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Nov. 18: Metropolitan New York UNIFEM Chapter Holds Panel Discussion at MMC
November 18, 2010
Date: Thursday, November 18
Location: Regina Peruggi Room, Marymount Manhattan College
Time: 6-6:30 p.m. – Registration and Networking; 6:30-8:00 p.m. – Panel Discussion; 8:00-8:30 p.m. – Audience Questions
Contact: Click here to RSVP by November 16. For more information, contact Rebecca Buchanan, Ph.D., director of Campus Ministry, (212) 774-0723 / rbuchanan@mmm.edu
Fiction has always been a powerful tool used to bring awareness to issues that plague society. As a vehicle, it brings the audience into a very intimate experience with the subject matter, to a point that that experience becomes very real to the audience member. But how "real" is the fictional experience? In an age of TV and Film, those fictional representations become the basis for educating a mass audience about a given topic matter. While shedding light on an issue is a great service to the cause, the media and entertainment industry walks a fine line between sensationalizing and being sensitive to maintaining the integrity of the issue.
The Metropolitan New York Chapter of the US National Committee for UNIFEM (now part of UN Women) has selected a dynamic group of experts, ranging from screenwriters and producers to lawyers and academics for the panel discussion, “How Violence Against Women is represented in TV & Film.” The panel seeks to discern fact from fiction in an effort to provide a deeper understanding of gender violence on a domestic and international level. Join us for what promises to be a powerful evening.
Panelists include John Colombo, former Ventura County District Attorney with history in criminal prosecution in cases dealing with domestic violence and sexual assault; Licha Nyiendo U.S. Attorney's Office Deputy Chief of the Civil Rights Unit ; Roselyn Myers, criminal justice editor and Professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Fordham University School of Law; and Randy Pearlstein, writer, Performer, and Professor of Film and Television writing at Rutgers University.
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