Join Us for ‘Refugee Hotel’ Events This Month in New York

Posted on February 6, 2013


Join Voice of Witness, photographer Gabriele Stabile, and editor Juliet Linderman at events celebrating the release of Refugee Hotel, the newest title in the Voice of Witness series. Refugee Hotel is a groundbreaking collection of photography and interviews that documents the arrival of refugees in the United States. Evocative images are coupled with moving testimonies from people describing their first days in the U.S., the lives they’ve left behind, and the new communities they’ve since created.

We hope to see you at one of our events in New York this February!

Thursday, February 21, 6 pm-8 pm
Columbia University Stabile Student Center
2950 Broadway New York, NY 

Columbia University’s Oral History Masters of Arts, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, and School of Journalism welcome Gabriele Stabile and Juliet Linderman for a presentation and discussion on the role of oral history in contemporary human rights and photojournalism. This event is free and open to the public. Click here for more information.

Friday, February 22, 12 pm-2:30 pm
má pêche at Chambers Hotel
15 W. 56th Street, New York, NY 

Join Momofuku, Voice of Witness, and the New York Public Library for ’What Does it Mean to Be(come) an American?’, opening the season for Momofuku’s popular 56th Street Round Table series. Panelists are Gabriele Stabile, Juliet Linderman, and Bob Carey, Vice President of Resettlement and Migration Policy for the International Rescue Committee. The conversation will be moderated by Amy Starecheski, Associate Director of the Oral History MA Program, Columbia University. Following the discussion, guests will have the opportunity to continue the conversation with the speakers over lunch, prepared by chef Paul Aarmichael and the má pêche team. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here and use ‘feb 56ff ’ for a special Voice of Witness discount code.

Tuesday, February 267 pm
PowerHouse Arena
37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY

PowerHouse Arena welcomes Refugee Hotel photographer and editor Gabriele Stabile and Juliet Linderman for a talk and book signing, with refreshments provided by Drambuie. Click here for more information.

 

These events and the work of Voice of Witness are made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

Voice of Witness is a nonprofit book series that empowers those most closely affected by contemporary social injustice. Using oral history as a foundation, the series depicts human rights crises around the world through the stories of the men and women who experience them. Voice of Witness was founded by author Dave Eggers and physician/human rights scholar Lola Vollen, and is the nonprofit division of McSweeney's Books.

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