Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

The Mimi Award is given each year by the Dart Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting sensitive coverage of victims of violence, composed of journalists who have received fellowships and awards from the Dart Center or the Dart Society. The award, which includes a $1,000 prize, will be presented in the winner's hometown in September 2010.

For guidelines,  history and the nomination form for this year's Mimi Award, visit the Dart Society blog.

The Dart Center co-sponsors a screening of "Restrepo," winner of the 2010 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, as part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. The film, named after a platoon medic who was killed in action, chronicles the experiences of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, a remote, 15-man outpost considered one of the most dangerous deployments in the region. 

For more information see the official website.

Details

Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
W. 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam
New York, NY

The Dart Center co-sponsors a screening of "Restrepo," winner of the 2010 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, as part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.  The film, named after a platoon medic who was killed in action, chronicles the experiences of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, considered one of the most dangerous deployments in the region. 

For more information see the official website.

Details

Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
W. 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam
New York City, NY

The Dart Center co-sponsors a screening of "Restrepo," winner of the 2010 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, as part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.  The film, named after a platoon medic who was killed in action, chronicles the experiences of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, considered one of the most dangerous deployments in the region. 

For more information see the official website.

Details

Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
W. 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam
New York City, NY

Good environmental reporting is not just about the science. Alongside the technical analysis lies the human impact. Telling the stories of vulnerable people, who have often been adversely affected by environmental damage in profound and dramatic ways, requires research, knowledge and sensitivity — and in some cases genuine personal courage. What does it take for journalists to capture faitfhully and clearly the experience of people caught up in environmental crisis, be it the slow grind of ever-increasing resource loss or the sudden calamity of a catastrophic flood? How how do reporters remain resilient in situations where their own families have been caught up in those very events?

Convened by Dart Centre Europe, panelists include John Pope, Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for The Times-Picayune, New Orleans' leading newspaper, and Roosevelt Jean Francois, an award-winning radio journalist and the leader of CECOSIDA,  a grassroots community organisation that trains Haitian journalists in how to effectively and sensitively report social, environmental and humanitarian issues. 

For more information, see the official website.

DETAILS

The panel will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum
World Conference Center Bonn (WCC Bonn)
Platz der Vereinten Nationen 2
53113 Bonn
Germany

The International Trauma Studies Program (ITSP) is a training and research institute in New York City, committed to enhancing the resilience and coping capacities in individuals, families, and communities that have endured and/or are threatened by traumatic events. This ITSP seminar will last from Sept. 2010 through May 2011 and will explore mental health and psychosocial responses to massive trauma and loss in various cultural contexts. The seminar draws on classical and recent readings, research papers, case studies, and materials from the ITSP audiovisual library of prior workshops and presentations. The seminar is accompanied by a performance workshop that will explore current issues and challenges of trauma affected populations living in New York City.

Applicants with prior ITSP certificate training and/or experienced graduates in mental health, health, and allied professions are encouraged to apply. Applicants without a graduate degree but with significant experience and training in the trauma/psychosocial field will be considered for acceptance to the seminar.

For more information, and to apply for the seminar, see the official website.

When reconstructing events, journalists rely on their sources. But witnessing trauma can have strange effects on memory. In some cases, recall becomes intensified and astonishingly detailed; at others, distorted and inaccurate. Some witnesses may even blank out events entirely, perhaps to experience them resurfacing years later. Sometimes what sounds like lying is not lying at all. And so what do working journalists need to know in order to best evaluate what they are being told?

Leading journalists and researchers will take us through the science and the journalistic pitfalls.

DETAILS

This event will last from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

48 Gray's Inn Road
London WC1X 8LT

Entrance around the corner on Baldwin Gardens. Nearest tube: Chancery Lane

Lunch will be provided.

Places are limited, so RSVP to events@dartcentre.org to reserve a place.