{"id":302173,"date":"2010-02-10T11:25:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pon.harvard.edu\/?p=9851"},"modified":"2010-02-10T11:25:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:25:04","slug":"canceled-wednesday%e2%80%99s-event-oil-and-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/302173","title":{"rendered":"CANCELED:  Wednesday\u2019s Event, Oil and Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s event with Peter Maas and Ed Kashi has been postponed due to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/breaking_news\/2010\/02\/bay_state_girds.html\">inclement weather<\/a>.\u00a0 The rescheduled date will be announced as soon possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the event:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join us for a discussion and media presentation of the role oil plays in global  conflict.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petermaass.com\/\"><strong>Peter Maass<\/strong><\/a>, <em>New York Times Magazine<\/em> writer and author  of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petermaass.com\/books\/crude_world\/\"><em>Crude World: The Violent Twiligh<\/em><\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petermaass.com\/books\/crude_world\/\">t of Oil<\/a>, <\/em>will discuss the power of oil to fan the flames of existing problems and harm countries that possess large quantities of it. His work has taken him to Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Nigeria, Venezuela, and Kuwait.<\/p>\n<p>Renowned photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edkashi.com\/\"><strong>Ed Kashi<\/strong><\/a> will share his photographs and multimedia work on the Niger Delta, focusing on issues of oil, development, environmental and economic destruction, sustainability, and our own unavoidable connections to these dynamics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DATE &amp; LOCATION TBA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This event is  co-sponsored by:<br \/>\nThe Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nieman.harvard.edu\/NiemanFoundation.aspx\">The  Nieman Foundation for Journalism<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\/presspol\/\">The Shorenstein Center on the Press,  Politics, and Public Policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s event with Peter Maas and Ed Kashi has been postponed due to inclement weather.\u00a0 The rescheduled date will be announced as soon possible. About the event: Join us for a discussion and media presentation of the role oil plays in global conflict. Peter Maass, New York Times Magazine writer and author of Crude World: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}