Events
"Intended Consequences-Rwandan children born of Rape" subject of discussion, Oct. 28
The Woodrow Wilson School will host a public panel discussion titled "Intended Consequences-Rwandan Children Born of Rape" at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 28, in Bowl 016, Robertson Hall on the Princeton University Campus. This event is being held in conjunction with an exhibit in the Bernstein Gallery by the same name featuring the works of photographer Jonathan Torgovnik. The show will run from September 7 through November 13. A public reception will follow the discussion in the Gallery.
Panel discussants will include Jonathan Torgovnik, photographer; Carl Auerbach, Associate Professor of Psychology at Yeshiva University; and Charli Carpenter, an Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Jonathan Torgovnik’s photographs have been widely exhibited and published in numerous international publications, including Newsweek, Aperture, GEO, Sunday Times Magazine, and Stern, among others. He has been a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine since 2005, and is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography School in New York. In 2007, Torgovnik won the National Portrait Gallery’s Photographic Portrait Prize for an image from “Intended Consequences.” He is co-founder of the non-profit organization Foundation Rwanda. Torgovnik is the author of Bollywood Dreams, an exploration of the motion picture industry and its culture in India.
Carl Auerbach is a Professor of Psychology at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology of Yeshiva University and co-director with Dr. Louise Silverstein of the Yeshiva University fatherhood project, a research study of fathering from a multicultural perspective. In addition, he is the director of the International Center for Trauma Research and Treatment. He has published two books and many articles dealing with fatherhood, the psychology of trauma, and research methodology. With Dr. Silverstein he was awarded the year 2000 Distinguished publication award from the Association of Women in Psychology for their article in the American Psychologist titled “Deconstructing the Essential Father.”
Charli Carpenter joined the Department of Political Science at University of Massachusetts-Amherst in Fall 2008, after teaching for four years at University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. Her teaching and research interests include national security ethics, the laws of war, transnational advocacy networks, gender and political violence, war crimes, comparative genocide studies, humanitarian affairs and the role of information technology in human security. She is the author of “Innocent Women and Children: Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians,” and the editor of “Born of War: Protecting Children of Sexual Violence Survivors in Conflict Zones.” She has published numerous articles in journals and has served as a consultant for the United Nations. Dr. Carpenter's current research focuses on global agenda setting, investigating why certain issues but not others end up on the human security agenda.

