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NPC House Team
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Shakespeare Oxford Centennial Symposium
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the book that forever changed Shakespeare studies, the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship will present a free symposium on Wednesday, March 4, 1:00 pm (doors open at 12:30pm), in the NPC’s Fourth Estate Room. This date marks the centennial of the modern discovery that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was very likely the true genius behind the pseudonym “William Shakespeare.” At least as early as the 1590s, when the Shakespeare plays and poems first began to appear, indications of doubt about their author’s identity were published, including hints that…
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A Campaign for Nature
A Campaign for Nature: How Stewart Udall's Legacy Can Help Us Solve the Conservation Crisis
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NPC Broadcast Team
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NPC House Team
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Exclusive Briefing: New Report on Progress for Children since 2000 Worldwide, and the Innovative Aid that Helped Achieve it
Exclusive Briefing: New Report on Progress for Children since 2000 Worldwide, and the Innovative Aid that Helped Achieve itEmbargoed report preview, discussion with Save the Children CEO and Devex Editor-in-Chief Later this month, Save the Children will release its annual Global Childhood Report, which ranks the best and worst countries for children by examining factors that rob children of their childhoods around the world such as child labor, adolescent pregnancy, exclusion from education, and children living in and fleeing from conflict zones. The report includes an analysis of progress…
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2019 Goldziher Prize for Journalists
Master of Ceremonies:Wajahat AliJournalist, writer, lawyer, playwright 6:00 Welcome Reception 6:30 Joseph Kelley, Director, Center for Jewish-Christian-Muslim RelationsMerrimack College A taste of excellence in journalism Presentations and conversation with 2019 awardeesHannah Allam, printAymann Ismail, videoLeila Fadel, audioAnd with awardees for work as journalism studentsZainab Sultan & Si Chen, videoSana Ullah, photography. 7:40 Goldziher Prize presented by John W. Kiser, Chair of the William and Mary Greve Foundation and Emily Churchill, Audience Outreach and Development Associate,…
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NPC Headliners Team
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“Want a Democracy? Let’s Start with Observable Vote Counting”
“Want a Democracy? Let’s Start with Observable Vote Counting” A presentation by Jonathan Simon, author of CODE RED: Computerized Elections and the War on American Democracy Please join us at the National Press Club, Tuesday April 16, 2019 at 6:00 p.m., for a glass of wine and a presentation on the true national emergency that is electronic voting. While voter suppression and gerrymandering are now on the national radar, the counting process itself – and the implications for our democracy of its manifest vulnerability to manipulation – continues to be given a virtual free pass. Every election…
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Is Higher Education at a Tipping Point?
Tuesday, March 26, 20196:00 p.m. — light reception in First Amendment Lounge7:00 p.m. — panel discussion in The Murrow Room Please join UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief David Lauter, education law expert Elizabeth Meers, and UCLA vice provost for enrollment management Youlonda Copeland-Morgan for a live conversation on the future of public higher education. Topic: Most agree the pursuit of higher education increases opportunities, but questions of access, quality and affordability continue to arise. Some believe the four-year, on-campus experience should…
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