Speaker
Rund Abdelfatah
Host & Producer of "Throughline" from NPR
Rund Abdelfatah is the co-host and producer of “Throughline,” a podcast that explores the history of current events. In that role, she’s responsible for all aspects of the podcast’s production, including development of episode concepts, interviewing guests, and sound design. Abdelfatah joined NPR in 2014 as an intern and went on to become a producer on a number of NPR’s most popular podcasts, including “How I Built This,” “TED Radio Hour,” “NPR Politics,” “Code Switch,” and “Pop Culture Happy Hour.” The concept for “Throughline,” launched in February 2019, was developed by Abdelfatah and her co-host, Ramtin Arablouei. Abdelfatah got her start in journalism covering local and domestic politics at the Washington bureau of the BBC. She earned her bachelor’s degree in anthropology, with a minor in Spanish, from Princeton University.
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Public History Project Reception
After day one of the Diversity Forum concludes, a limited number of attendees will have the opportunity to attend a special reception for the UW–Madison Public History Project’s public exhibit: Sifting & Reckoning: UW–Madison’s History of Exclusion and Resistance.
You must have pre-registered to attend this reception because space is limited. The free reception will be from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Chazen Museum (750 University Ave.). Food and beverages will be provided. Transportation will be available between Union South and the Chazen Museum. Please email events@cdo.wisc.edu with any questions or accommodation requests for this special event.
The Sifting & Reckoning exhibit takes a thematic approach to UW–Madison’s history, allowing visitors to see the multifaceted ways that racism and exclusion permeated campus life, and how the community responded, organized and resisted. Visitors can engage with objects from the UW Archives that are rarely displayed and oral-history interviews with people who fought exclusion on campus, allowing visitors a vivid, intimate account of the university’s history.
Discussion with ‘Throughline’ Podcast Co-Creators
During the reception, the Public History Project will host a special conversation from 5 to 6 p.m. with the co-hosts of NPR’s popular “Throughline” podcast: Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei as part of their campus visit as UW’s Journalists in Residence. Kacie Lucchini Butcher, the director of UW’s Public History Project, will join them in the conversation about how we understand and tell our shared history and what we can learn about ourselves and our futures from looking at our past. Professor Christy Clark-Pujara will moderate the panel discussion.