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