Events
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Apr 17
April 17, 2013
8:15 a.m.–1:30 p.m. (EDT)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkThe Global Sexuality Frontier
Open Society Fellow Mark Gevisser reports on his research into the global revolution of ideas that is changing how people think about gender identity and sexual orientation.
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Apr 8
April 8, 2013
8:15 a.m.–1:30 p.m. (EDT)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkLitigating Surveillance in American Courts
Open Society Fellow Jameel Jaffer discusses the US government’s broad and largely secret campaign of surveillance in the name of national security.
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Mar 28
March 28, 2013
8:15 a.m.–1:30 p.m. (EDT)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkLitigating the Drone Program in American Courts
Open Society Fellow Jameel Jaffer discusses legal challenges to the US government's drone program and its refusal to release more information about it.
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Mar 22
March 22, 2013
8:15 a.m.–2:15 p.m. (EDT)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkThe Promise and Reality of the Kenyan Elections
Open Society Fellow Ben Rawlence tells the inside story of the disputed Kenyan elections of March 2013.
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Mar 18
March 18, 2013
8:15 a.m.–1:30 p.m. (EDT)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkA Photographic Look at Access to Justice in Pakistan
Open Society Fellow Asim Rafiqui shares insights gleaned from his photographic exploration of police reform and access to justice in Pakistan.
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Feb 6
February 6, 2013
7:15 a.m.–1:15 p.m. (EST)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkThe Case for Equal Education in South Africa
Dmitri Holtzman, Executive Director of the Equal Education Law Center, discusses the recent short-lived victory over minimum norms and standards for infrastructure at state schools in South Africa.
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Dec 7
December 7, 2012
6:45 a.m.–1:45 p.m. (EST)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkPoverty and Development in Rural India
Pioneering journalist P. Sainath looks at the worsening crisis among India’s rural poor and offers some provocative solutions.
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Dec 5
December 5, 2012
12:00–8:00 p.m. (EST)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkFilm Screening: How To Survive a Plague
Faced with their own mortality an improbable group of young people, many of them HIV-positive young men, broke the mold as radical warriors taking on Washington and the medical establishment.
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Dec 5
December 5, 2012
7:15 a.m.–1:45 p.m. (EST)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkMiners and Loggers, Poachers and Pirates: Understanding Illicit Economies
In this provocative discussion, Open Society Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown brings fresh and unexpected insights to the study of seven illicit economies.
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Dec 3
December 3, 2012
1:00–8:00 p.m. (EST)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkThe Voices of Poverty
Join us for a discussion with journalist Sasha Abramsky, creator of the multimedia project The Voices of Poverty.
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Nov 30
November 30, 2012
7:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. (EST)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkFormer Yugoslavia: Is the Violent Past Irreversible?
Sandra Orlović and Mario Mažić, human rights activists from Serbia and Croatia, discuss challenges and prospects of transitional justice in these two countries that have decisive roles in shaping the future of the Balkans.
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Nov 20
November 20, 2012
7:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. (EST)
Open Society Foundations–New York
New YorkNatural Resources and Conflict in Afghanistan
The Open Society Foundations host a conversation with Renard Sexton about the role of natural resources in the Afghanistan conflict.
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