Category Archives: Invitation

INVITE: Screening of No Fire Zone @ SIPA

Fun Stuff, Invitation, Networking, Other Schools, SIPA

Award-winning filmmaker Callum Macrae visits Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) on Monday, February 2, for a screening of his documentary No Fire Zone. His investigation into the final days of the 26-year Sri Lanka civil war sheds light on the government’s brutal military offensive and incorporates direct evidence of war crimes, summary executions, torture and sexual violence via footage recorded from within the zone.

Macrae will also discuss his continuing efforts to raise awareness of these human rights issues—considering the lines between journalism and advocacy. His visit comes against the backdrop of recent elections in Sri Lanka that saw a change in government and an anticipated report due this spring from a UN war crimes inquiry.

No Fire Zone is one of five films to win the 2014 BRITDOC Impact Award, which celebrates standout documentary films that are changing the world. The documentary also was nominated for an International Emmy Award.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Macrae, Pulitzer Center senior editor Tom Hundley, and Kate Cronin-Furman, a human rights lawyer and political scientist whose research focuses on international justice and accountability for mass atrocities.

Reception to follow

“No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka”
Monday, February 2
12:30-2 pm
School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA)
Columbia University
420 W. 118th Street
Room 1512
New York, NY 10027

To RSVP, please click here.

Presented by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, in partnership with the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, the Human Rights Working Group, and the International Media, Advocacy, and Communications program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

INVITE: The Paley Center for Media

Fun Stuff, Invitation, New York City, Non-Columbia Events, Speakers, Speeches

You are cordially invited to attend a

Paley Media Council Breakfast
with
Andrew Rashbass

Chief Executive, Reuters

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 / 8:00 to 9:00 am

Doors open at 7:30am

25 West 52 Street, New York City

Andrew Rashbass
Andrew Rashbass has been chief executive of Reuters since July 2013. Before that, Rashbass was chief executive of The Economist Group. Before becoming CEO, he was the publisher of The Economist and prior to that he was managing director of Economist.com. Before joining The Economist Group in 1997, Rashbass worked at Associated Newspapers. He started his career at Andersen Consulting, now called Accenture. Read More ->

Moderated by Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis is the author of Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live (Simon & Schuster, 2011), What Would Google Do? (HarperCollins 2009), and the Kindle Single Gutenberg the Geek. He blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com and cohosts the podcast This Week in Google. He is professor and director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. He advises media companies, startups, and foundations and is a public speaker. Until 2005, he was president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications. Prior to that, Jarvis was creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner; and assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune.

Space is limited and available on a first-come, first-reserved basis. This invitation is non transferable.

To RSVP, please email mcrsvp@paleycenter.org. Please write “J-School Student” in the Subject Line.

INVITE: Ferguson Solidarity Rally and Town Hall

Community Service, Invitation, New York City, Other Schools, SIPA

Columbia Student Groups Invite Community to Join them at Ferguson Solidarity Rally and Town Hall 

Rally: Monday, Sept. 15, 6:30pm

Where: Butler Lawn, Columbia University

Town Hall: Wednesday, Sept. 17, 6:30 pm

Where: Columbia Law School, Room 104

The New York community is invited to attend both events which are open to the public.

Town Hall&Rally

For more details: CU Rally Media Advisory

INVITE: Asia Society Documentary Screening

Documentary Screening, Invitation, New York City, Non-Columbia Events

You’re invited to join Asia Society for the screening of some documentary films and discussions with filmmakers on China’s environmental issues. “Waking the Green Tiger: Documentaries from the Front Lines of China’s Environmental Crisis.” Free admission. Advance registration requested.

August 18-27, 2014
Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021

To register and for more information see link below:

http://asiasociety.org/new-york/waking-green-tiger-documentaries-front-lines-chinas-environmental-crisis