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New fund aims to increase Media Viability in developing markets
The venture was announced on World Press Freedom Day, explicitly linking media freedom and media viability by Mac Larsen In honor of World Press Freedom Day 2022, the International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM) announced the first round of funding for public...
How Newsrooms and Tech Companies are Combatting Online Violence Against Women Journalists
by Hevenn Vanhelsdingen As digital attacks become more frequent, female journalists are increasingly exposed to online sexual assault and personal information leakages. These attacks are a threat to women’s rights and to democracy because smear campaigns and other...
Religion, Russia, Ukraine: Panel Discussion
An awareness of the deeply religious dimension of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is totally missing in the Western media's otherwise impressive, and often brave, coverage of this ongoing tragedy, which is incomprehensible in reductively political/secular terms. This...
Child-labor’s frightening growth during the war in Yemen
Child-labor's frightening growth during the war in Yemen by Ahmed Aldali and Abdusalam Almassajdi Sana'a, Yemen November, 5 2021 (Translated from the Arabic by University of Oregon Professor David Hollenberg, January 17, 2022. The children's surnames are...
COVID VACCINES A “GLOBAL PUBLIC GOOD”
UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) has recently declared COVID-19 vaccines to be "a global public good." The pandemic is a global phenomenon and can only be approached, and ameliorated, from a global perspective. No nation...
The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
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The Gambler Wife: A Dostoevsky Talk
The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky. Andrew D. Kaufman Warmest salutations to our friends nearby and around the world, We had the great honor of hosting a talk sponsored by the UNESCO/UNITWIN Crossing Institute, welcoming...
A day to reflect on the plight of millions
I have never scrambled in the dirt for food in a refugee camp. I’ve never wished for the coast while looking over the prow of an overcrowded boat on the Mediterranean. Nor have I hunkered down in a crumbling Ukrainian apartment complex, hoping the next bomb doesn’t...
As Secular Peace Effort Stutters in Israel, Religious Mediators Hope to Step In
"At the height of the second major Palestinian uprising, or intifada, against the Israeli occupation in 2002, the two men helped organize a major meeting in Alexandria, Egypt, including rabbis, imams and Christian clerics. It resulted in a joint declaration from...
Real News: Where is it?
Professor David Markowitz talks with Crossings Institute co-Director Peter Laufer in this episode of "Real News: Where is it?" The two explore theories of Truth Default and Plausibility, studies that can help news consumers best navigate news sources during an era of...
Real News: Where is it?
Welcome to the UO-UNESCO Crossings Institute chats with University of Oregon professors whose research deals with how news consumers can best navigate news sources during an era of increasing propaganda fueled by technologies that can shroud fraud. Professor Peter...
Truth, Difference, and Loyalty: An Interfaith Symposium February 14-18, 2021
How can interfaith encounters both engage aligned groups and reach across deep divides? Professor Steven Shankman registered to embark on a weeklong exploration of truth and difference, allyship, and the ways in which faith engenders connections with others, even...
COVID’s Metamorphoses, A Reflective Piece by UNESCO Chair, Dr Hassan Nadhem
The following is a deeply reflective piece conveying a message of hope and resistance to other Covid 19 patients from Dr. Hassan Nadhem, UNESCO Chair on the Development of Inter-religious Dialogue Studies in the Islamic World, based at the University of Kufa. Dr....
Reading Levinas and Talmud in a Time of Plague: A Poetic Response, by the UNESCO Chair featured in Tikkun Magazine
UNESCO Chair and University of Oregon Professor Steven Shankman, shares reflections on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected his teaching, reading, and writing over the past several months through oracle poetry and heartfelt writings. Some of the reflections Shankman...
Rabbi Michael Lerner & the Dalai Lama
A note from Tikkun's Editor, Rabbi Michael Lerner: I was humbled and honored to be invited by the Dalai Lama to speak on two panels with him several years ago, and now to be invited to speak at the Lion's Roar and Tibet House organized Dalai Lama Global Vision Summit....
Upcoming Zoom Events: Getting Religion Right in a Time of Crisis, Featuring Sister Helen Prejean and Rabbi Michael Lerner
Sister Helen, author of River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey (Random House, 2019) and Rabbi Lerner, author of Revolutionary Love: A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World (University of California Press, 2019), will discuss their recent books on...
UNESCO Chair Steven Shankman’s Upcoming Talks
The North American Levinas Society will host their annual conference virtually this year. This subject of this year’s conference is “THE FACE AND THE INTERFACE: Levinas, Teaching, & Technology”, July 20th-23rd, 2020. Conference participants will reflect on Levinas’s...
Transformational Change and the Climate Crisis an Interview with Aurora Flynn
In our second interview with Aurora Flynn, we discuss the nuts and bolts of transformational change and how current capitalist systems stymie the individual's ability to meet the climate crisis and grow stronger. Part 1