AFTERMATH: Journalism, storytelling, and the impact of violence and tragedy

Schedule

THURSDAY | FRIDAY | SATURDAY

Thursday, February 26, 2009

5 - 6 p.m.

Registration and reception

6 - 6:30 p.m.

Opening Remarks

  • Welcome
    Bob Giles, Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard

  • Why this conference?
    Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

6:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Dinner

7:30 - 9:30 p.m.

CONTEXT I: TRAUMA AND HISTORY

Life After Death: War, Memory and American Identity

  • Drew Gilpin Faust, President, Harvard University, and Robert Jay Lifton, Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

    A conversation moderated by Jacki Lyden, Host and Correspondent, NPR
 

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Friday, February 27, 2009

8 - 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast

9 - 9:15 a.m.

Welcome

9:15 - 10:30 a.m.

CONTEXT II: TRAUMA DEFINITIONS AND DIMENSIONS

The Narrative of Emotional Injury

  • Pete Hamill, Journalist and Author
    The republic of trauma

  • Elana Newman, McFarlin Chair of Psychology, University of Tulsa and Research Director, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
    Approach and avoidance in trauma narratives: Scientific and clinical perspectives

  • Jonathan Shay, Psychiatrist and 2009 Omar N. Bradley Chair of Strategic Leadership at the US Army War College and Dickinson College
    Fearless speech: The cycle of narrative communalization of trauma is political at every step!

    Moderator: Stefanie Friedhoff, Conference Director, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard

9:45 - 10 a.m.

Break

10 - 11:30 a.m.

CONTEXT III: TRAUMA AND THE INDIVIDUAL

Story After Silence

  • Richard Mollica, Director, Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma and Professor, Harvard Medical School
    The major elements of the trauma story as illustrated by the Cambodian-American Women’s Oral History Project

  • Alexander McFarlane, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Australia
    The failure of language to speak of trauma

  • Julia Lieblich, Author and Professor of Journalism, Loyola University
    Storytelling as an act of courage — lessons from a book project

  • Esad Boškailo, Psychiatrist and Associate Director, Residency Training Program, Maricopa Integrated Health System, Mesa, Ariz.
    Dancing with memories: Talking, and not talking, about my year in six Bosnian concentration camps

    Moderator: Kalpana Jain, Global Health Journalist

11:30 - 11:45 a.m.

Break

11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.

CONTEXT IV: TELLING THE STORIES OF TRAUMA
PART 1: TRUTH COMMISSIONS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE TESTIMONIES


Speaking Horror: Truth, Accountability and Reconciliation

  • Seamus Kelters, Television Producer, BBC, Ireland and Author of “Lost Lives”
    One book, a thousand victims, a million words — writing for a divided society

  • Marc Cooper, Journalist, Author and Director, Annenberg Digital News, University of Southern California
    Chile: From massacre to collective memory

  • Anna Di Lellio, Lecturer in International Affairs, The New School, N.Y., and former Media Commissioner of Kosovo
    Memory entrepreneurs and the dynamics of truth after conflict

    Moderator: Jack Saul, Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health and Director, International Trauma Studies Program, Columbia University

1 -2 p.m.

Lunch

2:45 - 5 p.m.

CONTEXT V: TELLING THE STORIES OF TRAUMA
PART 2: ARTISTS


Artistic Expression: Trauma as Muse

  • E. Ann Kaplan, Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Stony Brook University
    Can trauma be represented? Aesthetic strategies and ethical issues

  • Rose Moss, Novelist
    Blood and salt: Art and trauma

  • Roya Hakakian, Poet and Journalist
    Trauma? What trauma?

  • Lori Grinker, Photographer and Author
    Using the human body as the narrative device to portray the horrors of war

    Moderator: Alicia Anstead, Editor, Inside Arts Magazine, and Freelance Journalist

3:3 - 3:45 p.m.

Break

3:45 - 5:15 p.m.

CONTEXT VI / PRACTICE I: TELLING THE STORIES OF TRAUMA
PART 3: JOURNALISTS


Documenting Violence: Investigating, Narrating and Challenging its Roots

  • Julia Reynolds, Criminal Justice Reporter, The Monterey County Herald, Monterey, Calif.
    Staying sane on the crime beat

  • Rachel Dissell, Reporter, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio
    Covering Johanna: How a victim’s poems forced us to report her story in new ways

  • Donna De Cesare, Photographer and Professor of Documentary Photography, University of Texas
    Time for grace: How to establish collaboration with your protagonists when covering the impact of violence

  • Luis Rodriguez, Journalist, Poet and Author
    Hearts and hands: Creating community in violent times

    Moderator: Margarita Martinez, Freelance Filmmaker and Journalist

5:15 - 6:30 p.m.

NETWORKING DINNER
Aiyara Thai Cuisine in Harvard Square
16-18 Eliot St., 2nd Floor, Cambridge, Mass.
www.aiyarathaicuisine.com; 617-497-8288

 

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Saturday, February 28, 2009

8 - 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast

9 - 10:15 a.m.

PRACTICE II: TRAUMA AND INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT

Reporting the Iraq War: Whose Truth is Being Told?

  • Hannah Allam, Cairo Bureau Chief and Former Baghdad Bureau Chief, McClatchy Newspapers
    Safety versus story

  • Abdul Razzaq al-Saiedi, Reporter, The New York Times
    The story of my story

  • Kael Alford, Freelance Photographer
    Photographing conflict in a local context

  • Daniel Rothenberg, Managing Director, International Projects, International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul University
    Telling trauma stories: Reflections on why victims speak about atrocities and the truth value of testimonies

    Moderator: Jacki Lyden, Host and Correspondent, NPR

10 - 10:15 a.m.

Break

10:30 - 11:45 a.m.

CONTEXT VII / PRACTICE III: TRAUMA AND JOURNALISM

Innovations in Understanding and Communicating

  • Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
    So, what IS trauma journalism?

  • Frank Ochberg, Psychiatrist and Chair Emeritus, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
    How the psychiatrist sees it: The three acts of trauma news

  • Scheherezade Faramarzi, Reporter, The Associated Press, Beirut, Lebanon
    Covering competing narratives in the Middle East: Reflections on narrating aftermath

    Moderator: Bruce Shapiro

11:15 - 11:30 a.m.

Break

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

PRACTICE IV: BREAKOUT SESSIONS I
Choose from four workshops.

12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 - 2:45 p.m. PRACTICE V: BREAKOUT SESSIONS II
Choose from four workshops.
2:45 - 3 p.m. Break
3 -4:30 p.m.

PRACTICE VI: TRAUMA AND COMMUNITY

New Orleans After Katrina: The Flood of Memory in the Midst of Recovery

  • Jed Horne, Former Editor, The Times-Picayune and Author
    Coverage and recovery, post-Katrina: In search of the narrative threads

  • Brett Myers, Field Producer, and Jiarra Jackson, Host and Youth Reporter, Youth Radio
    Generation Katrina: Amplifying youth voices, training young people and bolstering community organizations

  • Larry Blumenfeld, Writer and Editor
    Silence is violence: Katrina and culture

  • Patricia Smith, Poet and Author
    Resurrecting voices

    Moderator: Arnessa Garrett, Editor, The Daily Advertiser, Lafayette, La.

4.30 p.m. Closing remarks
 

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