Prospects for Reform on International Migration and Refugees

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 InquirerPanelists:
• 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 HousePanelists:• 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