Lunchtime Seminar: Trauma and Memory: A Reporter's Toolkit

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 [email protected] to reserve a place.