Archives: The Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program Events

Red Channel, Blue Channel: How Fox and MSNBC Are Transforming American Politics

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 6:00pm

In collaboration with New America's Media Policy Initiative

 

The Crisis of Zionism

Monday, March 26, 2012 - 5:30pm

In its 1948 declaration of independence, Israel committed to “ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex." Today, those fundamental democratic ideals are at stake. In Israel, the continued occupation of the West Bank and an emboldened conservative government are putting Israeli democracy at risk.

The Richer Sex

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 6:00pm

A revolution is under way. In 1970, less than 5 percent of working wives in the U.S. out earned their husbands. Today, nearly 40 percent do. Within a generation, a majority of working women will make more than their husbands and more women will support families than men.

In The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family, best-selling author Liza Mundy shows how this reality will transform the sexual, dating, marriage, and work habits of men and women worldwide.

What Would You Do?

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 6:00pm

From corporate whistleblowing to civil disobedience, some of the boldest acts of dissent are carried out not by radicals seeking to overthrow the system, but by true believers clinging with unusual fierceness to their convictions. In his latest book, Eyal Press tells the dramatic stories of people who refused to conform when facing a morally compromising situation.

Beyond the Dream: Changing the Conversation About Immigration

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 12:00pm

Video from the panel "Immigrant Rights Aside, What’s the U.S. Interest Here?"

On January 17, the New America Foundation and ImmigrationWorks USA held an event to discuss how to have a more constructive debate about immigration. Tamar Jacoby, New America Schwartz Fellow and President of ImmigrationWorks USA, gives her take on the event below:

How to Ignite, or Quash, a Revolution in 140 Characters or Less

Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 2:00pm

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Do the Internet and social media empower Big Brother or individuals in autocratic regimes, or do they offer a rare level playing field?

Mañana Forever? Mexico and the Mexicans

Friday, May 20, 2011 - 9:00am

The Woodrow Wilson Center Mexico Institute & the New America Foundation cordially invite
you to the latest installment in the ongoing series Dialogues with Mexico/Diálogos con México, featuring the launch of a new book, Mañana Forever?:Mexico and the Mexicans, by noted Mexican scholar and opinion leader Jorge Castañeda.

Breakfast will be provided.

Book Event: World Wide Mind

Monday, March 21, 2011 - 12:15pm

What if digital communication felt as real as being touched? This question led acclaimed science writer Michael Chorost to explore profound new ideas triggered by lab research around the world, and has resulted in World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines and the Internet (Free Press; February 2011) — the first book to explain exactly how humans and computers could be merged and the risks, implications, and amazing possibilities that await us in the future.

Here Be Dragons: Governing a Technologically Uncertain Future

Thursday, February 3, 2011 - 8:30am

Welcome

Andrés Martinez, co-director of the Future Tense Initiative and director of the Schwartz Fellows Program at the New America Foundation, took to the stage at Washington, D.C.’s Google office to welcome the assembled audience and set the stage for the day-and-a-half-long event. Among the primary questions to be pondered, he said, were: “How, as a democratic society, can we exercise oversight over scientific inquiry?

Fighting for Darfur

Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - 5:30pm

On Tuesday, February 1st, Rebecca Hamilton discussed her newly released book, Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide, with UN Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide Juan E. Méndez and moderator Andrés Martinez.  Hamilton is a Bernard L. Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation and this book is the culmination of five years of in depth investigation. 

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