Schedule

10:00AM Welcome & Opening Remarks

William Burke-White, Richard Perry Professor and Inaugural Director, Perry World House

10:05-11:30AM Reporting on Refugees and International Migration: The Role and Responsibilities of Journalists and the Media

Moderator: 
• Trudy Rubin, Worldview Columnist, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Panelists:

• Bill Orme, United Nations Representative, Global Forum for Media Development; Member, Board of Advisors, Ethical Journalism Network
• Sasha Polakow-Suransky, Author and Deputy Editor, Foreign Policy
• Sarah Stillman, Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Director, Global Migration Program, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism
• Graeme Wood, National Correspondent, The Atlantic; PWH Visiting Fellow

12:00-1:30PM Keynote Address by Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

With a special introduction by University of Pennsylvania Provost Wendell Pritchett, and followed by a conversation with William Burke-White, Inaugural Director of Perry World House

1:30-2:15PM Lunch

2:15-3:45PM Protracted Displacement as a Global Concern: What Needs to Change?

Moderator: 
• LaShawn Jefferson, Deputy Director, Perry World House
Panelists:
• Edward Kallon, UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator, Nigeria
• Barbara Rijks, Head of Mission Coordination Unit in Baghdad (Iraq), International Organization for Migration
• Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

4:00-5:00PM Closing Address & Conversation

Yasmine Mustafa, CEO, Roar for Good

In conversation with

Sozi Tulante, Former City Solicitor, Philadelphia; Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Followed by a reception