Media & Arts

Magnum Foundation Announces Scholarship Opportunity
Deadline: January 18, 2011
The Magnum Foundation, an Open Society grantee, offers scholarships for the 2011 NYU/Magnum Foundation Photography and Human Rights Program.

Call for Proposals: Moving Walls 19 Documentary Photography Exhibition
Deadline: April 1, 2011
The Open Society Foundations invite photographers to submit a body of work for consideration in the Moving Walls 19 group exhibition.

Call for Proposals: Documentary Photography Audience Engagement Grant
Deadline: May 13, 2011
The Open Society Documentary Photography Project offers a grant to support alternative models for presenting and disseminating documentary photography to the public.

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Real Men: A Curriculum for Empowering Young Men of Color
OSI-New York
October 12, 2010
 AUDIO
This screening and discussion focuses on a powerful set of educational tools that help young men develop the skills, emotional flexibility, and resilience they need to succeed.

Exposing Statelessness: Understanding the Plight of Burma's Rohingya
OSI-New York
May 27, 2010
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Using Saiful Huq Omi’s photographs and a recent report from Physicians for Human Rights as a point of departure, this panel explores the impact of statelessness on the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority in western Burma.

10 Tactics for Turning Information into Action
OSI-New York
March 1, 2010
 AUDIO
Sam Gregory of WITNESS and other rights advocates discuss original and artful ways to capture attention and communicate a cause.

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The Black Male Image in the American Mind
Rashid Shabazz
December 6, 2010
 BLOG  
Why is the current U.S. media landscape unable to present more images that advance open and healing dialogue for all?

TV for Peace
Marina Sivasheva
November 23, 2010
 BLOG    VIDEO  
After violence erupted in southern Kyrgyzstan between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks this past June, many people questioned the role of the media in the conflict.

Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property
November 2010
This book from MIT Press charts the rise of the access to knowledge movement and features over 60 essays from thought leaders including Yochai Benkler, Peter Drahos, Lawrence Liang, and James Love.

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