Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Torture usually occurs in private, in hidden locations far from the public eye. But it is, in reality, a deeply public act, whose intended meanings and impact extend further than the closed walls of the detention cell. This panel takes the discussion of torture beyond the immediate circle of victim and perpetrator and ask how the rest of society is involved in the practice of torture.

Participants

Gavin Rees, Director of Dart Centre Europe
Stuart Turner, Past President of the ESTSS
David Loyn, BBC International Development Correspondent

Details

This event takes place from 11:15 - 12:30pm

Senat Saal,
University of Vienna,
Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1,
1010 Vienna,
Austria

For more information, see the official website.

In the months that followed the shooting in Winnenden, local journalists and trauma professionals began a series of conversations that shaped the way that those involved responded to the story’s continuing aftermath. Drawing on insight gained from that situation, this debate will broaden out to discuss the conflicts and opportunities that may arise on other occasions when journalists and mental health professionals need to speak to each other. Where, if anywhere, is the common ground?

Participants

Miranda Olff, President of ESTSS
Frank Nipkau, Editor-in-chief, Winnenden Zeitung Newspaper
Thomas Weber, Director, Centre for Global Security and Governance
Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma Chair)

Details

This event takes place from 1:30 - 3:00pm

Auditorium Maximum,
University of Vienna,
Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1,
1010 Vienna,
Austria

For more information, see the official website.

Journalists play a critical and multi-faceted role in communities during times of destruction, war and chaos. Journalists provide the public with information and analysis about traumatic events including community responses to these events. What are role-appropriate ways that trauma experts can engage journalists and facilitate their abilities to tell trauma-informed stories?

Participants

Elana Newman, Reseach Director, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Details

This event takes place from 4:15 - 5:30pm

Hörsaal 28,
University of Vienna,
Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1,
1010 Vienna,
Austria

For more information, see the official website.

Journalists play a critical role in reporting about trauma, human rights violations, and disaster and fostering resiliency in volatile areas. More information is needed about the stressors experienced, and reactions to such exposure. Further, more information about predictors of responses among journalists is critical to inform what trauma experts may do to support journalists. Panelists will describe data from qualitative and quantitative studies of working journalists.

Participants

Klas Backholm, journalism and trauma researcher, Åbo Akademi University, Vaasa, Finland
Summer Nelson, Treatment and Assessment Center for Traumatic Stress
Liselotte Englund, Associate Professor, Media and Communication Studies, Karlstad University

Details

This event will take place from 11:15 - 12:30pm

Hörsaal 31,
University of Vienna,
Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1,
1010 Vienna,
Austria

For more information, see the official website.

The Dart Center will meet with journalists visiting from Iraq under the auspices of the US Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Program.  The title of their professional study tour is "Role of Creative and Broadcast Media."

This is a closed meeting.

Details:

Friday, June 10; 10:50-11:50 a.m. 

The panel includes Jeremy Finley, WSMV-Nashville; Dan Grech, WLRN Miami Herald News and past Dart Ochberg senior fellow; Dart Award Honorable Mention recipient Robert McClure of InvestigateWest and Bruce Shapiro, executive director, Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma.

For more information, see the IRE conference schedule here.

Details:

Saturday, June 11; 2:30-3:30pm

The panel includes Daniel Connolly, The Commercial Appeal; Carlos Dada, El Faro; Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, Hoy and Dart Society President Michel Marizco, of BorderReporter.com and a past Dart Ochberg Fellow.

For more information, see the complete IRE conference schedule.

The deadline has been extended to June 13, 2011 for the Rory Peck Award for News, the Rory Peck Award for Features and the Sony Professional Impact Award. All entries must have had their first broadcast (television, agency feed or recognised online news publisher) between August 1, 2010 and May 31, 2011.

For more information see the Rory Peck Awards website, call 44 (0) 20 3219 7866 or send an email.

Journalism educators from North America, Australia and Great Britain meet at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism June 15-18 for the second annual Dart Academic Fellowship program.

The fellowship provides intensive training on teaching accurate, ethical, and sensitive coverage of tragedy. Sponsored by the Dart Center with additional support from the University of Washington Center for Global Studies.

Additional information about the program and the fellows can be found here.

Most journalists are well-equipped to question powerful politicians or business people, but until recently traditional training has given less attention to understanding the specialist interview tools and additional insight needed when working with the powerless. How does one encourage a victim to accurately reconstruct the story of a violent attack in all its terrible detail without unnecessarily compounding their distress and vulnerability?  How does one avoid further stigmatizing individuals and groups made marginal by violence or discrimination? And what do journalists need to know about the impact of trauma in order to ensure that their sources are giving them the most accurate accounts they can?

Participants

Gavin Rees, Director of Dart Centre Europe (Moderator)
Rana Husseini, Journalist and author
Jina Moore, Journalist
Esther Mujawayo, Sociologist, trauma therapist and author

Details

This event takes place from 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB),
Platz der Vereinten Nationen 2,
53113 Bonn,
Germany,

For more information, see the official website.

Intimate and revealing, "The Price of Sex" is a feature-length documentary about young Eastern European women who have been drawn into a world of sex trafficking and abuse. It is a story told by the young women who refused to be silenced by shame, fear and violence. Emmy-nominated photojournalist Mimi Chakarova, who grew up in Bulgaria, takes us on a personal journey – exposing the shadowy world of sex trafficking from Eastern Europe to the Middle East and Western Europe. Filming undercover and gaining extraordinary access, Chakarova illuminates how even though some women escape to tell their stories, sex trafficking thrives. Discussions with Chakarova follow all screenings.

Featured as part of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, these screenings are presented in association with Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and International Center for Photography.


Details:


Friday June 24, with Q&A, 9:30 pm 


 Film Society of Lincoln Center 

165 West 65th Street, upper level, between Broadway and Amsterdam

Intimate and revealing, "The Price of Sex" is a feature-length documentary about young Eastern European women who have been drawn into a world of sex trafficking and abuse. It is a story told by the young women who refused to be silenced by shame, fear and violence. Emmy-nominated photojournalist Mimi Chakarova, who grew up in Bulgaria, takes us on a personal journey – exposing the shadowy world of sex trafficking from Eastern Europe to the Middle East and Western Europe. Filming undercover and gaining extraordinary access, Chakarova illuminates how even though some women escape to tell their stories, sex trafficking thrives. Discussions with Chakarova follow all screenings.

Featured as part of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, these screenings are presented in association with Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and International Center for Photography.


Details:

Saturday, June 25, 3:30 pm

Screening followed by a panel discussion with filmmaker Chakarova; Danielle Malangone, deputy project director, Midtown Community Court, New York; and Robert Rosenthal, executive director, Center for Investigative Reporting.

Film Society of Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theatre

165 West 65th Street, upper level

Intimate and revealing, "The Price of Sex" is a feature-length documentary about young Eastern European women who have been drawn into a world of sex trafficking and abuse. It is a story told by the young women who refused to be silenced by shame, fear and violence. Emmy-nominated photojournalist Mimi Chakarova, who grew up in Bulgaria, takes us on a personal journey – exposing the shadowy world of sex trafficking from Eastern Europe to the Middle East and Western Europe. Filming undercover and gaining extraordinary access, Chakarova illuminates how even though some women escape to tell their stories, sex trafficking thrives. 

Featured as part of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, these three screenings of "The Price of Sex" are presented in association with Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and International Center for Photography.


Details:

Sunday, June 26, 1:30 pm

Screening, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker

Film Society of Lincoln Center Walter Reade Theatre

165 West 65th Street, upper level (between Broadway and Amsterdam)

Tim Hetherington, who died April 20 along with Chris Hondros while covering the conflict in Libya,  was a photographer, filmmaker, journalist, human rights activist and artist who saw no boundaries between the media he worked in, the outlets he sought to publish in, and the content he created. He was a visionary who used photos, video, memoir, and testimony to explain and humanize conflicts as well as to simply illuminate the human condition.

This program, part of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, includes a screening of Hetherington's  short film, "Diary," followed by a panel discussion. In "Diary," a highly personal and experimental film that expressed the subjective experience of his work, Tim turns the camera inward after more than a decade reporting.

A panel of friends and collaborators, including Carroll Bogert (Human Rights Watch), filmmaker James Brabazon ("Liberia: An Uncivil War"), New York Times photojournalist Michael Kamber and Newsweek International photo editior Jamie Wellford  will discuss his work and legacy.

Details:

Sunday, June 26  9:00 p.m.

Film Society of Lincoln Center Walter Reade Theatre

165 West 65th Street, upper level (between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue)