RIAS alumni from Minneapolis, POLITICO’s Karnitschnig at this week’s RIAS Zoom Talks
Two RIAS Berlin Commission alumni from Minnesota will take part in RIAS special zoom talks added to this week’s schedule to talk about the violent protests that have erupted in Minneapolis in the last week and answer questions from other RIAS alumni, candidates and board members.
These talks will include ample opportunities for Q&A. The conversations held on Zoom are generally on-the-record unless otherwise stated. The hope is that these sessions might help inspire ideas for stories, for thinking differently about some issues, for learning more about German and American issues, and above all connect you more closely to the RIAS network.
Please write to info@darkseagreen-dog-940501.hostingersite.com for log-on details for the Zoom meetings. Here is more information about the three guest speakers for the three meetings this week on Tuesday and Wednesday:
Nicholas Scheffler, a University of Minnesota student studying journalism and German (pictured above left), will take part in the first RIAS zoom talk at 1700 CET (11 am. EST) on Tuesday, June 2.
Scott Libin, a senior fellow at Hubbard School of Journalism at the University of Minnesota (pictured below), will lead a Zoom talk on Wednesday, June 3 at 1800 CET (12 noon EST).
Libin was a RIAS fellow in June of 2018 in Germany, Prague and Brussels and has also served as chairman of the RTDNA while Scheffler, who graduates in 2020, was a RIAS fellow on the summer exchange program for students in 2019 and visited Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig and Cologne. Scheffler wrote a column about the police tension in Minneapolis for the University of Minnesota student newspaper, the Minnesota Daily.
As previously announced, POLITICO’s Chief European Correspondent Matthew Karnitschnig will speak on a RIAS Zoom talk on Wednesday at 1700 CET (11 a.m. EST). Karnitschnig, who is from New Mexico with Austrian roots and has lived in Germany for many years, is a member of the RIAS Berlin Commission Board. He has written a number of insightful stories on Germany’s response to Covid-19, including this story that attributed the country’s success in coming through the crisis relatively unscathed in part to “dumb luck”.
