Event: 18 Jan, NYC Society for Ethical Culture – Iran Hostage Crisis 30th Anniversary Meets WikiLeaks – All-Star Panel

Ethics, Government, History, Military

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Who: Author Stephen Kinzer, Grand Theft Auto Director Navid Khonsari, Newscaster Amy Goodman, Emmy-nominated Mike de Seve, Columbia University Chair of Iran Studies Hamid Dabashi

Where: 2 West 64th St. & Central Park West, NYC, (New York Society for Ethical Culture)

When: Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 7 p.m.

CONTACT: Natalia Mount, Natalia@mountrehbein.com (315) 440-5036

New York, NY, Jan. 12, 2011 – This January 20 marks the 30th anniversary of the end of the Iran Hostage Crisis, when students and militants imprisoned 52 Americans in Tehran for 444 days. The event will occur two days before the anniversary, on Tuesday, Jan. 18th at the Society for Ethical Culture, 2 W. 64th St. at 7:30 pm.

To commemorate the 1981 event, New York Times veteran and best-selling author Stephen Kinzer (All the Shah's Men) joins Amy Goodman and Columbia's Dr. Hamid Dabashi (Chair, Iranian Studies) to re-examine this historic incident, and discuss its impact on current events.

Contributing: Media and tech pioneer Daniel Burwen, founder of Cognito Comics and publisher of Operation Ajax (an interactive iPad app about the crisis' roots); Emmy-nominated Ajax author Mike de Seve; and eBook innovator Harold Moss of FlickerLab. They'll present breakthrough ways history can be brought to new audiences in today's wired world.

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Graphic: OSINT, We Went Wrong, Leaping Forward

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From where we sit, outside the wire, we went wrong at multiple levels, all matters of balance and perspective:

1.  Favoring secrecy over openness

2.  Favoring technologies constant stare (mostly unprocessed) over engaged human brains with eyes on

3.  Demanding unilateral collection, processing, and analysis instead of a multinational foundation