Indefinite Detention”.
12/22/11 New York, NY.
Panelist, Asia Society’s U.S.- China Forum
on the Arts and Literature, “The Power of
Narrative Story Telling - Covering the
World through Photography, Film and
Print Location”.
11/18/11 Beijing, China
Lecture, “Living in Milosz’s House”,
Milosz in America Conference, Yale
University.
11/5/11 New Haven, CT
Lecture, “Reporting on Human Rights:
The Responsibility of Journalists and
NGOs”, Yale Law School.
11/5/11 New Haven, CT
Lecture, Houston Law Review’s 16th
Annual Frankel Lecture, with Philip
Zelikow and David Cole, University of
Houston.
11/4/11 Houston, TX
Interview, This is Hell with Chuck Mertz,
WNUR Chicago.
9/17/11 Chicago, IL
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Interview with Ian Masters, “September 12
- Saudi Warning to U.S. on Palestinian
Statehood and a Real Look Into 9/11; Are
Jobs Obsolete?”.
9/12/11 San Francisco, CA
Interview, “ Ten Years Later: America’s
Role in the World”, KQED Forum with
Michael Krasny.
8/24/11 San Francisco, CA
Interview with Isabelle Masson, Winnipeg
Human Rights Museum.
6/28/11 Winnipeg, Canada
Symposium, “George Crumb/ Winds of
Destiny”, with Peter Sellars, Ojaj North
Festival.
6/18/11 Berkeley, CA
Commencement Address, “Remake this
America: It Needs It”, UC Riverside.
6/12/11 Riverside, CA
Symposium, “Music in the Time of War”,
The Ojaj Festival.
6/10/11 Ojaj, CA
Dialogue, “Haiti: Rebuilding the Shaken
Justice System”, w/Jomanas Eustache &
Nicole Philips at Hastings School of Law.
4/6/11 San Francisco, CA
Lecture, “Libya and the Arab Spring,”
KPFA Radio “Evening with Mark
Danner”.
4/1/11 Berkeley, CA
Dialogue, KALW Media Round Table,
“Libya and The Arab Spring”.
4/1/11 San Francisco, CA
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Interview with Ian Masters, NPR Radio. 3/30/11 Los Angeles, CA
Interview with Phillip Maldari, KPFA
Radio Sunday Morning Show.
3/27/11 San Francisco, CA
Dialogue with Josh Phillips, “Soldiers and
Torture”, University of California,
Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism.
3/4/11 Berkeley, CA
Lecture with Michael Pollan and Gerry
Marzorati, "Can Mainstream Journalism
Survive? Making the Online Times Pay,”
University of California, Berkeley,
Graduate School of Journalism.
3/1/11 Berkeley, CA
Lecture, Haiti Stories/ Istwa Ayiti
Conference, University of California
Humanities Research Institute
1/28/11 Los Angeles, CA
Lecture, "Terror, Torture, Obama: The
US and the New Normal in Human
Rights," Al Quds University.
1/10/11 Ramallah, Israel/Palestine
Lecture, “Terror, Torture, Obama and Us:
Trapped in a Forever War?”, Amherst
College
11/30/10 Amherst, MA
Lecture, “From Anathema to Policy
Choice: Torture, Terror and the American
Way of Law," Boalt Hall Torture
Symposium,
11/4/10 Berkeley, CA
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Lecture, “Terror, Torture, Obama;
Trapped in a Forever War?”, Haverford
College
10/21/10 Haverford, PA
Marfa Dialogues, Ballroom Marfa 9/18/10 Marfa, TX
Seminar, “The US and the World: Obama
and the Search for a New Beginning”
[Given to a class in International
Organizations and Multilateral Diplomacy]
5/21/10 China Foreign Affairs University,
Beijing, China
Lecture, “The Double Crisis: Economics,
Technology and the Revolution in
Journalism” [Given to undergraduate
English majors]
5/20/10 China Foreign Affairs University,
Beijing, China
Lecture, “America and the War on Terror:
The Endless Emergency” [Given to class in
American Studies taught by Professor Mei]
5/18/10 China Foreign Affairs University,
Beijing, China
Lecture, “The Roots of US Foreign Policy:
In Search of a New Cold War” [Given to
class in Diplomatic Negotiation taught by
Professor Liang]
5/17/10 China Foreign Affairs University,
Beijing, China
Lecture and signing 04/29/10 Center for Cinematic Arts, Santa
Fe, NM
Interview, Center for Contemporary Arts,
Santa Fe
04/29/10 Santa Fe, NM
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“Readings & Conversations,” Don DeLillo
in conversation with Mark Danner
04/28/10 Lensic Performing Arts Center,
Santa Fe, NM
Santa Fe Radio Café with host Mary-
Charlotte Domandi, KSFR
04/28/10 Santa Fe, NM
Panel, “Haiti and Recovery from Disaster,”
with Amy Wilentz and Rebecca Solnit
04/24/10 Los Angeles Times Festival of
Books, UCLA
Panel, “America: In Hope or in Crisis?”
with John W. Dean and Tom Hayden
04/24/10 Los Angeles Times Festival of
Books, UCLA
Roundtable, “America’s Leadership in the
Age of Declinism?”
04/23/10 Claremont McKenna College,
Claremont, CA
“America’s Forever Wars: Taking Stock of
the War on Terror and its Progeny,” Panel
discussion about “America’s National
Security Challenge
04/23/10 Claremont McKenna College,
Claremont, CA
Reading and book signing 04/22/10 City Lights Bookstore, San
Francisco, CA
“Daniele Mastrogiacomo presents ‘Days of
Fear,’” in conversation with Mark Danner
04/21/10 Italian Institute of Culture, San
Francisco, CA
Tanner Lectures Discussion Seminar with
Elaine Scarry and Stephen Holmes
04/16/10 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
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Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Part
II: “Naturalizing the State of Exception:
Terror, Fear and the War Without End”
04/15/10 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Tanner Lectures Discussion Seminar with
Eric Posner and Col. Steven Kleinman
04/15/10 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Part I:
“Imposing the State of Exception:
Constitutional Dictatorship, Torture and
Us”
04/14/10 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
The Book Show 04/14/10 Interviewed by Sarah L'Estrange for
ABC Radio National.
City Arts & Lectures 04/12/10 In conversation with Frank Rich,
Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, CA
Letters to Washington 04/12/10 Interviewed by Mitch Jesserich for
KPFK
Authors@Google 03/11/10 Googleplex, Mountain View, CA
ABC Radio National Rear Vision 03/03/10 With David Geggus and Alex
Dupuy
SBS World View 03/01/10 Special Broadcasting Service
www.markdanner.com
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ABC Radio National PM 02/26/10 Interviewed by Marc Colvin
Conversations 02/25/10 Interviewed by Richard Fidler
Mark Danner in conversation with
Geoffrey Garrett
02/25/10 US Studies Centre, Sydney
Mark Danner in conversation with Sandy
McCutcheon
02/24/10 Avid Reader Bookstore, Brisbane
The Conversation Hour 02/23/10 Interviewed by Jon Faine
Mark Danner in conversation with Fran
Kelly
02/19/10 Wheeler Centre, Melbourne
RadioNational Breakfast 02/18/10 Interviewed by Fran Kelly
Why is Haiti Poor? Politics, Disaster and
the Predatory State
02/04/10 Center for Latin American Studies,
University of California Berkeley
Media Roundtable: State of the Union,
Haiti and the London Summit
01/29/10 With Nancy Youssef and Charles
Homans on KALW's Your Call
Radio
www.markdanner.com
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Looking Back on the Age of Genocide 01/28/10 Voices on Genocide Podcast,
United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum
Haiti's Earthquake and its Aftermath 01/20/10 GRITtv with Laura Flanders
Conversations at KCTS9 01/18/10 Interviewed by Enrique Cerna
Constructing Myths of America with Mark
Danner
12/18/09 GRITtv with Laura Flanders
University of South Carolina-Beaufort 12/04/09 Discussing Stripping Bare the
Body: Politics Violence War, at the
University of South Carolina-
Beaufort.
2009 Wellfleet Meetings 10/24/09 With Robert Jay Lifton.
Mark Danner on Bill Moyers Journal 10/16/09 Discussing Stripping Bare the
Body: Politics Violence War, on
Bill Moyers Journal.
Stripping Bare the Body: An Evening with
Mark Danner and Amy Goodman
10/15/09 In conversation with Amy
Goodman at Tishman Auditorium,
The New School, New York.
Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence
War: Mark Danner on Democracy Now!
10/14/09 Interviewed by Amy Goodman on
Democracy Now!
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Investigating CIA Abuses 09/01/09 With Mark Mazzetti and Reuel
Marc Gerecht on On Point Radio
with host Jacki Lyden, WBUR
Boston.
The Red Cross Report and What It Means 06/09/09 Interviewed by Gene Burns, KG0-
AM 810 Radio, San Francisco.
Torture and Security: The Speeches of
President Obama and Dick Cheney
05/21/09 With David Gergen on "Anderson
Cooper 360," CNN.
The Red Cross Report, the Torture Memos
and Political Accountability
05/13/09 Interviewed by Harry Kreisler,
"Conversations with History," the
Institute for International Studies,
University of California Berkeley.
Tortured Reports: Mark Danner and
Dafna Linzer
05/08/09 Bloggingheads, excerpted on
nytimes.com.
Torture on Trial 05/05/09 LinkTV documentary with featured
commentators Mark Danner and
Jane Mayer
Torture: What is to be Done, Now? 05/01/09 With Liz Holtzman at the New
York Institute for the Humanities,
New York University
The Paradoxes of Torture 05/01/09 With Bruce Fein on Bill Moyers
Journal
Torture Memo Backlash 04/17/09 With David Gergen on "Anderson
Cooper 360"
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Red Cross Report: Medics Grossly
Violated Ethics
04/10/09 Interviewed about the ICRC Report
by Michele Norris, "NPR All
Things Considered"
Black Sites Exposed 04/07/09 The Rachel Maddow Show,
MSNBC
Now that We've Tortured: Violence,
Morality and Politics After Bush
04/02/09 Institute for Religion and Culture,
Graduate Theological Union,
Berkeley, CA
Torture at the "Black Sites": An Interview
with Mark Danner
03/27/09 Interviewed about the ICRC Report
by Marty Moss-Coane on WHYY
Philadelphia, "Radio Times."
Torture at the "Black Sites": Mark
Danner on KQED Forum
03/18/09 Interviewed by Michael Krasny on
Forum about the ICRC Report.
Bush Lied About Torture 03/18/09 Interviewed by Amy Goodman on
"Democracy Now!" about the ICRC
Report.
Torture and the Press 03/17/09 C-SPAN's "Washington Journal"
about the ICRC Report and torture
coverage in the press.
Torture at the "Black Sites" 03/17/09 The Rachel Maddow Show,
MSNBC.
The Man Who Discovered the Secret
Torture Papers
03/17/09 Interviewed by Scott Horton about
the ICRC Report on Treatment of
"High Value Detainees" at CIA
'Black Sites'
www.markdanner.com
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Shedding Light on the CIA's "Black Sites" 03/15/09 "All Things Considered," National
Public Radio
US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites 03/14/09 With Hugh Eakin at the New York
Review of Books.
"The Judge and the General: A Discussion
of the Film", Elizabeth Farnsworth and
Mark Danner discuss Farnsworth's film
about the Chilean judge who investigated
Augusto Pinochet.
03/04/09 Herbst Theater, San Francisco, CA
A Historic Day 1/23/09 Darryl Pinckney and Mark Danner
on Barack Obama's historic
presidential Inauguration. A New
York Review of Books podcast.
"The 2008 Presidential Election: A
Discussion'" with Mark Danner, Michael
Tomasky, Peter Galbraith and Frances
Fitzgerald
10/15/08 Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA
"The Consequences to Come": A
Discussion of the 2008 Election with Mark
Danner, Joan Didion, Ronald Dworkin,
and Darryl Pinckney, moderated by
Robert Silvers, The New York Review of
Books
9/14/08 St. Francis Theater, Brooklyn, NY,
Brooklyn Book Festival
The Media, Accountability and the Iraq
War: A discussion with Mark Danner,
Greg Mitchell, Joan McCarter, and
Samantha Power, moderated by Ari
Melber. Netroots conference 2008.
7/19/09 University of Texas, Austin, TX
"House Judiciary Hearings on Torture,
Post Game Show"
6/26/08 Mark Danner and Scott Horton
interviewed by Larry Bensky,
KPFA radio, Berkeley, CA
www.markdanner.com
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Now that We've Tortured: Violence,
Morality and Politics After Bush
04/02/09 Institute for Religion and Culture,
Graduate Theological Union,
Berkeley, CA
Torture at the "Black Sites": An Interview
with Mark Danner
03/27/09 Interviewed about the ICRC Report
by Marty Moss-Coane on WHYY
Philadelphia, "Radio Times."
Torture at the "Black Sites": Mark
Danner on KQED Forum
03/18/09 Interviewed by Michael Krasny on
Forum about the ICRC Report.
Bush Lied About Torture 03/18/09 Interviewed by Amy Goodman on
"Democracy Now!" about the ICRC
Report.
Torture and the Press 03/17/09 C-SPAN's "Washington Journal"
about the ICRC Report and torture
coverage in the press.
Torture at the "Black Sites" 03/17/09 The Rachel Maddow Show,
MSNBC.
The Man Who Discovered the Secret
Torture Papers
03/17/09 Interviewed by Scott Horton about
the ICRC Report on Treatment of
"High Value Detainees" at CIA
'Black Sites'
Shedding Light on the CIA's "Black Sites" 03/15/09 "All Things Considered," National
Public Radio
US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites 03/14/09 With Hugh Eakin at the New York
Review of Books.
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"The Judge and the General: A Discussion
of the Film", Elizabeth Farnsworth and
Mark Danner discuss Farnsworth's film
about the Chilean judge who investigated
Augusto Pinochet.
03/04/09 Herbst Theater, San Francisco, CA
A Historic Day 1/23/09 Darryl Pinckney and Mark Danner
on Barack Obama's historic
presidential Inauguration. A New
York Review of Books podcast.
"The 2008 Presidential Election: A
Discussion'" with Mark Danner, Michael
Tomasky, Peter Galbraith and Frances
Fitzgerald
10/15/08 Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA
"The Consequences to Come": A
Discussion of the 2008 Election with Mark
Danner, Joan Didion, Ronald Dworkin,
and Darryl Pinckney, moderated by
Robert Silvers, The New York Review of
Books
9/14/08 St. Francis Theater, Brooklyn, NY,
Brooklyn Book Festival
The Media, Accountability and the Iraq
War: A discussion with Mark Danner,
Greg Mitchell, Joan McCarter, and
Samantha Power, moderated by Ari
Melber. Netroots conference 2008.
7/19/09 University of Texas, Austin, TX
"House Judiciary Hearings on Torture,
Post Game Show"
6/26/08 Mark Danner and Scott Horton
interviewed by Larry Bensky,
KPFA radio, Berkeley, CA
"The United States, China and the 'Asian
Century'"
4/24/08,
4/29/08 Main Building, Chinese
Foreign Affairs University, Beijing,
China
"After Bush: The Future of US Foreign
Policy"
4/22/08,
4/25/08 Main Building, Chinese
Foreign Affairs University, Beijing,
China
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"The Salvadoran Option": Iraq, Memory,
and the Death Squad War,
4/17/08 Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at
Austin
"Lost in the 'War on Terror': Iraq,
Afghanistan and the Politics of Endless
War"
4/10/08 Simon Fraser University, Vancouver,
British Columbia
“Iraq and the War on Terror”: Speech as
the Andrew and Marian Heiskell Visiting
Critic at the American Academy in Rome
2/28/08 Villa Aurelia, Rome, Italy
“Taking Stock of the Global War on
Terror”: Speech at the 10th
Asia Security
Conference
2/6/08 Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses,
New Delhi, India
“Congressional Oversight of the CIA?”:
Mark Danner interviewed by Jerome
McDonnell
12/13/07 “Worldview” with Jerome McDonnell,
WBEZ 91.5 FM Chicago
“Beyond Endless War - Terror, Iraq and
the American Search For Solvency”:
Inaugural Lecture for the James Clarke
Chace Chair in Foreign Affairs and the
Humanities
12/3/07 Làszlò Z. Bitò ’60 Auditorium, Bard
College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
“What Really Happened at El Mozote?”
Claudia Bernardi and Mark Danner in
conversation
11/17/07 The Guild Theatre, Sacramento, CA
“Beyond Endless War: Iraq, Terror and
American Power”: A Commonwealth Club
Lecture by Mark Danner
11/15/07 The Commonwealth Club, San Francisco,
CA
“In War’s Dark Shadow: Americans,
Terror, and the Coming of Endless War”:
The W. Bruce Lincoln Lecture
11/14/07 Altgeld Hall Auditorium, Northern
Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
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“Beyond Endless War: Terror, Iraq, and
the Growth of American Foreign Policy”
The 18th
Annual Richard Leopold
Memorial Lecture
11/1/07 Harris Hall, Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL
“’The Crawford Transcript’ and Bush’s
March to War”: Mark Danner interviewed
by Lionel
10/25/07 “The Lionel Show,” Air America Radio
“Judge Mukasey as Attorney General,” A
discussion with Abraham Sofaer, Reed
Amar, et al.
10/23/07 “Forum” with Michael Krasny, KQED 88.5 FM San Francisco
“Anticipating the Petraeus Report”: A
Discussion with Clifford May, Megan
Greenwell, Rep. Tom Lantos, and Mark
Danner, moderated by Michael Krasny
9/6/07 “Forum” with Michael Krasny, KQED 88.5 FM San Francisco
"Making American Foreign Policy:
Promoting Democracy": Talk by Mark
Danner
7/5/07 The American Center, Rangoon, Myanmar
Interview with Mark Danner 6/2/07 “This is Hell” with Chuck Mertz, WNUR
89.3 Chicago
“Words in a Time of War”:
Commencement Address by Mark Danner
at Department of Rhetoric and Film
Graduation
5/10/07 Zellerbach Hall, University of
California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
"Bush's State of Emergency: Touching the
Bars of the Cage": Talk by Mark Danner
in "Consequences of the War on Terror,"
a Discussion with Mark Danner, George
Lakoff and Maureen Webb
5/5/07 World Affairs Council of Northern California Annual Conference:
“Rethinking the War on Terror: New Strategies in U.S. Foreign Policy”,
Asilomar, CA
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"Being Provoked: The Costs of Creating a
'War on Terror'": Talk by Mark Danner
on “Military Solutions” Plenary with
Daniel Benjamin
5/5/07 World Affairs Council of Northern California Annual Conference:
“Rethinking the War on Terror: New Strategies in U.S. Foreign Policy”,
Asilomar, CA
"Reporting on Iraq, Living in Terror”:
Conversation with Carolin Emcke & Mark
Danner"
4/28/07 PEN World Voices Festival, Bowery
Ballroom, New York, NY
"Dirty Wars: Readings Against Torture,
Arbitrary Detention, Kidnapping and
Rendition": Reading by Mark Danner,
Nadine Gordimer, Breyten Breytenbach,
Francine Prose et al.
4/26/07 PEN World Voices Festival, Joe’s Pub,
New York, NY
"David Halberstam": Interview with Mark
Danner, Orville Schell and Sandy Tolan
4/25/07 “Open Source” radio program with
Chritopher Lydon, National Public Radio
"The Making of a Quagmire: Iraq and The
War on Terror": Public Lecture by Mark
Danner
4/25/07 Ostrander Auditorium, Minnesota State
University, Mankato, MN
"America and Torture": Panel Discussion
with Mark Danner, Eric Stover and
Michael Posner
4/21/07 North Gate Hall, University of
California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
"Living Literature: From Reading the
Iliad to Covering Iraq": Interview with
Mark Danner by Muriel “Aggie” Murch of
“Living Literature”
4/20/07 American Zoetrope, San Francisco, CA
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“Iraq and the War on Terror”: Interview
with Mark Danner
3/28/07 Swedish National Radio
“Legal Limbo at Guantanamo”: Interview
with Mark Danner, Col. Dwight Sullivan,
and Lee Casey
3/6/07 “Open Source” radio program with
Christopher Lydon, National Public Radio
“The Undeclared War” and “Iraq in
Fragments”: Introduced by Mark Danner
3/4/07 “Witness to War Documentary
Perspectives,” Koret Auditorium, De Young
Museum, San Francisco, CA
Interview with Mark Danner 2/14/07 KALW Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
"Bush's State of Emergency: Human
Rights and the War on Terror": Keynote
Address by Mark Danner
2/10/07 Amnesty International West Coast Conference,
San Francisco, CA
“Into the Light of Day: Torture, Human
Rights and the War on Terror”: Public
Lecture by Mark Danner
1/18/07 Campbell Hall, University of
California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara,
CA
Santa Barbara Public Radio Interview
with Mark Danner on upcoming lecture,
“Into the Light of Day: Torture, Human
Rights and the War on Terror.”
1/17/07 KCBX-FM Radio (NPR) Santa Barbara,
CA
‘Reporting from Iraq” Interview with
Mark Danner
1/10/07 “War News Radio” syndicated program
with Marty
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Goldensohn, Swarthmore College
Radio
“Iraq: The War of the Imagination”
Interview with Mark Danner
1/10/07 CBC Radio, Toronto, Canada.
Conversation with Walid Khalizziha’s
class on "US Policy in the Middle East in
the Post Bush Era."
12/7/06 American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
“Iraq’s Third Act”: Interview with Mark
Danner and John Mearsheimer
12/6/06 “Open Source” radio program with
Christopher Lydon, National Public Radio
Conversation with Walid Khalizziha’s
class on "US Policy in the Middle East in
the Post Bush Era."
12/6/06 American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
"Bush in Winter: Democracy, the
Elections, and Bush's Iraq War": Public
Lecture by Mark Danner
12/5/06 Oriental Room, American University in
Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Seminar with Professor Joel Benin and
Mark Danner on "Comparative Ethnic
Cleansing in Bosnia and Iraq"
12/4/06 American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Conversation with Walid Khalizziha’s
class on "US Policy in the Middle East in
the Post Bush Era."
12/4/06 American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Interview for "Ian Masters' Background
Briefing," on Mark Danner’s New York
Review article, "The War of the
Imagination"
11/26/06 KPFK Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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Conversation with Peace and Conflict
Studies Students
11/17/06 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
"Into the Light of Day: Torture, Human
Rights and the New State of Exception":
Lecture by Mark Danner
11/16/06 Salt Lake Library, Salt Lake City, UT
New Yorker College Tour with Hertzberg
and Danner
11/15/06 Wheeler Hall, University of
California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
"The Politics of the Forever War: Terror,
Rights and George Bush's State of
Exception": Lecture by Mark Danner
11/14/06 The 2006 Remarque Lecture, Kimmel
Center, New York University, New York
NY
Interview for Midday Metro on upcoming
lecture: “Into the Light of Day: Torture,
Human Rights and the New State of
Exception.”
11/14/06 KCPW Utah (phone interview), Salt Lake
City, UT
"A Tragic Choice: The Reality and Legacy
of the Iraq War": Lecture by Mark
Danner
11/8/06 Butler University, Indianapolis, IN
"A Tragic Choice: The Reality and Legacy
of the Iraq War": Lecture by Mark
Danner
11/3/06 Macarthur Fellows Reunion, Chicago, IL
"Into the Light of Day: Human Rights
after Abu Ghraib": Lecture by Mark
Danner
10/20/06 Tressider Union, Stanford University,
Stanford, CA
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"Taking the Gloves Off: Terrorism,
Torture, and Executive Power," with John
Sullivan and Mark Danner
10/19/06 RAND Terror Conference, Los
Angeles, CA
"The Reality and Legacy of the Iraq
War": with Ivan Eland, David Theroux,
and Mark Danner
10/17/06 Independent Institute, Oakland, CA
"America at War: Iraq, Al Qaeda and the
Politics of Terror," with Lawrence Wright
and Mark Danner
10/11/06 “Litquake” literary festival, Swedish
American Hall, San Francisco, CA
"The Erotic Pull of the Strange," hosted by
Benjamin Tarnoff
9/29/06 The Harvard Advocate, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
Kiely Symposium, “Why Words Matter”:
Conversation with Andrew DelBanco, Cass
Sunstein and Jeffrey Rosen
9/29/06 Barker Center, Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA
“Washington's response to torture and
warrantless wiretapping”: Conversation
with Jeffrey Klein, founding editor of
Mother Jones, Lisa Hajjar, professor at the
University of California-Santa Barbara
and Mark Danner.
9/24/06 KPFA 94.1FM "Sunday Salon" with Larry
Bensky
“Consequences of the War on Terror,” a
discussion with George Soros, Lowell
Bergman, Dana Priest, Christopher Edley
and Mark Danner, moderated by Orville
Schell.
9/19/06 Zellerbach Hall, the University of
California, Berkeley
Consultation with Iraq Study Group,
James Baker and Less Hamilton, chairs.
Thomas Friedman, George Packer, Tom
Ricks, and Mark Danner.
9/19/06 The Iraq Study Group, United States Institute for Peace,
Washington, DC
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“The Secret Way to War: The Downing
Street Memo and the Iraq War’s Buried
History” book-talk by Mark Danner.
Broadcast on C-SPAN2 Book TV.
7/11/06 The Mechanics’ Institute,
San Francisco, CA
“The War Tapes,” discussion with the
director and Mark Danner
6/26/06 The Castro Theater, San Francisco, CA
“The Road to Guantanamo” post-
screening discussion with Mark Danner
6/20/06 1 Embarcadero Center Cinema,
San Francisco, CA
“The Making of US Foreign Policy,”
lecture by Mark Danner and Peter Tarnoff
6/2/06 Chinese Foreign Affairs University,
International Center Beijing, China
“Iraq, Iran, and the Future of the Middle
East,” lecture by Mark Danner and Peter
Tarnoff
6/1/06 Chinese Foreign Affairs University,
International Center Beijing, China
“History of American Foreign Policy: It’s
Trends and Tendencies,” lecture by Mark
Danner and Peter Tarnoff
5/31/06 Chinese Foreign Affairs University,
Main Administration Building,
Beijing, China
“The Fundamentals of American Foreign
Policy,” lecture by Mark Danner and Peter
Tarnoff
5/30/06 Chinese Foreign Affairs University,
International Center,
Beijing China
“Wrestling with the Iraq War” a
discussion with Haifa Zanguna, Rod
Barton, Whit Mason and Mark Danner
5/26/06 Sydney Writers’ Festival,
Sydney Town Hall,
Sydney, Australia
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“How To Think About Iraq” a discussion
with Haifa Zanguna, and Mark Danner
5/25/06 Sydney Writers’ Festival,
Riverside Theatre, Parramatta,
Sydney, Australia
“The Media and the Iraq War,” a
discussion with Anna Politkovskaya,
Hendrik Hertzberg, Steven Poole, Wendy
Bacon and Mark Danner
5/25/06 Sydney Writers’ Festival,
Sydney Theatre, Sydney Australia
“The Secret Way to War: The Downing
Street Memo and the Iraq War’s Buried
History,” Mark Danner interviewed by
Steve Scher
5/11/06 “The Weekday Show” KUOW 94.9 FM, NPR.
Seattle, WA.
“The Secret Way to War: The Downing
Street Memo and the Iraq War’s Buried
History,” book-talk by Mark Danner.
Tape-delay Broadcast by KUOW 94.9 FM,
7/5/06
5/10/06 Town Hall, Seattle, WA
“The Reality and Legacy of the Iraq War,”
Mark Danner interviewed by Alan Jones.
5/7/06 Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA.
“The Forum” with Alan Jones
“The Iraq War: Past, Present, Future”
Mark Danner interviewed by Pratap
Chaterjee, Black Oak Books, Global
Exchange, sponsors, live broadcast on
KPFA 94.1 FM
5/3/06 Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community
Center, Berkeley, CA
“The Secret Way to War: the Downing
Street Memo and the Iraq War’s Buried
History” Mark Danner interviewed by
Eileen Javar, KPFA
5/3/06 “The Morning Show” KPFA 94.1 FM,
Berkeley, CA
“The Reality and Legacy of the Iraq War
(and will Iran be next?)” lecture by Mark
Danner, introduced by Peter Tarnoff
5/1/06 Sibley Hall, The University of
California, Berkeley
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“The Secret Way to War: The Downing
Street Memo and the Iraq War’s Buried
History,” Mark Danner interviewed by
Michael Krasny
5/1/06 “Forum” with Michael Krasny, KQED 88.5 FM San Francisco
“Iraq: What Next?” a discussion with
Robert Scheer, John Arquilla, Mark
Danner, and Scott Ritter. Marjorie Miller,
moderator.
4/29/06 The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
UCLA, Los Angeles
“Into the Light of Day: Torture, Human
Rights and Bush’s State of Exception”
lecture by Mark Danner
4/27/06 Linfield College, McMinnville, OR
“The Age of Frozen Scandal: Power and
the Press after 9/11” lecture by Mark
Danner
4/27/06 Willamette University, Salem, OR
“Human Rights in a Dark Time: From
Salvador to Iraq and the War on Terror,”
lecture by Mark Danner
4/26/06 Willamette University, Salem, OR
“Into the Light of Day: Torture, Human
Rights, and Bush’s State of Exception,”
lecture by Mark Danner
4/21/06 The University of Miami, Miami, FL.
The Appignani Foundation Lecture on Science, Reason, and
Secular Ethics
“The Secret Way to War: The Downing
Street Memo and the Iraq War’s Buried
History,” book-talk by Mark Danner
4/20/06 City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CA
“The Greatest Story Ever Sold,” lecture by
Frank Rich, introduced by Mark Danner
4/10/06 Zellerbach Hall, The University of
California, Berkeley. “Strictly Speaking”
lecture series
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“The Secret Way to War: The Downing
Street Memo and the Iraq War’s Buried
History,” book-talk by Mark Danner (in
association with Looking Glass Books,
Portland)
4/7/06 First Unitarian Church of Portland,
Portland, OR
“Into the Light of Day: Torture, Human
Rights, and Bush’s State of Exception,”
lecture by Mark Danner
4/6/06 The Portland Center for Cultural Studies,
Portland State University, Portland,
OR
“US Foreign Policy and the Future,” Mark
Danner and Michael Pillsbury in
conversation with Peter Schwartz
4/6/06 The Global Business Network,
Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco
“Czeslaw Milosz: A Tribute,” with Robert
Hass, Robert Faggen, Jane Hirshfield,
Brenda Hillman, Mark Danner, Michael
Palmer, Anthony Milosz, Lillian Valle, et
al.
4/2/06 The San Francisco Public Library, San
Francisco, CA
“The Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz,” Lillian
Valle and Mark Danner interviewed by
Michael Krasny
3/30/06 “Forum” with Michael Krasny, KQED 88.5 FM San Francisco
“Iraq: Reports from the Frontlines,” a
discussion with Orville Schell, John F.
Burns, Jackie Spinner, Mark Danner, and
Anna Badkhen
3/13/06 The Goldman Forum on the Press and
International Affairs, University of
California, Berkeley. Wheeler Hall
“Meet the Author: The Erotic Pull of the
Strange - Writing Fictional Non-Fiction,”
solo session, Mark Danner introduced by
J.M. Coetzee
3/9/06 The Adelaide Writers’ Festival,
Adelaide, Australia
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“Writing About War” panel discussion,
Robert Fisk, Sandy McKutcheon, Robert
Nash and Mark Danner
3/8/06 The Adelaide Writers’ Festival,
Adelaide, Australia
“Staying in Print: Literary Magazines We
Live By,” panel discussion, James Bradley,
Mary Kay Wilmers, Malcolm Kmnox, Ivor
Indyk and Mark Danner
3/6/06 The Adelaide Writers’ Festival, Adelaide,
Australia
“On Covering A Very Dirty War: Remarks
on Marcel Ophuls’ ‘The Troubles We’ve
Seen,’” introduction by Mark Danner
2/19/06 The Pacific Film Archive,
Berkeley, CA, Human Rights Film
Festival
“Into the Light of Day: Torture, Human
Rights, and Bush’s State of Exception,”
lecture by Mark Danner
2/15/06 University of Californi-San Diego, the Dewitt
Higgs memorial lecture
“The Politics we Live Now,” Mark Danner
in conversation with George Lakoff
2/8/06 College Preparatory School, Oakland, CA, CPS “Livetalk” lecture
series
“Can Democracy Tame Raw Power?
Thoughts on Mick Jackson’s ‘A Very
British Coup’ (1988),” film presentation
and lecture by Mark Danner
12/12/05 “Love and Terror” film series, Weis cinema,
Bard College
“A Man Is a Man: Coming to Grips with
Ryszard Bugajski’s ‘Interrogation’
(1982),” film presentation and lecture by
Mark Danner
12/5/05 “Love and Terror” film series, Weis cinema,
Bard College
“A Policier ‘Don Juan’: Mike Figgis’
‘Internal Affairs’ (1990),” film screening
and lecture by Mark Danner
11/28/05 “Love and Terror” film series,
Weis Cinema, Bard College
www.markdanner.com
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“A Don Juan of the Working Class: ‘Alfie’
(1966),” film screening and lecture by
Mark Danner
11/21/05 “Love and Terror” film series,
Weis Cinema, Bard College
“Fidelio,” introductory remarks by Mark
Danner, Donald Runnicles and Peter
Sellars
11/19/05 The San Francisco Opera,
War Memorial Opera House,
San Francisco, California
“Hope and Fear” Symposium, keynote
lecture by Mark Danner
11/18/05 Wayne State University, Center for the
Humanities, Detroit, Michigan
“Human Rights in a Dark Time:
From Salvador to Iraq and the War on
Terror,” lecture by Mark Danner,
sponsored by the Detroit Province Order of
Jesuits
11/17/05 University of Detroit-Mercy,
Detroit, Michigan
“The Future of Iraq” Mark Danner and
George Packer in conversation
11/16/05 University of Washington, Seattle.
The New Yorker College Tour
“Humanitarian Intervention and the
Clinton Years” a panel with Roy Gutman,
Gen. William Nash, and Michael
O’Hanlon, moderated by David Green
11/11/05 Hofstra University, New York.
William Jefferson Clinton
Presidential Conference
“The Age of Frozen Scandal: Torture and
Truth after Abu Ghraib” lecture by Mark
Danner, sponsored by Amnesty
International, Peace Now, Democracy for
America, Unitarians of America.
11/9/05 Unitarian Universalist Church,
Princeton, New Jersey
“Torture, the Press, and Human Rights
after Abu Ghraib,” lecture by Mark
Danner
11/9/05 Woodrow Wilson School for Pubic Policy
and International
www.markdanner.com
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Affairs, Princeton University,
Princeton New Jersey
“Neofascism and the Cold War: Costa-
Gavras’ ‘Z’” Z (1969), Screening and
discussion presented by Mark Danner
11/7/05 Love and Terror” film series,
Weis Cinema, Bard College
Guest lecture by Mark Danner in “World
Politics” class, Prof. Pavel Machala,
Department of Political Science
11/3/05 Amherst College, Amherst, MA
“Power, the Press, and the Iraq War:
Torture and Human Rights after Abu
Ghraib,” lecture by Mark Danner
11/2/05 Converse Hall Amherst College,
Amherst, MA
Guest Lecture by Mark Danner in “The
State and Violence” class, Prof. Sayres
Rudy, Department of Political Science
11/2/05 Amherst College, Amherst, MA
“All Stress, no Love?: ‘Shampoo,’ Don
Juan, and the Anti-Heroism of the Sixties”:
Shampoo (Ashby 1975) Screening and
discussion presented by Mark Danner
10/31/05 “Love and Terror” film series,
Weis Cinema, Bard College
“The Secret Histories: Hidden Truths that
Challenged the Past and Changed the
World,” Morley Safer, Philip Gourevitch,
Mark Danner, and John S. Friedman: a
discussion of investigative journalism and
role of journalists in uncovering hidden
truths.
10/26/05 The Cooper Union, Wollman Auditorium,
51 Astor Place, New York, New York
“Colonialism, Counter-Insurgency, and
Pontecorvo’s ‘Burn!’”: Burn!
(Pontecorvo 1969)
Screening and discussion presented by
Mark Danner
10/20/05 “Love and Terror” film series.
Weis Cinema, Bard College
www.markdanner.com
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Nicholas Rizopulis Foreign Policy
Roundtable: Mark Danner’s “Taking
Stock of the Forever War,” Mark Danner,
discussant
10/19/05 Carnegie Council on Ethics and International
Affairs, New York City
“The New Yorker Town Hall Meeting on
Iraq,” with James Woolsey, Douglas Feith,
Mark Danner, Ren al-Rahim, George
Packer, and Robert Baer, moderated by
Jeffery Goldberg
9/23/05 The New Yorker Festival,
Town Hall, 123 West 43
rd Street
New York, New York
Interview with Mark Danner 9/22/05 “The Al Franken Show” radio program,
AirAmerica Radio
“The War on Terror, four years on,”
Mark Danner interviewed by Al Franken
on New York Times Magazine Danner
cover-story “Taking Stock of the Forever
War” 9/11/05
9/15/05 “On Point” Radio Program
WBUR 90.9 FM Boston
“The War on Terror, four years on,”
Mark Danner interviewed by Tom
Ashbrook on New York Times Magazine
Danner cover-story “Taking Stock of the
Forever War” 9/11/05
9/12/05 Fox News Radio, “The Alan Colmes National
Radio Program”
“The War on Terror, four years on,”
Mark Danner interviewed by Alan Colmes
on New York Times Magazine Danner
cover-story “Taking Stock of the Forever
War” 9/11/05
9/9/05 The Charlie Rose Show, PBS Channel 13, New
York, NY
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“The War on Terror, four years on,”
Mark Danner interviewed by Charlie Rose
on New York Times Magazine Danner
cover-story “Taking Stock of the Forever
War” 9/11/05
9/9/05 KVON-1440 AM Napa, California, “Morning
Edition” Radio Program
“Taking stock of the War on Terror four
years on,” Mark Danner interviewed by
Jeff Schectman on New York Times
Magazine Danner cover-story “Taking
Stock of the Forever War” 9/11/05
9/8/05 Emerson College, Center for Liberal and
Interdisciplinary Studies, Boston Massachusetts
“On the Battle of Algiers”, keynote address
by Mark Danner at opening symposium,
“Enacting Freedom: Individual Choice and
Collective Responsibility”
7/10/05 CBC Radio, Toronto Canada
“Sunday Edition”
“Torture Policy and the age of Frozen
Scandal” Mark Danner interviewed on
Canadain Radio
6/23/05 The National Holocaust Museum,
Washington DC
“The Massacre at Srebrenica: 10 years
Memorial” Mark Danner with Jan Willem
Honig and Srebrenica survivors
6/7/05 WPR Wisconsin Public Radio
“Ideas Network”
“Abu Ghraib One Year on” Mark Danner
interviewed by Kathleen Dunn
6/1/05 The New York Public Library,
Celeste Bartos Forum 42
nd Street and 5
th Avenue,
New York City
“Live at the NYPL: The Question of
Torture” A conversation with Mark
Danner, Mark Bowden, Darius Rejali, and
Elaine Scarry, moderated by Aryeh Neier
6/1/05 Carnegie Council on Ethics and International
Affairs, New York City
Nicholas Rizopulis Foreign Policy
Roundtable: David Hendrickson’s “The
Curious Case of American Hegemony,”
guest appearance by Mark Danner
5/15/05 UC-Berkeley Department of English Commencement, The Hearst Greek Theater,
www.markdanner.com
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Berkeley, CA
“Humanism and Terror (What are you
going to do with THAT?)” Commencement
address by Mark Danner
5/13/05 Zellerbach Hall, University of California
Berkeley
“Being Opinionated in America” Thomas
L. Friedman and Maureen Dowd in
conversation with Mark Danner and
Cynthia Gorney
5/12/05 Corpus Christi Church, Park Blvd.
Piedmont-Oakland, California
“Torture, Truth, and Democracy,” lecture
by Mark Danner, hosted by Kevin Kelly
5/12/05 The Al Franken radio program,
AirAmerica Radio, broadcast live
from San Francisco City Hall,
California
“The Downing Street Memo and the Secret
Way to War” Mark Danner interviewed by
Al Franken
5/2/05 Harry Kreisler International Affairs Class, University of California, Berkeley
“Human Rights and the War on Terror”
Mark Danner, John Yoo, and Tom Farer
5/1/05 “Sunday Monitor” Radio Program,
KPFT FM Houston, Texas
“Torture and Truth”. Mark Danner
interviewed by Mark Vallely
4/30/05 Asilomar, California, Annual Conference of
the World Affairs Council of Northern
California
“The Iraq Elections and the Future,”
plenary: Judith Miller and Mark Danner
in conversation
4/28/05 Christ Episcopal Church,
Dearborn, Michigan
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“Torture, Truth, and Democracy,” Mark
Danner lecture, hosted by the Reverend
Harry T. Cook, respondents Bishop
Thomas Gumbleton, Hassan Qazwini, and
Shareef
4/27/05 Overseas Press Club Gala Awards Dinner, Grand Hyatt Hotel,
New York City
Acceptance speech for the 2005 Madeline
Dane Ross Prize, awarded to Mark Danner
for the best nonfiction book on
international affairs of the year (for
Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib,
and the War on Terror)
4/27/05 Carnegie Council on Ethics and International
Affairs New York City
Nicholas Rizopoulis Foreign Policy
Roundtable, guest appearance by Mark
Danner
4/25/05 University of California Berkeley Graduate
School of Journalism, “The History of Documentary
Film” class with Jon Else
Pontocorvo’s “The Battle of Algiers” guest
lecture by Mark Danner
4/23/05 The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books,
Ackerman Hotel Grand Ballroom,
Los Angeles, California
“Are We all Torturers Now? Human
Rights after 9/11” A panel discussion with
Mark Danner, Angelo Codevilla, and
Robert Scheer, moderated by Steve
Wasserman
4/8/05 Yale Law School The Orville H. Schell
Jr. Center for International Human
Rights New Haven, Connecticut
“Are we all Torturers Now”
Guest workshop by Mark Danner,
sponsored by the Schell Center for Human
Rights
4/7/05 The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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“Are We all Torturers Now? Power, the
Press, and Human Rights after Abu
Ghraib” Lecture by Mark Danner.
Sponsored by the Francois-Xavier
Bagnoud Center for Health and Human
Rights (HSPH), the University Committee
on Human Rights Studies, and the Center
for Public Leadership
4/3/05 The Rothko Chapel, Houston, Texas
The Oscar Romero Human Rights Prize
Ceremony. Keynote address by Mark
Danner, award to Sister Dianna Ortiz and
Torture Abolition and Survivors Support
Coalition Inernational (TASSC)
3/13/05 Fort Wayne Cinema Center,
437 East Berry Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana
“Gunner Palace” [film] Introductory
remarks by Mark Danner
3/11/05 “Morning Edition” Radio Program, NPR
“Church Report Fails to Examine Links
Between Policy, Abuse” Mark Danner
interviewed by Renee Montagne
3/11/05 The Progressive Radio Program,
Madison, Wisconsin
(www.progressive.org)
Mark Danner interviewed by Matt
Rothschild
3/10/05 The University of Wisconsin, Madison,
The Media of Conflict and the
Cultural Imaginary conference,
Presented by the Legacies of
Violence Research Circle
“Torture—Learning to Live with it:
Power, the Press, and the Double-Sided
Photograph” Lecture by Mark Danner,
introduced by Matt Rothschild, the
Progressive Magazine
3/9/05 A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books 601 Van Ness
San Francisco, California
“Torture and Truth: America, Abu
Ghraib, and the War on Terror” (Book-
talk, Q&A, signing)
3/8/05 “Forum” with Michael Krasny, KQED 88.5 FM San Francisco
www.markdanner.com
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Mark Danner interviewed by Michael
Krasny on the politics of torture
3/7/05 Cody’s Books, 2454 Telegraph
Avenue, Berkeley, California
“Torture and Truth: America, Abu
Ghraib, and the War on Terror” (Book-
talk, reading, and Q & A)
3/6/05 “Weekend Daybreak” Television program,
KRON-TV San Francisco
Mark Danner on torture and the future of
the Iraq War
3/5/05 The Dolby Chadwick Gallery, 210 Post Street San Francisco. Benefit for St. Mary’s School.
Readings by Mark Danner, Robert Hass,
Bharti Mukherjee, Clarke Blaise, Chester
Aaron, hosted by Brenda Hillman
2/17/05 University of San Francisco, Center for
the Pacific Rim, 2130 Fulton Street, San
Francisco, CA
“What Went Wrong?: America, Abu
Ghraib, and the War on Terror,” a
conversation with Mark Danner and
Jeffrey Brand moderated by Patrick
Hatcher
2/17/05 Launch Radio Networks, National
“Tour”: WBSM Springfield Ma., WPRO Providence, WINK Fort
Myers, WOWO Fort Wayne, KDKA
Pittsburgh, KMED Medford OR, WCCO Minneapolis, WKBN
Youngstown, OH
“Torture and Truth,” Mark Danner
interviewed by Pete Braley, Ron St. Pierre,
Dave Elliott, Charlie Butcher, Mike Pintek,
Bill Meyer, Jack Rice, Dan Rivers, and
Marc Bernier
2/13/05 “Background Briefing” Radio Program, KPFA 90.7 FM Los Angeles
(Pacifica Radio Network)
www.markdanner.com
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“The Future of Iraq” Mark Danner
interviewed by Ian Masters
2/11/05 “Media Roundtable with Laura Flanders” KALW 90.7 FM San
Francisco
“The Iraq Elections, The Bush
Administration, and the Politics of the
Press”
Mark Danner in conversation with Laura
Flanders and Albert Krebs
2/10/05 “Uprising” Radio Program, KPFK 90.7
FM Los Angeles (Pacifica Radio
Network)
“Torture and Truth” Mark Danner
interviewed by Sonali Kolhatkar
2/9/05 Goldman Salon, University of California
Graduate School of Journalism, Berkeley,
CA North-Gate Hall
“Report from Baghdad: What Really
Happened in the Iraqi Election—and what
does it mean?” Lecture by Mark Danner
2/4/05 Boulder International Humanist Institute
2005 Speaker Series, Millennium Harvest House Hotel,
28th
Street, Boulder, CO
“Torture—Learning to Live with It?
Power, the Press, and the Lost Art of
Outrage”
keynote address by Mark Danner, full
program titled, “Humanist Ethics: A
Roadmap to Personal and World Peace”
2/3/05 Tattered Cover Bookstore
1628 16th
Street
Denver, CO
“Torture and Truth: America, Abu
Ghraib, and the War on Terror” (book
talk and signing, Q& A)
1/23/05 C-SPAN II Book TV Olsson’s Books &
Records, Arlington, Virginia
“Torture and Truth: America, Abu
Ghraib, and the War on Terror” (book
talk, Q & A, taped 1/13/05)
1/18/05 Columbia University School of Law New York, NY
www.markdanner.com
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“Detainee Abuse: A Crisis in International
Human Rights Law,” Professor Scott
Horton, guest lecture by Mark Danner
1/18/05 “Earthwatch” Radio Program with Robert
Knight, WBAI 99.5 FM New York, NY
“The Gonzales Hearings and the upcoming
Iraqi Election” Mark Danner interviewed
by Robert Knight
1/16/05 “Background Briefing” with Ian Masters Radio Program, KPFK 90.7
Los Angeles, CA
“On torture and the approaching elections
in Iraq” Mark Danner interviewed by Ian
Masters
1/14/05 “Newsnight with Aaron Brown” CNN
“Torture and Truth: Alberto Gonzales’
confirmation hearings” Mark Danner
interviewed by Aaron Brown
1/12/05 “Majority Report” with Janeane Garolfalo, Air
America Radio Network
“Torture and Truth: Alberto Gonzales’
Confirmation Hearings” Mark Danner
interviewed by Janeane Garolfalo
1/12/05 Coliseum Books, 11 West 42
nd Street
New York, NY
“Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib
and the War on Terror” (book talk, Q &
A)
1/12/05 “Steve Rendell Radio Program” FAIR Radio
Network, New York, NY
“Torture as American Policy?: On the
Confirmation Hearings of Alberto
Gonzales”
Mark Danner interviewed by Steve Rendell
1/11/05 “The O’Franken Factor” Radio Program, Air America Network
“The Confirmation Hearings of Alberto
Gonzales” Mark Danner interviewed by Al
Franken
1/10/05 “To the Point” with Warren Olney, WNYC
Radio 93.9 FM New York, NY
www.markdanner.com
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“Torture and the Gonzales Hearings”
Mark Danner interviewed by Warren
Olney
1/9/05 “Sunday Salon” with Larry Bensky, KPFA
Radio 94.1 FM, Berkeley, CA
“Breakthrough on Capitol Hill? The Ohio
Election and The Gonzales Hearings”
Mark Danner interviewed by Larry
Bensky
1/8/05 “The Big Talker” Joe Martin Radio
Program WPHT 1210 AM
Philadelphia
“We are All Torturers Now” Mark Danner
interviewed by Joe Martin
1/7/05 “Democracy Now!” with Amy Goodman,
Pacifica Radio Network
“Gonzales Grilled on Role in Torture at
Confirmation Hearing” Analysis of the
hearings by Mark Danner, interviewed by
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez
1/6/05 “On Point” Radio Program
WBUR 90.9 FM Boston
“The Confirmation Hearings of Alberto
Gonzales” Mark Danner in conversation
with Tom Ashbrook, Jack Beatty, and
David Rivkin
1/6/05 CBC Radio, Toronto
“The Confirmation Hearings of Alberto
Gonzales” Mark Danner interviewed by
Thomas Rose
1/6/05 “Democracy Now!” with Amy Goodman,
Pacifica Radio Network
“Alberto Gonzales’ Role in Torture Memos
like a “Mafia Lawyer Whose Job it is to
Help the Don stay out of Jail” Mark
Danner interviewed by Amy Goodman and
Juan Gonzalez
12/17/05 “Politics with Rachel Robson” Radio
Program, KJHK 90.7 FM Kansas
“Abu Ghraib, the War on Terror, and the
Second Term of George W. Bush” Mark
Danner interviewed by Rachel Robson
12/9/04 The Carnegie Council on International Affairs,
New York, NY
www.markdanner.com
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“The Indispensable Nation: A Tribute to
James Chace” Remarks by Mark Danner,
David Frompkin, et al.
11/26/04
The Charlie Rose Show, PBS Channel 13, New
York, NY
“A Discussion of the 2000 and 2004
Elections” with Mark Danner, Dennis
Johnson, and Renata Adler, hosted by
Charlie Rose (program taped 11/5/04)
11/15/04 “Morning Sedition” Air America Radio
Network with Marc Maron and
Mark Riley
Mark Danner in conversation with Marc
Maron and Mark Riley
11/14/04 The Century Club New York, NY
“James Chace: A Celebration” Remarks
by Mark Danner delivered at the memorial
service for James Clark Chace
11/8/04 NYU Law School Open Forum on
Law and Security,
New York, NY
"The Trial of Saddam Hussein: Legal and
Poltiical Visions" A conversation with
Mark Danner, Noah Feldman, Gary Bass,
and Tom Parker, moderated by Stephen
Holmes
10/29/04 Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, Washington,
DC
‘Torture and Truth: America, Abu
Ghraib, and the War on Terror” A book-
talk by Mark Danner, sponsored by The
Open Society Insitute, Washington DC
office
10/29/04 “On Point” Radio Program,
WBUR 90.9 FM Boston, MA
“Is America Ready to Vote?” Mark
Danner, Greg Palast et al. interviewed by
Tom Shbrook
10/25/04 UC Berkeley Graduate School of
Journalism,
Wheeler Hall,
Berkeley, CA
"Has the Press Failed Iraq? - War,
Torture, Accountability" A conversation
with Mark Danner, Michael Massing, and
Bob Silvers, The New York Review of
Books. Moderated by Orville Schell,
10/24/04 J Occidental College, Los Angeles,
CA
www.markdanner.com
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Wheeler Auditorium, Berkeley, CA
"The Media and Iraq: What Went
Wrong?"
A conversation with Mark Danner,
Michael Massing, Robert Silvers, and Steve
Wasserman (moderator), The Morrison
Lounge, Johnson Student Center,
Occidental College, 1600 Campus Road,
Los Angeles
10/23/04
Elliott Bay Book Company,
Seattle, WA
“Reporting on Iraq an d Exposing
Torture: The Failures," a conversation
with Mark Danner and Michael Massing,
Elliot Bay Book Company , 101 S. Main
Street, Seattle, WA,
10/21/04 The Open Society Institute
New York, NY
“Torture and Truth: America, Abu
Ghraib, and the War on Terror” A book
discussion with Mark Danner and Aryeh
Neier, president, the Open Society
Institute:
10/12/04 Oran Orange County Community
College,
Middletown, NY
“On the Limits of Power: Terror, Iraq,
and the American Dream” Lecture by
Mark Danner
10/10/04 Napa Napa Valley Opera House
Napa, CA
“Democracy in a Time of War: Elections
2004” Lecture by Mark Danner, Napa
Valley Arts and Lectures Series
10/07/04 Gold International Rescue Committee,
2nd
Annual San Francisco Dinner,
San Francisco, CA
“ On Power, Humanity, and Intervention:
Dreaming Iraq, Thinking Afghanistan,”
Keynote Address by Mark Danner
10/04/04 Goldman School of Journalism
University of California
Herb Caen Lecture Series
Berkeley, CA
www.markdanner.com
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“Does America Need a New President?” A
Debate between Mark Danner and William
Kristol
10/02/04 The New Yorker Festival
(telecast, C-SPAN II Book TV)
“The Future of Neo-Conservatism” A
Panel Discussion/Debate featuring Mark
Danner, Katha Pollit, David Frum, and
Ken Adelman
10/01/02 Political Thought Radio Program
with Igor Volsky, Marist College
Radio, Albany, NY
“Torture and Truth: America, Abu
Ghraib, and the War on Terror” Mark
Danner interviewed by Igor Volsky
09/21/04 Bard Program on Globalization and
International Affairs, New York
City
“Iraq and After” A Debate between Mark
Danner and Max Boot
09/13/04 C-SPAN II Book TV
Housing Works Cafe
New York, NY
Interview with Mark Danner 08/30/04 KQED Forum with Michael Krasny
Radio Program, San Francisco, CA
“The 2000 Presidential Election and Its
Aftermath,” Mark Danner in discussion
with Renata Adler and Dennis Johnson,
moderated by Danny Schechter.
08/12/04 The Thom Hartmann Radio
Program
“The Schlesinger Report: Forum discusses
US detention practices in Cuba, Iraq, and
Afghanistan” Mark Danner and Abe
Sofaer in conversation with Michael
Krasny
08/09/04 The Jeff Rense Radio Program
“The Road to Illegitimacy: Vote, Fraud
and the Coming Election,” Mark Danner
interviewed by Thom Hartmann.
08/06/04 Link TV Interview, Mosaic and
PBS
www.markdanner.com
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Interview 07/29/04 The Majority Report Radio, Air
America Network with Janeane
Garofalo and Sam Seeder
“Bush in the Middle East: A
Conversation,” Mark Danner in
conversation with David Michaelis
07/23/04
The Majority Report Radio, Air
America Network with Janeane
Garofalo and Sam Seeder
“The Press and The Democratic
Convention,” Mark Danner interviewed by
Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seeder.
07/09/04 National Public Radio, WBUR On
Point with Tom Ashbrook, Boston,
MA
“Whitewashing Torture: On Politics and
Abu Ghraib,” Mark Danner interviewed
by Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seeder.
06/23/04 KRON-TV Interview with Phil
Matier, San Francisco, CA
“The US Intelligence Failure in Iraq:
Debating the Senate Committee’s Report,”
Mark Danner in conversation with John
Fund, The Wall Street Journal, and former
CIA officer Ray McGovern.
06/21/04 KQED Forum with Michael
Krasny, San Francisco, CA
Mark Danner interviewed by reporter Phil
Matier.
06/09/04 Pacific Council on International
Policy, San Francisco, CA
“The Logic of American Torture: A
Discussion of Abu Ghraib and After,”
Mark Danner interviewed by Michael
Krasny.
06/03/04 The Century Association, New
York, NY
“A Conversation on American Policy,”
Mark Danner and Warren Christopher,
Omni Hotel.
05/27/04 University of California, KALX
Soap Box Derby with Dave
Rasmussen, Berkeley, CA
“On the Realities of Power: Iraq, Haiti and
the War on Terror.”
05/17/04 World Affairs Council of Northern
California, San Francisco, CA
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“Haiti and Regime Change: The Fall of
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,” Mark
Danner interviewed by Dave Rasmussen.
04/30/04 Travers Conference, “Media,
Democracy, and the Informed
Citizen,” Barrows Hall, Berkeley,
CA
"The Unconquerable World: Power,
Nonviolence, and the Will of the People,"
Mark Danner in conversation with
Jonathan Schell.
4/26/04 UC-Berkeley Graduate School of
Journalism, “History of
Documentary Film” Class with Jon
Else
“War and the Media,” Mark Danner in
conversation with Amy Gurowitz, Debra
Saunders, John Koopman, Federico
Rampini, and Peter Breslow.
04/25/04 LA Times Festival of Books,
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
“The Battle of Algiers” Guest Lecture by
Mark Danner
04/26/04 Council on Foreign Relations,
National Program Meeting, San
Francisco, CA
“U.S. and Iraq One Year Later: Right to
Get In? Wrong to Get Out?” Mark Danner
debates Christopher Hitchens, Michael
Ignatieff, and Robert Scheer. Moderator:
Steve Wasserman.
04/28/04 Knight Fellowships Program at
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
“The United States and Latin America:
Setting Priorities in the 21st Century,”
Mark Danner in conversation with
Kenneth Maxwell.
04/20/04 The Goldman Forum on the Press
and Foreign Affairs, UC Berkeley,
CA
“Trapped in Haitian History: The Rise,
Fall, Rise and Fall of Jean-Bertrand
Aristide.”
04/07/04 KQED Forum with Michael
Krasny, San Francisco, CA
“Our Own Worst Enemy: Seeking a Better
Way to Fight the War on Terror,” Mark
Danner in conversation with John
Arquilla, North Gate Hall Library.
04/07/04 Global Lecture Series Sonoma State
University, Sonoma, CA
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“Condoleezza Rice and the 9/11
Commission: Who’s to Blame for the
Intelligence Failure?” Mark Danner in
conversation with Abraham Sofaer and Vic
Amar.
04/05/04 The Goldman Forum on the Press
and Foreign Affairs, UC Berkeley,
CA
“The Delusions of Nation-Building: Iraq,
Haiti and American Power.”
03/18/04 The Media at War Conference,
“Understanding the U.S. Invasion
and Occupation of Iraq,” UC
Berkeley, CA
“At the Mercy of the Saudis: Bush’s Failed
Energy Policy,” Mark Danner in
conversation with David Goldwyn, North
Gate Hall Library.
03/18/04 The Media at War Conference,
“Understanding the U.S. Invasion
and Occupation of Iraq,” UC
Berkeley, CA
"Iraq, Weapons and the Responsibilities of
the Press," Mark Danner in conversation
with Michael Massing.
03/03/04 Great Decisions Series, World
Affairs Council of Northern
California, San Francisco, CA
“Reporting on the Occupation,” Mark
Danner in conversation with Elizabeth
Farnsworth, John Burns, Robert Collier,
Theola Labbe, Hania Mufti, and Ed Wong.
02/19/04 World Affairs Council of Northern
California, San Francisco, CA
"Media and Foreign Policy: Iraq, Haiti
and the American Way of War.”
02/18/04 Goldman Forum on the Press and
Foreign Affairs, UC Berkeley, CA
“The Iraq War, One Year On: Defending
Democracy or Creating Quagmire?”
02/04/04 The Goldman Forum on the Press
& Foreign Affairs, UC Berkeley,
CA
“The NY Times at War,” Mark Danner in
conversation with Gerald Marzorati, North
Gate Hall Library.
01/30/04 New School University, New York,
NY
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“The Fog of War: Vietnam, Iraq and the
Lessons of the Past,” Mark Danner in
conversation with Robert S. McNamara
and Errol Morris, Zellerbach Hall.
12/30/03 The Bardian, Bard College Alumni
Magazine
"Iraq & Beyond,” Mark Danner debates
Christopher Hitchens, Samantha Power
and David Frum.
12/26/03 The Media Education Foundation,
Documentary
“American Imperialism and Iraq,” Mark
Danner in conversation with James Chace.
12/04/03 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore,
PA
“Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear and
the Selling of American Empire,” Mark
Danner interviewed by Jeremy Earp.
11/14/03 Council on Foreign Relations, New
York, NY
“Are we Safer? Justice, Security and the
War in Iraq,” Mark Danner debates Leon
Wieseltier.
11/10/03 Bard College, Annandale On-
Hudson, NY
“Post-War Iraq: A View from the
Ground,” Mark Danner interviewed by
James F. Hoge.
11/06/03 The Goldman Forum on the Press
& Foreign Affairs UC Berkeley
Graduate School of Journalism
“Report from Baghdad,” Mark Danner
interviewed by David Gelber.
11/04/03 The Goldman Forum on the Press
& Foreign Affairs, UC Berkeley
Graduate School of Journalism
“Politics as Theatre/Theatre As Politics:
Recalls, Primaries, Terror and Other
Political Animals,” Mark Danner in
conversation with David Edgar, North
Gate Hall Library.
11/03/03 KQED Forum with Michael
Krasny, San Francisco, CA
“Has Bush Made Us Safer? Iraq, Terror
and American Power,” Mark Danner
debates Christopher Hitchens, Wheeler
Auditorium.
10/27/03 CBS Evening News with Dan
Rather
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“Travels in the Ramadan Offensive: A
Report from Iraq,” Mark Danner
interviewed by Michael Krasny.
09/30/03 Bard College, Annandale On-The
Hudson, NY
“International Red Cross Bombing: First
on the Scene,” Mark Danner interviewed
in Baghdad by Kimberly Dozier.
09/20/03 WNYC Radio’s, The Next Best
Thing, NY
“U.S. Foreign Policy Today,” A
conversation between Mark Danner and
James Chace.
09/09/03 Council on Foreign Relations,
General Meeting, New York, NY
“Battle for Algiers: Commentary on a
Contemporary Classic,” Mark Danner
interviewed by Dean Olsher.
09/04/03 The Open Society Institute, New
York
“New York Book Reception for Kenneth
Maxwell,” Mark Danner in conversation
with Kenneth Maxwell, Richard Haass,
and Fouad Ajami.
08/30/03 2003 Telluride Film Festival,
Telluride, CO
“OSI Forum: A Turning Point in Human
Rights,” El Mozote Panel, Mark Danner in
conversation with Mimi Doretti, Ann
Nelson, Maria Julia Hernandez, Susan
Mieselas, and Cluadia Hernandez.
07/18/03 KALW Working Assets Radio with
Laura Flanders, San Francisco, CA
“The Fog of War: Film, Politics and
History,” Mark Danner interviews Robert
S. McNamara with Errol Morris, Galaxy
Theatre.
07/15/03 KPFK Free Forum Radio with
Terrence McNally, Los Angeles,
CA
“The Press’ Coverage of Iraq and the
California Recall,” Mark Danner, in
conversation with Ian Williams, and John
McChesney.
06/17/03 Cody's Books, Berkeley, CA
“The Press and The Necons: How the Iraq
War Happened,” Mark Danner
interviewed by Terrence McNally.
05/15/03 Yale University, Rethinking Latin
America’s Century of Revolution,
New Haven, CT
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"The Writing Life: Writers on How they
Live and Work," Mark Danner in
conversation with Michael Chabon,
moderated by Marie Arana.
05/02/03 KALW Radio, Media Roundtable,
San Francisco, CA
“From Ordinary Men to the State’s
Executioners: Explaining Episodes of Mass
Killings in Latin America and Europe,”
Mark Danner in conversation with
Christopher Browning.
04/30/03 The Goldman Forum on the Press
& Foreign Affairs, UC Berkeley
Graduate School of Journalism
“The End of Hostilities in Iraq?” Mark
Danner in conversation with Mufid Jazairi,
and Jim Puzzenghera.
04/26/03 LA Times Festival of Books,
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
“Weapons of Mass Destruction in an Age
of Terror: Living in the Second Nuclear
Age,” Mark Danner in conversation with
Frances Fitzgerald, Michael Nacht, and
Jonathan Schell, Sibley Auditorium.
04/26/03 LA Times Festival of Books,
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
“American Power and The War in Iraq,”
Mark Danner debates Christopher
Hitchens, Samantha Power and Bob
Scheer.
04/14/03 The Goldman Forum on the Press
& Foreign Affairs, UC Berkeley
Graduate School of Journalism
“How We Fight Now: The American Way
of War,” Mark Danner in conversation
with Jonathan Schell.
03/17/03 The Goldman Forum on the Press
& Foreign Affairs, UC Berkeley
Graduate School of Journalism
“Spoils of War? Deciding the Future of
Iraqi Oil,” Mark Danner in conversation
with David Goldwyn, North Gate Library.
03/15/03 The Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, CA (C-
Span)
“War, The Press & U.S. Power: Diplomacy
& Conflict in the Post 9/11 World,” Mark
Danner in conversation with Strobe Talbot
and Peter Tarnoff, Sibley Auditorium.
03/11/03 Council on Foreign Relations, San Francisco, CA
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“American Power and The Crisis Over
Iraq,” Mark Danner debates Christopher
Hitchens, Michael Ignatieff, and Robert
Scheer.
03/05/03 Swarthmore College, War on Iraq Debate,
Swarthmore, PA and on CBS News Sunday
Morning
“Iraq and the War on Terrorism,” Mark
Danner in conversation with Max Boot.
02/28/03 Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, Public Broadcasting
System, San Jose, CA
“How Should We Use Our Power: Iraq
and the War on Terror,” Mark Danner
debates Leon Wieseltier.
02/20/03 The Goldman Forum on the Press
& Foreign Affairs, UC Berkeley
Graduate School of Journalism
“Empire State Building: Is America
Becoming an Empire?” Mark Danner
debates Niall Ferguson.
02/20/03 PBS Frontline Documentary
“The New York Times Goes to War:
Terror, Truth and the American Way of
War,” Mark Danner in conversation with
Gerald Marzorati, North Gate Hall
Library.
02/12/03 The World Affairs Council, San
Francisco, CA
“The War Behind Closed Doors.”
02/06/03 The Goldman Forum on the Press
& Foreign Affairs, UC Berkeley
Graduate School of Journalism
“The Future of American Policy in Iraq,
The Middle East and The Persian Gulf,”
Mark Danner in conversation with William
Burns, Asst. Sec of State for Near Eastern
Affairs.
01/28/03 The Goldman Forum on the Press
& Foreign Affairs, UC Berkeley
Graduate School of Journalism
“Why We Can’t Win the War on Terror
(…and how we might still avoid loosing),”
01/28/03 KQED Radio Forum with Michael
Krasny, San Francisco, CA
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Mark Danner in conversation with John
Arquilla, North Gate Hall Library.
“How Should We Use our Power? Iraq
and the War on Terror,” Mark Danner
debates Christopher Hitchens, Zellerbach
Hall.
01/24/03 KALW Working Assets Radio with
Laura Flanders, San Francisco, CA
“Debating the Iraq War,” Mark Danner
and Christopher Hitchens interviewed by
Michael Krasny.
01/24/03 World Link TV Forum with Holly
Kernan, San Francisco, CA
“The Press and The Coming of the Iraq
War,” Mark Danner in conversation with
Mark Hertsgaard and Patrick Jarreau.
12/06/02 The Institute of Humanities, New
York University, NY
“America Alone? An Encounter Between
Americans and the World,” Mark Danner
in conversation with Ken Jowitt, Shafeeq
Ghabar and Reinhardt Schiekler.
11/21/02 The World Policy Institute and The New
School University, Swayduck Auditorium,
New York, NY
“The Two Strategists: Bush, Bin Laden
and the Coming Iraq War.”
11/18/02 The Goldman Forum on the Press
& Foreign Affairs, UC Berkeley
Graduate School of Journalism
“The American Empire: Can it Endure?”
Mark Danner debates David Fromkin and
James Chase.
11/18/02 KQED Radio Forum with Angie
Coiro, San Francisco, CA
“Setting the Agenda? The New York Times
and America’s View of the World,” Mark
Danner in conversation with Arthur
Sulzberger Jr. and Howell Raines of the
New York Times, Zellerbach Hall.
10/25/02 The Goldman Forum on the Press
& Foreign Affairs, UC Berkeley
Graduate School of Journalism
“Propaganda Radio in The Middle East,”
Mark Danner in conversation with
Norman Pattiz and Don Jensen.
10/18/02 KQED Radio Forum with Angie
Coiro, San Francisco, CA
"War: What Is It Good For? Conflict, 06/26/02 World Affairs Council of Northern
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Human Rights and the Uses of Suffering,"
Mark Danner in conversation with Chris
Hedges, David Rieff and Rone Tempest,
North Gate Hall Library.
California, San Francisco, CA
"How We Talk About Terror," Mark
Danner interviewed by Angie Coiro.
04/28/02 LA Times Festival of Books,
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
“Covering the War: How Free is our
Press?” Mark Danner in conversation with
Reese Erlich, Mary Jo McConahay, and
Norman Soloman.
04/28/02 LA Times Festival of Books,
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
“Thinking Local, Writing Global,” Mark
Danner in conversation with Alex
Cockburn, Hamilton Fish and Samantha
Power.
03/05/02 KQED Radio Forum with Michael
Krasny, San Francisco, CA
“The Story Behind the Stories: Mayhem,
Drugs and Atrocities,” Mark Danner in
conversation with Mark Cooper, Mark
Bowden, and Edward Humes.
02/25/02 UC Berkeley’s International and
Area Studies Department, Berkeley,
CA
“Afghanistan and The War on Terror,”
Mark Danner, Tom Lantos, Marshall
Windmiller and Abraham Sofaer
interviewed by Michael Krasny.
11/9/01 Boston University and the Carnegie
Council on Ethics and International
Affairs, Pardee Center, Boston
University, MA
“The New American Empire: US Foreign
Policy after 9/11,” Mark Danner in
conversation with Harry Kreisler.
10/18/01 The Russian-American Center
Conference, University of
California at Berkeley, CA
“Changing and Unchanging Values in the
World of the Future: Does Pericles Point
the Way?” Mark Danner in conversation
with Roger Kimball and Ralph Buultjens,
09/24/01 KQED Forum with Michael
Krasny, San Francisco, CA
"The Battlefield in the American Mind," A
talk given by Mark Danner, Little House.
09/17/01 KQED Forum with Michael
Krasny, San Francisco, CA
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Military Response to Terror 09/12/01 University of California at
Berkeley, North Gate Hall Library
“Terrorism: Where To Now?” Mark
Danner interviewed by Michael Krasny.
08/31/01 2001 Telluride Film Festival,
Telluride, CO
“Making Sense of the Incomprehensible:
The Terrorist Attacks on New York and
Washington,” Mark Danner in discussion
with David Rieff, Peter Tarnoff, Orville
Schell, and others.
04/28/01 LA Times Festival of Books,
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
“‘No Man’s Land’: Filming the Bosnia
War,” Mark Danner in conversation with
director Danis Tanovic.
03/08/01 University of California at
Berkeley, North Gate Hall Library
“Reporting Wars: The Moral Dimension,”
Mark Danner in conversation with Ron
Haviv, David Rieff, Tim Judah and
Siobhan Darrow.
12/01/00 Colombia-U.S. Relations: The War
on Drugs, The Peace Process and
Prospects for Human Rights, Yale
Law School, New Haven, CT
“Election 2000: A View of the Deadlock,”
Mark Danner in conversation with E.J.
Dionne.
06/14/00 The John Adams Institute in
cooperation with The Atlantic
Association, American Focus
Lecture Series, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
“Colombia’s Importance for Latin
America,” A talk given by Mark Danner.
04/19/00 The Human Rights Center,
Townsend Center and the
University of California at Berkeley
“A Helpless Giant! America and the Post-
Cold War World,” A lecture given by
Mark Danner.
02/28/00 The University of Montana,
Missoula, MT
“Human Rights in Political Transitions:
Gettysburg to Bosnia,” lecture by Mark
Danner
02/28/00 The University of Montana,
Department of Journalism,
Missoula, MT
"From Kosovo to Kashmir: What Does
Post-Cold War America Owe The World?”
A Chancellor’s lecture given by Mark
02/17/00 University of California at
Berkeley, CA
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Danner.
"Writing About A Dangerous World:
America After The Cold War," A seminar
led by Mark Danner.
11/03/99 Medal of Honor Conference,
University of California at
Riverside
"Documenting War: Field Methods in
Historical Context," Mark Danner talks to
Harvey Weinstein's and Eric Stover's class,
Stephens Hall.
11/04/99 University of California at
Berkeley, CA
“War, Combat and Heroism: The Medal of
Honor,” Mark Danner in conversation
with Tim O’Brien, Robert Bush, Walter
Ealers, Paul Fussell, Lewis Millet, Joe
Rodriguez, and Bruce Cumings.
09/21/99 Claremont McKenna College,
Claremont, CA
“Human Rights in the Field: From Theory
to Practice,” An introduction given by
Mark Danner, Faculty Club.
09/20/99 Claremont McKenna College,
Claremont, CA
“Leadership in Politics and Diplomacy:
The Crisis in Kosovo,” Mark Danner
speaks in the Ethnic Conflict in Modern
World Series, at the Athenaeum.
09/20/99 Claremont McKenna College,
Claremont, CA
“El Mozote,” Mark Danner talks to
literature students from Claremont
McKenna College, Parents Library.
June/July
1999
The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour,
Public Broadcasting System
“The Future of World Politics,” Mark
Danner talks to Edward Haley’s class.
05/05/99 The World Affairs Council of
Northern California, San Francisco,
CA
“The Genius Awards,” Mark Danner
interviewed on The MacNeil/Lehrer News
Hour.
05/03/99 Institute of International Studies,
University of California at
Berkeley, CA
“War and Genocide in Kosovo: A Look at
the Present Conflict.”
04/28/99 University of California at
Berkeley, North Gate Hall Library
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“Conversations with History: Foreign
Policy Debate,” Mark Danner interviewed
by Harry Kreisler.
04/14/99 The Center for Latin American
Studies, University of California at
Berkeley
“Editing the New York Review of Books: A
Conversation with Robert B. Silvers,”
Mark Danner in conversation with Robert
Silvers.
03/05/99 Zellerbach Hall, University of
California at Berkeley
"Haiti's Twin Legacies: Duvalier and
Aristide," A talk given by Mark Danner.
03/03/99 Institute of International Studies,
University of California at
Berkeley, CA
“PEONY PAVILION,” A Pre-Performance
Talk with Peter Sellars.
May/June
1998
The TK Lecture, Portland, OR
“Conversations with History: Being A
Writer,” Mark Danner interviewed by
Harry Kreisler.
04/08/98 WBNI Public Radio, Ft. Wayne, IA
“Betrayal in the 20th
Century.” 04/12/98 Ft. Wayne Cinema Center,
Ft.Wayne, Indiana
“Welcome to Sarajevo: On Film and
Foreign Reporting,” Mark Danner with
Catherine Lee.
12/01/97 Council on Foreign Relations, New
York, NY
“Welcome to Sarajevo: On Filming—And
Reporting--The Balkan Civil War,” A talk
given by Mark Danner
05/22/97 The Overseas Press Club of
America, New York, NY
“The Outlook for NATO Enlargement:
The Debate in the U.S. Senate,” Mark
Danner in conversation with Joseph R.
Biden, Jr. and William H. Luers.
04/16/95 Ft. Wayne Cinema Center, Ft.
Wayne, Indiana
“Debate on NATO Expansion,” Mark
Danner debates Richard Perle, moderated
by Jacqueline Albert-Simon, at the
02/24/95 Human Rights Resource Center,
Newman Center, Minneapolis, MN
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Princeton Club.
“Death and the Maiden: Latin America,
Torture, and the Recreation of Justice,” A
talk given by Mark Danner.
02/24/95 University of Minnesota School of
Law, Minneapolis, MN
“Haiti and El Salvador and the Role of the
U.S. Media,” A lecture given by Mark
Danner.
02/23/95 Iowa City Foreign Relations
Council, Iowa City, Iowa
“America and the Post Cold War World:
The Future of Our Foreign Policy,” A
lecture given by Mark Danner.
02/23/95 University of Iowa School of
Journalism, Iowa City, Iowa
“Navigating the Post Cold War World:
How to Rebuild U.S. Foreign Policy,” A
lecture given by Mark Danner.
02/23/95 WSUI Prairie Lights Radio with
Julie Englander, University of
Iowa,
“On Covering Wars: Central America,
Haiti and The Balkans,” A talk given by
Mark Danner.
02/08/95 Common Ground Radio with Mary
Gary Davidson
“Massacre At El Mozote: The Roots of
Atrocity,” Mark Danner interviewed by
Julie Englander.
11/27/94 The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour,
Public Broadcasting System
“Haiti’s Challenge,” Mark Danner
interviewed by Mary Gary Davidson.
09/19/94 National Public Radio, WHYY
Fresh Air with Terry Gross,
Philadelphia, PA
“Occupying Haiti: A Report from the
Scene,” Mark Danner interviewed by
Charlayne Hunter-Gault.
07/27/94 Peter Jennings Reporting, ABC
News Special, Documentary
“US Troops Occupy Haiti: A Report from
Port-au-Prince,” Mark Danner interviewed
by Terry Gross.
05/28/94 America and The World, National
Public Radio with Richard Hottelet
“House on Fire: America’s Haitian Crisis,”
Mark Danner, writer and co-producer.
05/27/94 WIBX, At Your Service Radio,
Utica, NY
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“America and The World: Elections in El
Salvador,” Mark Danner in conversation
with Alvaro De Soto.
05/21/94 KGNU, Latin American News
Radio, Boulder, CO
“The Massacre At El Mozote,” Mark
Danner interviewed on At Your Service
Radio.
05/20/94 Focus 580 Radio, Ottawa, Canada
“The Massacre At El Mozote,” Mark
Danner interviewed.
05/19/94 KEXP, Mind Over Matters Radio,
Tacoma, Olympia
“The Massacre At El Mozote,” Mark
Danner interviewed.
05/11/94 WFMT, The Studs Terkel Program
with Studs Terkel, Chicago, IL
“The Massacre At El Mozote,” Mark
Danner interviewed.
05/11/94 WBEZ, Midday Radio Program,
Chicago, IL
“The Massacre At El Mozote,” Mark
Danner interviewed by Studs Terkel.
05/10/94 WORT, 89.9 FM Radio, Madison,
WI
“The Massacre At El Mozote,” Mark
Danner interviewed.
05/10/94 Second Opinion Radio with Erwin
Knoll, editor of The Progressive
“The Massacre At El Mozote,” Mark
Danner interviewed.
05/06/94 The Capital Times, Madison, WI
“The Massacre At El Mozote and US
Policy in Central America,” Mark Danner
interviewed by Erwin Knoll.
05/05/94 WSUI, Public Radio with Julie
Englander, from the University of
Iowa
“Cutting Through the Fabrics of Lies: On
El Mozote,” Mark Danner interviewed by
John Nichols.
05/04/94 The Charlie Rose Show, Public
Broadcasting System, New York
“The Massacre At El Mozote,” Mark
Danner interviewed.
05/01/94 The Book Channel, with Marc
Strassman, Random House, Santa
Monica, CA
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“Turmoil in Haiti,” Mark Danner in
conversation with Jocelyn McCalla,
Thomas Carothers and Charles
Kernaghan.
03/30/94 Peter Jennings Reporting, ABC
News Special, Documentary
“The Massacre At El Mozote,” Mark
Danner interviewed by Marc Strassman.
03/21/94 KGNU, Latin American News
Radio, Boulder, CO
“While America Watched: The Bosnia
Tragedy,” Mark Danner, writer and co-
producer.
12/03/93 America and the World with
Richard Hottelet, National Public
Radio
“The Massacre At El Mozote,” Mark
Danner interviewed.
12/01/93 Cable News Network Interview
“Haiti, Its Military Dictators, and The
Hope of Democracy,” Mark Danner
interviewed by Richard Hottelet.
12/01/93 Council on Foreign Relations, New
York, NY
“Central America, The US and Clinton’s
Trade Initiative,” Mark Danner in
conversation with President Bill Clinton,
Rep. Robert Torricelli, Former President
Jimmy Carter, and Bernard Aronson.
11/28/93 Prime News with Bruce Morton,
CNN Television
“The Haiti Stalemate: How it Happened
and What Can We Do?”
11/05/93 ABC World News Now
“The Massacre at El Mozote: Looking
Back at A War Crime,” Mark Danner
interviewed by Bruce Morton.
05/1992 Bertlesmann Founation, The
Council on Foreign Relations,
Bonn, Germany
“The Massacre at El Mozote: The Meaning
of Uncovered History,” Mark Danner
interviewed by Thalia Assuras.
05/22/86 The Morning, C-Span
“Confronting the Paradigm in Shift,” The
Transatlantic Relationship, Mark Danner
speaks to the Bertlesmann Foundation and
02/1986 The Harvard Club, New York, NY
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the Council on Foreign Relations.
“Haiti and The Legacy of Duvalier: A
Transition to Democracy?” Mark Danner
interviewed by Carl Rutan.
12/1985 The University Club, New York
City, NY
“How Not to Fix the Schools,” Mark
Danner moderates Harper’s Forum ant the
Harvard Club.
06/25/85 The Morning Show, C-Span
“In An Age of Cocaine,” Mark Danner
moderates Harper’s Forum at the
University Club.
“Nuclear Weapons, Arms Control and US
Policy,” Mark Danner interviewed by
Susan Swain.