Professor Astier M. Almedom (PI) and Professor George A. Bonanno (PI) have been awarded a Rockefeller Foundation grant to develop methods and tools for measuring community resilience to extreme events. This research...
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IGL News|October 16, 2012Charlie Sennott, Vice President, Executive Editor and co-founder of GlobalPost, lectured in the introductory class of the Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice last week. An award-winning foreign correspondent for many years with the Boston Globe, he discussed his Emmy-award winning coverage of the Egyptian Revolution and the Muslim Brotherhood, as...
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IGL News|October 2, 2012Since he first read about Lagos, Nigeria in a New Yorker article by George Packer, Samuel James has been drawn to the country. A Synaptic Scholar at the IGL, he first traveled to Lagos with three other Synaptics during the winter of his sophomore year in 2006-07. Since then, he has returned to Nigeria for at least several months each year, first recording the urban challenges of Lagos, especially for those removed from formal...
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Program News|September 21, 2012Myanmar sits at a crossroads, between the oppression of the last decades and the recent promise of an opening society; between its isolation and the possibility of rejoining the international community; and between the rising geographical powers of China and India. After decades under severe authoritarian military rule, virtually closed off to the outside world, Myanmar is just starting to see an influx of international visitors and...
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IGL News|July 16, 2012
Published by Director of the Program for Narrative and Documentary Practive, Gary Knight, along with Jon Jones, Remy Ourdan And Ziyah Gafic, the book 'Bosnia 1992 - 95" Released at the Sarajevo Film Festival July 11th.
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IGL News|March 23, 2012Join three of Magnum’s photographers -- SUSAN MEISELAS, ANTOINE D’AGATA, PETER VAN AGTMAEL -- for a discussion.
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