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The Declassification Engine is a conference on the Computational Analysis of Official Secrecy.

The Declassification Engine
Friday, May 10 2013
9:00 am to 6 p.m.
Lecture Hall (3rd Floor), School of Journalism (Pulitzer Building)

Historians, journalists, legal scholars, statisticians, and computer scientists are meeting at Columbia University to consider how computational methods can illuminate the broad patterns of official secrecy and accelerate the declassification process.

For more information and registration:
http://www.declassification-engine.org/index.py?section=conference

Conference Organizers:

Michael Collins, Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Computer Science | Matthew Connelly, Professor of International and Global History | David Madigan, Professor and Chair of the Statistics Department

Sponsored by:

The Heyman Center for the Humanities | The Hertog Program on Law and National Security | The Brown Institute for Media Innovation | Columbia University Seminar on Big Data and Digital Scholarship | Department of Computer Science | Department of Statistics

Here are two opportunities for part-time students.

1) The German Embassy Young Journalist program
This year, we are hosting a German-American workshop in Washington, D.C., for outstanding young journalists from the United States and Germany to discuss journalistic challenges from agiobai perspective and with a transatlantic dimension. The workshop will take place May 20 -24, 2013.

The goal of the workshop is to foster transatlantic dialogue in the field of journalism and to build personal networks. Participants will have the opportunity to discover and discuss our common interests, endeavors, and challenges in politics and as societies and how this relates to journalistic work.

Participants will meet with leading American and German journalists, experts, U.S. administration officials, and representatives of the German Embassy. Travel expenses and accommodations will be paid by the German Embassy. For further information, please contact Mr. Stefan Messerer, Deputy Head of the Press Department, by e-mail atpr-2@wash.diplo.de or by phone at (202) 298-4246.

2) Wanted: student journalists and mentors for the Online News Association Student Newsroom 2013
See link to apply: http://journalists.org/2013/04/04/wanted-student-journalists-and-mentors-for-the-ona13-student-newsroom/

Apply to be one of 20 select students in the ONA13 Student Newsroom at the 2013 Online News Association Conference and Awards Banquet, Oct. 17-19, in Atlanta.Students, want to get your work in front of over 1,400 digital journalism professionals and network with leaders in the industry - not to mention potential employers? Would it seal the deal if it were all free?

Applications for both students and mentors must be received by May 2 at 11:59 p.m. The Student Newsroom, supported for the fourth year by Google, immerses college students in a digital media environment by providing hands-on experience producing content for the ONA13 website before and during the conference, under the personal guidance of professional mentors. Students also have the opportunity to attend ONA13 programming led by experts in digital journalism, network with attendees and acquire and flex new digital media skills. Lodging, travel and registration expenses are covered.

The Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering is hosting an inaugural symposium From Big Data to Big Ideas on Friday, April 5 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Faculty Room of Low Memorial Library.

The one-day symposium focuses on the promise and challenge of data science in today’s information-driven world. The full schedule and speakers list can be found here. To register, click here.

From: Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association - Local 831 IBT

D.A. and Union Remind Public That Sanitation Worker Assault Law Goes Into Effect This Weekend

Joined by workers who have been assaulted on the job, Brooklyn District Attorney Joe Hynes and sanitation union President Harry Nespoli will hold a press conference
10:15 A.M., Friday, September 14, In Front of City Hall
to remind the public that the law signed by Gov. Cuomo making an assault on a NYC sanitation worker a felony will go into effect on Sunday.
They will also be joined by state legislators who sponsored the law in response to the growing number of assaults on sanitation workers , which doubled in 2011 as compared to the year earlier. City sanitation workers will now have the same protection given to city firefighters and other uniformed forces. Under the new law, a person convicted of assaulting a sanitation worker on the job faces up to seven years in jail.

You have been invited to the 20th Annual New York Press Club Foundation Conference on Journalism 2012

Saturday, Sept. 29, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

At New York University’s Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South (at LaGuardia Place)

Keynote speaker Joan Walsh, Salon.com & MSNBC
Plenary discussion: “Is This Any Way to Cover an Election?”

Sessions include:
Investigative Reporting, Personal Branding, Taming the Information Overload
Covering NYC Sports in the Social Media Age, NYC’s “Big Soda” wars
& “Flacks vs. Hacks,” a discussion on relationships between journalists & PR pros

Student special:
Reel, Resumé & Website Review: How To Best Present Your Work To Hiring Managers

Featuring panelists from: The Associated Press, Columbia Journalism Review, ProPublica, The New York Times,
Newsday, Fox News, WNYC/ ItsAFreeCountry.org, Thomson Reuters, BreakingNews.com, LinkedIN,
The 4th Estate Project, The New York Post, Fox News, Brand Talk, 360Degrees PR, MSG Network,
WABC-TV, 1010WINS, “On the Black” video blog, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
Stevens Media Consulting, Stony Brook University and more.

Student Pricing: $10 for members; $20 non-members

Register at: newyorkpressclub.org

The Columbia University Partnership for International Development (CUPID) invites you to attend our annual conference:

Saturday, March 3, 2012
11:00AM – 8:00PM
2920 Broadway. (116th and Broadway)
Jed Satow Conference Room, Lerner Hall (5th Floor)
Columbia University Morningside Campus

This year’s spring conference, “In A State Of Transition: Locating The Role Of The International Community,” focuses on the role of the international community in transitioning states, which are undergoing a process of change from authoritarian to citizen-lead governance. This is a subject under intense debate given the recent events of 2011 and current ongoing crises in the Middle East. By bringing together a host of leading scholars, policymakers, and practitioners from the field of international development we wish to address a key question of inquiry: Where does the power of international actors end and national sovereignty begin? In an attempt to address this question we hope that CUPID’s 2012 conference will be a forum of lively debate and discussion around the topics of concern, such as transitional justice, gender rights and educational reform.

THE EVENT IS FREE. We welcome the general public to engage with scholars and practitioners in a multidisciplinary dialogue concerning the challenges faced by international actors, such as multilateral organizations and NGOs on this critical subject.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Benny Dembitzer, International Development Economist & Author of The Attack On World Poverty.

Panelists include:
Youssef Mahmoud, International Peace Institute.
Mary Schwoebel, US Institute of Peace.
Lisa Magarrell, International Center for Transitional Justice.
Sara Abbas. Institute of Development Studies.
Linda Bishai, US Institute of Peace.
Rebecca Wolfe, Mercy Corps.
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Please RSVP at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/9642505

For more details, log onto:
http://www.cupidconference.weebly.com
http://www.facebook.com/events/293399180720305/

J-Schoolers,

The Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion and the United Nations Alliance for Civilizations Cordially Invites You to:

Workshops on Religion and Human Rights Pragmatism: Strategies for promoting rights through dialogue across religions and cultures

When: Thursday, November 10th, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m. & Friday, November 11th, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Where: Lindsay Rogers Room, 707 International Affairs Building, Columbia University

The Center for Democracy, Toleration and Religion at Columbia University cordially invites you to the second conference in the series on Religion and Human Rights Pragmatism. This workshop, on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 10 and Nov. 11, will focus on strategies for promoting rights through persuasion and dialogue across cultural and religious divides. Presenters include representatives from the Open Society Institute, Human Rights Watch, and International Crisis Group as well as London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, Harvard, Columbia, Northwestern, the University of Massachusetts, NYU and Berkeley.

This workshop examines the process of articulating a pragmatic tactical position in fostering a discourse of human rights by asking: How assertive or confrontational should persuasive tactics be? Is it best to be open about real differences or avoid calling attention to them? Is it useful to look for least-common-denominator common ground, or is it better to have exploratory conversations where both sides grapple with issues and both are open to change? Or should all of these issues be kept tacit, so that norms change happens gradually, by insinuation and through practice? How do persuasive tactics need to be tailored to different target groups? How does dialogue within cultural or religious groups affect dialogue about rights between groups?

Presenters include: Lila Abu Lughod (Columbia), Thomas Kellogg (The Open Society Institute), Naz Modirzadeh (Harvard), Dorothy Q. Thomas, Ron Hassner (University of California-
Berkeley), Elizabeth Hurd (Northwestern), Daniel Philpott (University of Notre Dame), Stephen Hopgood (London- SOAS), Leslie Vinjamuri (London-SOAS), Sarah Leah Whitson (Human Rights
Watch), Liesl Gerntholtz (Human Rights Watch), Sally Merry (NYU) and Charli Carpenter (UMass-Amherst).

Call for Conference Volunteers

Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and the Center for Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR) are proud to host the interactive Forum on Iran: New Generation, New Perspectives, New Media Conference on April 17, 2010.

The Organising Committee of the Forum on Iran: New Generation, New Perspectives, New Media (April 17, 2010, Low Memorial Library, Columbia University) is now recruiting student volunteers to assist with various tasks pretaining to the forum.

This interactive forum on media and policy forum will bring together young Iranians who have demonstrated leadership in academia, the public sector, the arts and media and will discuss current trends and stimulate debate. For more information please visit the conference’s website at http://www.newgenerationforum.org.

The smooth operation and success of this conference will depend heavily on the professionalism and dedication of our team of volunteers. They will engage in note-taking for the final report, meeting and greeting attendees, assisting speakers, updating the website among other tasks. Our selected volunteers will have their registration fees waived and will have the opportunity to work directly under the organising committee.

The various types of volunteers needed during conference and the responsibilities for each volunteer assignment are explained below.

Registration and Information Desk: Volunteers needed to check-in attendees and distribute conference materials (name badges, water bottles, etc.). Volunteers are encouraged to attend one half-hour training session describing registration duties.

Room Monitor: Volunteers are needed for each panel session. Room monitors check with the Volunteer Desk before a workshop/session begins to confirm the status of the speaker. They also welcome the speaker(s) when they arrive, ensure room arrangements and speaker’s AV requirements are met and inform the audience how to obtain handouts (if any).

Assistant Rapporteur: Volunteers are needed to assist in each of the plenary sessions and take notes in a clear and concise manner so as to contribute to the final report of each panel and the conference. For this position please forward a sample writing of 2-3 pages in addition to your CV and cover letter.

To apply, please forward your CV and a cover letter to sipforum@gmail.com with CC to ayehnaraghi@gmail.com.

MEI: “The Role of the Media in the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict: A conversation with Danny Rubinstein”
Date: September 9, 2008 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Contact: For further information regarding this event, please contact Megan Hazle at mh2694@columbia.edu.

SIPA, The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, the Middle East Institute at Columbia and Americans for Peace Now present a conversation with Danny Rubinstein, Israel’s longest serving West Bank correspondent. Ori Nir, spokesperson for Americans for Peace Now will moderate.

Danny Rubinstein, Israel’s longest serving West Bank correspondent, recently retired from Ha’aretz Daily after a long career as a senior commentator on Palestinian affairs. He is now a columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth’s economic supplement, Kalkalist. Having covered the West Bank and Gaza since they fell under Israeli occupation in 1967, Rubinstein is one of the most trusted and respected experts worldwide on Israeli-Palestinian relations. He is the author of several books, among them People of Nowhere: The Palestinian Vision of Home, and The Mystery of Arafat, a biography of the Palestinian leader. Rubinstein, a native of Jerusalem, teaches at Hebrew University and at Ben Gurion University in the Negev.

RICHARD M. SMITH
Editor-in-Chief, Newsweek

MARK WHITAKER
Editor, Newsweek

cordially invite you to

THE GLOBAL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION

with special guest panel moderator
BRIAN WILLIAMS, Anchor and Managing Editor, NBC Nightly News

and special guest luncheon keynote speaker
THE HONORABLE MARK WARNER, Former Governor of Virginia

TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2006
10:30 A.M. Panel Discussion
12:00 P.M. Lunch

The Rockefeller University, Caspary Hall, 1230 York Avenue at 66th Street, NY, NY

RSVP to Erin Gill at erin.gill-rsvp@newsweek.com or 212-445-4156

Note from Joost van Dreunen, jv2108, aimed at fellow PhD students, but others might find it useful, too.

Instead of forwarding conference deadlines and ‘calls for papers,’
I’m sending you the necessary links to sign up for these
newsletters yourself. Please be aware that some will generate a lot
of daily messages. Here are the (non-videogame) ones I’m subscribed
to:

• DCC-Talk/NYU Forum
  http://forums.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/nyu.pl?enter=dcc-talk
  
• DCC-All/NYU Forum
  http://forums.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/nyu.pl?enter=dcc-all
  
• Call for Papers/U-Penn
  http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/
  
• Media Ecology Association (lots of yammering here)
  http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/mea

  Thusly I resign from spamming the phd mailing list with forwards