EVERYBODY KNOWS:
CORRUPTION IN AMERICA
SARAH CHAYES IN CONVERSATION
WITH SUSAN FORDE
Sat, 31 Oct 2020, 10 AM (AEST): Livestream
2nd – 4th Nov: On Demand
“It’s one thing to cop to the abstract idea that America is dominated by the same type of networks that run notoriously corrupt developing countries. But it was painful to roll up my sleeves and grapple with that reality.”
ABOUT
When corruption takes hold, the results are devastating: from social upheaval, terror and extremism to repeated banking and stock market meltdowns, unemployment and environmental devastation.
After more than a decade analysing corruption in the developing world, Sarah Chayes turned her lens on her own country: The United States of America.
She discovered that the same models of corruption fit too closely for comfort.
Vested interests have bent government powers to serve themselves, not the citizens, with dizzying results – egregious Supreme Court rulings, revolving doors and cozy deals between the state and the private sector, and forty years of financial meltdowns.
Corruption today, far from just acts committed by disreputable individuals to line their pockets, is the standard mode of operation for sophisticated networks crossing political, ideological and national boundaries. Even the Trump administration’s venality is more a symptom of a widespread trend than an aberration.
Returning Integrity 20 speaker, Sarah Chayes, is an international expert on corruption and its causes. She is author of the prize-winning Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security and the recently released On Corruption in America and What is at Stake.
Sarah will be in conversation with Professor Susan Forde, director of the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research and chair of Integrity 20.
Sarah Chayes’s new book, On Corruption in America and What is at Stake, is available for purchase when you register to attend the event.
WHEN & WHERE?
This event will be broadcast live online at 10am (AEST) on Saturday 31 October, and available on demand from 2nd until 4 November.
You must be a registered to access both the livestream event and on-demand recording.
Details for accessing this livestream event will be provided prior to the event.
HOW MUCH?
This is a FREE online event.
On Corruption in America and What is at Stake (hard copy) is available to purchase for $55 through our online bookseller – Avid Reader – as part of the registration process.
Speakers
Sarah Chayes
United States
Sarah Chayes lived in Afghanistan for a decade and served as special assistant to the US chief of defense, Admiral Mike Mullen. For five years she researched corruption networks across the world at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her book Thieves of State won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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Susan Forde (host)
Australia
Susan Forde is professor of journalism at Griffith University, Brisbane. She is director of the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research. She has authored or co-authored three books and more than 50 journal articles and book chapters on media and journalism. Susan is currently chair of Griffith University’s premiere public forum, Integrity 20, and is on the Editorial Board of The Conversation and the Advisory Committee for the literary journal, Griffith Review. She worked as a journalist in both mainstream and alternative/community media sectors before joining academia.
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