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February 2019
Migration as Survival in the Era of Climate Crisis
Rising sea levels, drought, food insecurity, intensified hurricanes, and wildfires are some of the many markers of the exacerbating climate crisis. Despite the clear and present danger of climate change, governments are failing to take the action needed to stave off its worst effects. Meanwhile, tens of millions of people,…
Find out more »Human Rights and the Global History of the Iranian Revolution
SPEAKER Roham Alvandi, London School of Economics and Political Science WHEN Thursday, February 28, 2019 5-7pm WHERE Richard Ettinghausen Library at the Hagop Kevorkian Center 50 Washington Square South NYC 10012 Throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the Iranian student opposition…
Find out more »March 2019
Offering Refuge, Building Solidarity: Universities as Sanctuaries
Co-presented by NYU Sanctuary and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. At a time of growing global anti-democratic repression against migrants, minorities and dissidents, how can the university serve as a Sanctuary? The expansion of the New Sanctuary movement beyond places…
Find out more »April 2019
Democratizing Data: Grassroots Strategies to Advance Human Rights (Bernstein Institute Annual Conference)
Seen as essential to understanding human life, data informs and shapes knowledge creation. It is powerful, political, and for generations has been a tool of oppression, generated and harvested by corporations, colonial regimes, and democracies alike to exploit the poor and marginalized. The ability to define individuals and communities has…
Find out more »May 2019
Tech + Society Fireside Chat: Designing for Government
In Conversation with Ariel Kennan Moderated by Lyel Resner Ariel Kennan, Director of Civic Innovation at Sidewalk Labs, will be at this Wednesday’s Fireside Chat discussing the topic of Designing for Government. Kennan is now at Sidewalk Labs where she works with local organizations, government, and communities. Before…
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