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Reporting on the Refugee Migration of the Post-Cold War Era
Columbia University
Thursday, September 28, 1995
Luncheon Speaker:
Phyllis E. Oakley, Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migrations--12:45 P.M., Columbia Faculty House (entrance through gate east of Law School at Amsterdam Avenue and 116th Street).
Keynote Speaker:
Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace laureate--2 P.M., Rotunda of Low Memorial Library, Columbia University at Broadway and 116th Street.
Other key events (all in the Rotunda):
9:45 A.M.--Refugees Tell Their Stories, introduction by Robert P. DeVecchi, president, International Rescue Committee
10:30 A.M.--Curbing Forced Migration, panel with Arthur Helton of Open Society Institute; Robert Oakley, former envoy to Somalia; Catherine O'Neill of the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children; Soren Jessen-Peterson, director in New York for UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and Sir Brian Urquhart, former UN Under Secretary General; moderator is Seymour Topping, Sanpaolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism.
3:15 P.M.--Media Coverage of Refugee Issues, panel with Betsy Aaron, former CBS correspondent; Mark Fritz and Tom Kent of the Associated Press; Edward Giradet, editor of Crosslines-Global Report, and Alex Jones of WNYC's On the Media.
Sponsored by the Sanpaolo Professorship and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia
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