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event January 28, 2016

Deploying Technology to Rescue the Past

Kirsten Holtz

As ISIS campaigns to eradicate non-Islamic cultural heritage in Iraq and Syria and developers throughout the world encroach on sites where antiquities are found, it seems as though the relics of our past have never been at greater risk of being lost to history. Or are they? Technology like geospatial sensing, satellites, drones, 3D imaging, and the like can be deployed to restore what might otherwise be destroyed forever.

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Deploying Technology to Rescue the Past

EVENT January 28, 2016 06:00 PM– 07:30 PM
New America

Thursday January 28, 2016

06:00 PM – 07:30 PM


[u'New America', u'740 15th Street NW', u'Suite 900', u'Washington, DC 20005']

As ISIS campaigns to eradicate non-Islamic cultural heritage in Iraq and Syria and developers throughout the world encroach on sites where antiquities are found, it seems as though the relics of our past have never been at greater risk of being lost to history. Or are they? Technology like geospatial sensing, satellites, drones, 3D imaging, and the like can be deployed to restore what might otherwise be destroyed forever.

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The Butcher’s Trail

EVENT February 01, 2016 12:00 PM– 01:30 PM
New America

Monday February 01, 2016

12:00 PM – 01:30 PM


[u'New America', u'740 15th ST NW', u'Independence Conference Room', u'Washington, DC 20005']

In his new book The Butcher’s Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World’s Most Successful Manhunt, Julian Borger recounts the sleuthing and cat-and-mouse spy games of the pursuit, and asked whether the gains made against impunity for mass atrocities are now unravelling. The lessons are relevant today, as war crimes are committed daily in Syria, and American special forces hunt terrorists across the globe.

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The Planet Remade

EVENT February 01, 2016 12:15 PM– 01:45 PM
New America

Monday February 01, 2016

12:15 PM – 01:45 PM


[u'New America', u'740 15th Street NW', u'Suite 900', u'Washington, DC 20005']

In his new book, The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World, Oliver Morton argues that the risks of climate change merit serious action. According to Morton, geoengineering is not a simple or singular solution to the problem, but it is worth exploring, even if it’s never actually deployed.

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Digital Equity

EVENT February 03, 2016 08:30 AM– 01:00 PM
740 15th Street NW, Suite 900

Wednesday February 03, 2016

08:30 AM – 01:00 PM


[u'740 15th Street NW, Suite 900', u'Washington, DC 20005']

Please join the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, Rutgers University, and New America on February 3, 2016 for Digital Equity: Technology & Learning in the Lives of Lower Income Families.

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in the news | January 27, 2016 | International Security

HBO to Debut Documentary HOMEGROWN: THE COUNTER-TERROR DILEMMA, 2/8

Peter Bergen

Terrorism made front-page headlines again in late 2015, due to events in Paris and San Bernardino, Cal. Both incidents were linked to extremists who pledged ALLEGIANCE to ISIS, and proved just how difficult it is for counter-terrorist agencies to avert such threats in advance.Directed by Greg Barker (HBO's Emmy®-winning "Manhunt") and based on the upcoming book "United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists," by Peter Bergen, HOMEGROWN: THE COUNTER-TERROR DILEMMA is a gripping insider's account of the homegrown terrorist threat in America, told from the perspectives of those who helped construct our counter-terrorism machine - as well as those who are its targets. The timely film debuts MONDAY, FEB. 8 (9:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

in the news | January 27, 2016 | International Security

Can We Stop Homegrown Terrorists?

Peter Bergen

At 11 a.m. on Dec. 2, some 60 miles east of Los Angeles, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, stormed into a Christmas party for employees of the San Bernardino county public-health department, where Farook worked. Wearing military-style clothing and black masks, the couple unleashed a barrage of bullets. They killed 14 people, and minutes after the attack, Malik pledged an oath of allegiance to Islamic State on her Facebook page. It was the most lethal terrorist attack in the U.S. since 9/11.