Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Ten years after 9/11, Psychology Beyond Borders, together with Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, University of California, Irvine's School of Social Ecology, and the National Center for PTSD, is hosting a lecture and webinar to address questions including:

What have been the mental health consequences for those who experienced the attacks directly or lost a loved one on 9/11?
What has been the impact of the attacks on the national psyche?
What have we learned about those who might be at risk for deleterious mental health effects should there be another large scale terrorist attack?
What have we learned about treatment of disaster survivors?

For more information see the official announcement.

What have we learned, and what do we stand to learn about how catastrophic events affect the health of adults and children? What have we done, and what do we need to do to prepare for and to mitigate the consequences of disasters and terrorism?  The meeting looks forward and sets public health and policy goals for the field over the next decade.

The event is presented by The National Center for Disaster Preparedness and the Department of Epidemiology.

Space is limited If you wish to attend, please contact us at 9.11plus10@columbia.edu as soon as possible.

For more information see the official website.

Photojournalist Lori Grinker, a 2005 Ochberg Fellow, will be exhibiting 19 intimate color photographs taken in Lithuania, South Africa, Ukraine and the United States. The works create an impressionistic map of her family’s migration since its dispersal in the late 1800s from Western Lithuania.

The exhibition will be presented by the Nailya Alexander Gallery at The Fuller Building, 41 East 57th Street, Suite 704. Gallery hours are from 11a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday and by appointment.

The September 13 opening will be from 6 to 8 p.m.

For more information, see the official website.

Robert Jay Lifton will discuss his acclaimed new autobiography, "Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir," in a public conversation with Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the Columbia Journalism School.

Lifton is a pioneering and wide-ranging researcher and thinker on war crimes, nuclear war, traumatic stress and the relationship between history and psychology, and the author of more than ten critically acclaimed books and hundreds of scholarly and popular articles. He is currently Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and the Cambridge Health Alliance. 

In "Witness to an Extreme Century," Lifton charts the adventurous and constantly surprising course of his fascinating life journey, from a "Jewish Huck Finn childhood" in Brooklyn to his encounters with the consequences of cruelty and destructiveness led him to become a passionate social activist.

The event is co-sponsored by The Nation.

Details

Columbia Journalism School
116th & Broadway
New York, NY

The event will last from 6 to 8 p.m.

In Italy the Nigerian gangs come into direct conflict with the traditional Italian mob members but their influence has nonetheless spread across Europe. The Nigerian Connection investigates the plight of the men and women caught up in this web of crime, exploitation and violence and asksimportant question of how its spread can be stopped. How can two continents unite to save lives?

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Producer/Reporter Juliana Ruhfus and Director Orlando von Einsiedel.

For more information, see the official website.

The week-long annual festival will take place from September 25 to October 1. In its program there are discussions of contemporary issues, master classes with leading public speakers, presentations of new media projects, exhibitions, meetings with prominent activists in culture and science, roundtable discussion, journalism awards and more.

The psychological support training will be conducted by Olga Kravtsova, director of the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations (Russia) and the Dart Center country coordinator for Russia, together with Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.

For more information see the official website (in Russian).

Cait McMahon, director of Dart Centre Asia Pacific, will be presenting as part of the stream discussing psychosocial impacts on individuals and intervention options.

The two-day conference is the only conference in Australasia that focuses especially on mental health and psychosocial issues relevant to both first responders and affected communities. Following the 2011 Queensland and New Zealand disasters, this year’s conference will be focusing on best practice in dealing with large scale disasters.

For more information see the official website.

Held ten years after the death of the journalist, Martin O’Hagan, the event will provide a forum for journalists to discuss the legacy of the conflict and any lessons that have a bearing on the future safety of journalists. 

As part of the line-up, Bruce Shapiro, the Dart Centre’s Executive Director and Gavin Rees, the Director of Dart Centre Europe, will be talking about traumatic stress and its safety implications for journalists covering political violence. 

DETAILS

Friday, 30th September, 

9:15am to 5:00 pm

The event is intended for journalists who have been working on political violence in the province. Those interested should contact Kevin Cooper at photoline. 

Cait McMahon, director of Dart Centre Asia Pacific, will be presenting as part of the stream discussing  caring for first responders and employees involved in traumatic events.

The two-day conference is the only conference in Australasia that focuses especially on mental health and psychosocial issues relevant to both first responders and affected communities. Following the 2011 Queensland and New Zealand disasters, this year’s conference will be focusing on best practice in dealing with large scale disasters.

For more information see the official website.