Calendar

Events in November, 2012

  • Thursday Nov 8 2012

    Scar Tissue: 1 Crime. 2 Writers. 18 Years.

    6:00 PM

    At Columbia University, a conversation with award-winning writers Emily Bernard and Bruce Shapiro, both critically injured in a brutal attack.

    On August 7, 1994, a deranged man brutally stabbed seven people in a New Haven cafe. Award-winning writers Emily Bernard and Bruce Shapiro, both critically injured that night, pondered the attack in essays written nearly two decades apart. Join them for a conversation about crime, memory, and the long shadow of violence.

    Speakers: Emily Bernard, Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies, University of Vermont & Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

    Moderated by Nicholas Lemann, Dean, Columbia Journalism School

    Columbia Journalism School, 2950 Broadway, New York, World Room

  • Saturday Nov 10 2012

    Symposium on Media Ethics and Emotional Wellbeing

    9:30 PM

    A one day symposium which explores the emotional and ethical responsibilities of today's media. The event will look at the challenges faced by the media from a psychological perspective. 

    The aim of the event is to provide space to consider how the participation in and consumption of popular media can be improved on an emotional and ethical level with reference to psychoanalysis.

  • Wednesday Nov 28 2012

    Gala: Rory Peck Awards

    1:00 AM

    At the BFI Southbank in London, the 2011 Rory Peck Awards celebrate the work of freelance newsgatherers.

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