Calendar

Upcoming North American Events

  • Thursday Mar 4 2010

    Exhibition and Fundraiser: Haiti

    6:30 PM

    At VII Dumbo in New York City, an exhbition of Ron Haviv's photographs of post-earthquake Haiti and fundraiser for Partners in Health.

    The exhibition will feature intimate reportage from Ron Haviv, who was in Haiti less than 24 hours after the earthquake devastated Port au Prince and surrounding areas.

    For more information, see the VII agency website.

    Details

    VII Dumbo
    28 Jay Street
    Brooklyn NY 11201

    March 4 to March 26, 2010
    Gallery hours 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday

    Public Reception and Fundraiser:
    Thursday, March 4, 2010
    6:30 to 9:00 pm

  • Friday Mar 5 2010

    Brownbag Lunch: Reporting on Sexual Assault on College Campuses

    12:00 PM

    At Columbia University in New York City, a briefing by Kristen Lombardi of the Center for Public Integrity on her  investigative series.

    Lombardi will offer a behind-the-scenes look at her team's groundbreaking series "Sexual Assault on Campus: A Frustrating Search for Justice." Their investigation uncovered a disturbing culture of silence surrounding rape among students and institutional barriers to those victims who seek justice.

    Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
    The Stabile Student Center
    116th Street and Broadway
    New York, NY

  • Saturday Mar 13 2010

    Symposium: Between Hope & History: When Disaster Strikes

    11:00 AM

    At New York University in New York City, a day-long symposium featuring panels and a keynote speech reflecting on recent and continuing calamities, both man-made and natural.

    The symposium, co-sponsored by the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, will feature conversations between over a dozen journalists, writers, thinkers, and activists who have faced disaster.

    For a complete list of panelists and sessions, go to the official website.

  • Thursday Mar 18 2010

    Seminar: Documenting Memories of Catastrophe

    3:00 PM

    At Columbia University in New York City, a seminar about using oral history to cover disaster, part of an ongoing series of public workshops on oral history methodologies.

    This seminar will feature Mary Marshall Clark, Director of the Columbia University Oral History Research Office and founder of the September 11, 2001 Oral History Narrative and Memory Project.

    For more information, go to the official website.

  • Sunday Mar 21 2010

    Forum: Truth Commission on Conscience in War

    4:00 PM

    At Riverside Church in New York City, community and religious leaders, advocacy groups and artists, will receive testimony from veterans and experts about moral and religious criteria of just war.

    Expert witnesses in addition to veterans will discuss moral questions facing soldiers both before and during combat, international agreements governing the justification and conduct of war, and limits of military regulations of conscientious objection.

    For more information, see the Truth Commission on Conscience in War website.

    Truth Commission on Conscience in War
    490 Riverside Drive
    New York, NY
    Sunday, March 21, 2010
    4:00 pm