Events
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Jun 21
June 21, 2017
8:15 a.m.–1:45 p.m. (EDT)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkBuilding a New Legal Infrastructure Toward Confronting Hate Incidents in the United States
The Open Society Foundations welcome the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law for a conversation about their work responding to the rise in hate incidents in the United States that began in late 2016.
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Jun 8
June 8, 2017
2:30–8:00 p.m. (EDT)
University of Baltimore Law School’s Moot Court Room, 1401 N Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21217Talking About Race: Harm Reduction and Communities of Color
A discussion on the historical tensions between drug policy advocates and communities of color, which have carried the heaviest burden in both health consequences and punitive criminal justice responses to drug use.
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Jun 1
June 1, 2017
9:15 a.m.–4:45 p.m. (EDT)
Open Society Foundations–Washington, D.C.
WashingtonGrand Corruption Without Borders: U.S. Commitment to Responsible Assets Repatriation
Two panels of experts discuss how repatriation of stolen assets to states ruled by authoritarian and kleptocratic regimes is problematic.
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Jun 1
June 1, 2017
5:00 a.m.–5:45 p.m. (EDT)
Webcast onlyBrussels Economic Forum 2017
Open Society Foundations founder and chairman George Soros gives the keynote speech at the flagship annual economic event of the European Commission.
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May 22
May 22, 2017
2:00–8:00 p.m. (EDT)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkBook Launch—Everyday Africa: 30 Photographers Re-Picturing a Continent
Everyday Africa features photos that find beauty in ordinary life in Africa—and shift perceptions from sensationalized extremes to a more textured reality.
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May 18
May 18, 2017
2:00–8:00 p.m. (EDT)
Maryland Art Place, 218 W Saratoga Street, Baltimore, MD 21201Addiction Now: Safe Injection Facilities as a Public Health Strategy
Join Open Society Institute–Baltimore and the New Day Campaign to discuss how safe injection facilities reduce overdoses and increase access to treatment.
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May 8
May 8, 2017
8:15 a.m.–1:45 p.m. (EDT)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkLocking Up Our Own: James Forman Jr. in Conversation with Khalil Gibran Muhammad
A lunchtime conversation about James Foreman Jr.’s acclaimed new book on race and criminal justice, which traces the zero-tolerance approach to crime and drugs back to some unlikely origins.
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Apr 27
April 27, 2017
2:00–7:30 p.m. (EDT)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkImpacts of Strategic Litigation on Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights
A conversation launches an Open Society Justice Initiative report that draws on interviews with community members, litigators, and activists from Kenya, Malaysia, and Paraguay.
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Apr 27
April 27, 2017
11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. (EDT)
Open Society Foundations–Washington, D.C.
WashingtonThe Disappearing Trial: What’s Justice in a World with More Guilty Pleas?
Fair Trials launches The Disappearing Trial—a new report examining the global spread of trial waiver systems.
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Apr 18
April 18, 2017
3:00–8:30 p.m. (EDT)
BRIC Studios, 647 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY 11217Decarcerated: What Justice Looks Like
A live town hall event examining the experience of being incarcerated in America, and its impact on the criminal justice reform movement.
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Apr 17
April 17, 2017
3:00–9:00 p.m. (EDT)
University of Baltimore’s Moot Court Room, 1401 N Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21217Talking About Race—Rethinking Crime and Punishment in Black America: A Conversation with James Forman Jr.
Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman Jr. talks about his new book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America.
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Apr 11
April 11, 2017
5:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. (EDT)
Tumblr, 35 E. 21st Street, New York, NY 10010Accounting for Violence: How to Increase Safety and Reduce Our Failed Reliance on Mass Incarceration
A forum of leaders in criminal justice discuss strategies to reduce both violence and mass incarceration.
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