Coffman Theater
“High Value Lies: Ethics and Undercover Investigations in the Contemporary News Environment”
Past Events
Cowles Auditorium
The 39th Annual Silha Lecture: The Free Speech Recession and How to Reverse It: Five Lessons from History
130 Murphy Hall
Balanced Reporting in Divisive Times: "Setting Fire to Reason"
The 38th Annual Silha Lecture, “The Defamation Machine”
Knight Foundation Offices
Silha Center Director and Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law Jane Kirtley to Participate in "Free Speech at the Crossroads: A Minnesota Dialogue"
Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center
37th Annual Silha Lecture: "Inherit the WHAT? Banning Books in 2022"
Online
One in Four: The Ethics of Covering People with Disabilities
Online
36th Annual Silha Lecture: The First Amendment and Diversity: A Marketplace Failure
Online
Retrospective: First Amendment rights and the U.S. Capitol Insurrection
Online
2020 Silha Lecture: Inconvenient Truths and Tiger Kings
Online
2020 Special Webinar: Covering Protests: First Amendment Protections and Responsibilities Afforded Journalists
Online
2020 Silha Center Spring Forum/SPJ Ethics Event: "What the Fact?"
Cowles Auditorium, West Bank Campus
2019 Silha Lecture: "In Defense of Public Trials: Access to Court Proceedings in the Internet Age"
Northrop Mall
2019 Special Event: Minnesota Daily First Amendment Celebration
2019 Silha Center Spring Forum: "Free Press - Fair Trial: The Ethics of Writing Wrongs"
2018 Silha Lecture: "The First Amendment and #MeToo"
2018 Spring Symposium: "The State of our Satirical Union"
2017 Silha Lecture: "Making Media Law Great Again: The First Amendment in the Time of Trump"
2017 Spring Forum: "Making News or Faking News? Ethical Journalism in a Post-Truth Era"
2017 Special Event: Free Speech vs. Free Space
2016 Silha Lecture: "The Politics and Law of the Culture Wars..."
2015 Silha Lecture : "Clear and Present Danger..."
2015 Special Event: Can One Laugh at Everything: Satire and Free Speech After Charlie
2014 Silha Lecture: "See No Evil: Why We Need a New Approach to Government Transparency"
2014 Symposium: "How Far from Near? 50 Years of New York Times v. Sullivan in Minnesota and Beyond"
2013 Silha Lecture: "The Lessons of the Pentagon Papers: Has Obama Learned Them?"
2013 Silha Center Spring Forum
2013 Silha Center Spring Forum: Digital Evidence: Privacy, Acquisition, Proof
2012 Silha Lecture: A Question of Taste: The Ethics and Craft of Restaurant Reviewing
2012 Spring Forum: Focusing on the Ethics of Cameras in the Courtroom
2012 Spring Forum: A Virtual Bill of Rights: Does the Constitution Protect Virtual Speech and Conduct?
2011 Silha Lecture: Free Speech and the Digital Challenge Around the Globe: A Conversation with Mark Stephens
2011 Silha Center Spring Forum: Justice Brennan: Champion of the Free Press
2011 Silha Center Spring Ethics Forum
2010 Silha Lecture: "Not Child's Play: The Misguided Effort to Regulate Violent Video Games"
2010 Co-Sponsored Event: Power and the Press
2010 Spring Ethics Forum: The Propaganda State: The Inordinate Influence of PR on the Press
2010 Special Presentation: Journalist Impairment: Identifying and Managing the Emotional Demands of Life in Journalism
2010 Spring Forum: Criminal Conduct in the Virtual World: Of Avatars and Evidence
2010 Special Event: The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again
2009 Silha Lecture: Unspoken Realities about Investigative Journalism and the Law
2009 SPJ Town Hall Meeting: Fever Pitch: Does Health News Reporting Leave Consumers Out in the Cold?
2009 Spring Forum: Surveillance, Anonymity, and Privacy: Law Enforcement on Your Computer
2008 Special Event: The Curious Love-Hate Relationship Between Media Law and Media Ethics
2008 Fall Forum: The FCC's New Media Ownership Rules: Emotions and Reason in Rulemaking
2008 Silha Lecture: "Raise Your Hand if You're a Journalist: Does Responsible Reporting Need a Legal Defense?"
2008 Special Event: Chicago 10
2008 Co-Sponsored Forum: "Your Credentials, Please: The Media and Law Enforcement at the RNC"
2008 Special Event: Cogi-tations: A Program of the Minnesota Coalition on Government Information
2008 Silha Spring Ethics Forum: Journalism from the Frontlines: Remaining Independent When Covering Politics and War
2008 Spring Forum: New Media, New Standards? Ethics in Online Journalism
2007 Silha Lecture: The Kids Are All Right: Violent Media, Free Expression, and the Drive to Regulate
2007 Spring Forum: When Tragedy Strikes, What is the Media's Role?
2007 Special Event: Digital Privacy is not Anonymity: You Can't Hide from the Data on Your Computer
2007 Special Event: Without Fear or Favor: Objectivity Revisited
2006 Special Event: Judges in J-Schools
2006 Silha Lecture: "The Freedom of the Press v. The National Security"
2006 Spring Forum: The Customer is Always Right? The Assault on Media Impartiality from the Empowered American Consumer
2006 Special Event: Your Email is Not Yours: Government Surveillance and Digital Privacy
2006 Spring Forum on Truth-Telling in Campaign Advertisements
2006 Special Event: The End of Journalism? Why News Still Matters
2005 Silha Lecture: Confidential Sources of Journalists: Protection or Prohibition?
2004 Silha Lecture: High Hopes and Dire Warnings: In Search of a Credo for Today’s Journalist