8:00 am - Registration and Coffee (The Great Hall)

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9:30 am - War’s Other Casualties

Panel sponsored by The Canadian Press

Moderator: John Owen, founding Executive Producer, News Xchange and Visiting Professor, City University, London (UK).

Panellists:

• Dr. Anthony Feinstein, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto.
• Brian Kelly, CBC Television News cameraman.
• Ian Stewart

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11:30 am - The Cost of Bearing Witness

Panel sponsored CWA-SCA Canada

Moderator: John Owen

Panellists:

• Giselle Portenier, documentary filmmaker.
• Kathleen Kenna, former correspondent, Toronto Star.
• Sgt. Debbie Bodkin, Waterloo Regional Police Service.

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1:00 pm - Informal Lunch (The Great Hall)

Sponsored by CBC News

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• Chris Cramer, former head of CNN International and President, International News Safety Institute, Brussels.
• Rodney Pinder, Director, International News Safety Institute, Brussels.
• Ethan Baron, Reporter, The Province, Vancouver.
  

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• Dr. Alan Leschied, psychologist and professor, Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario.
• Karen Pierre, social worker, Trauma Program, London Health Sciences Centre.
• Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, University of Washington.

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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm - RECEPTION (THE GREAT HALL)

Words of welcome from University President, Dr. Paul Davenport, and Dean of the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Dr. Thomas Carmichael.

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9:00 am - Keynote: Dr. Anthony Feinstein, University of Toronto

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9:35 am - Building Awareness: the Impact of Trauma on Others

Moderator: Dr. Nick Dyer-Witheford, Associate Dean, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, The University of Western Ontario.

Presenters:

• Dr. Elana Newman, Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa.
  "The Impact of Mass Disaster Coverage on the Public''

• Linda Kay, Associate Professor of Journalism, Concordia University.
  "Help or Harm? The Impact of Press Coverage on a Community Experiencing Trauma"

• Sara B. Tiegreen, Doctoral Student in Clinical Psychology, University of Tulsa.
  " Fear and Perceptions of Risk"
  

Responder:

• Rodney Pinder, Director, International News Safety Institute, Brussels.

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11:15 am - REsistance & Recovery: What Can Journalists and Health Professionals Do?

Moderator: Keith Tomasek, Lecturer, Graduate Program in Journalism, The University of Western Ontario.

Presenters:

• Dr. Patrice Keats, Assistant Professor and Program Co-ordinator of Counselling Psychology, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University.
  "Secondary Traumatization in First-Responders: A Critical Ethnographic Study of Photojournalists and Journalists."
  
  
• Dr. Doug Underwood, Department of Communication, University of Washington.
  "Trauma, Journalism, and Fiction: An Historical-Conceptual Analysis of the Impact of Traumatic Experiences in the Lives ofFamous Journalist-Literary Figures."
  
  
• Robert Frank, Freelance Journalist & National Board Member, Canadian Association of Journalists; and Dr. Ross Perigoe, Professor of Journalism, Concordia University.
  "Informed Mutual Support: Options on Violence and Trauma from the Perspective of the Journalist."
  
  
• Dr. Charles Hays, School of Journalism, Thompson Rivers University.
  "Walking Mean Streets: Journalists and Adaption."
  

• George Hoff, Managing Editor, CBC Parliamentary Bureau; Co-Chair, Safety & Security Committee, North American Broadcasters Association; Dart Centre Ochberg Fellow, 2007.
  

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1:00 pm - INFORMAL LUNCH (THE GREAT HALL)

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2:00 pm - How Does Traumatization of Journalists Affect Coverage?

Moderator: Paul Benedetti, Lecturer, Graduate Program in Journalism, The University of Western Ontario.

Presenters:

• Dr. Elana Newman, Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa.
  "Occupational Health and Journalists."
  
  
• Dr. Carrie A. Rentschler, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University.
  "From Danger to Trauma: Affective Labour and the Discourse of Journalistics Witnessing."
  

Responders:

• Judy Jackson, documentary filmmaker.
• Scott Ferguson, Foreign Assignment Editor, CTV News. 

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3:45 pm - What Do We Tell the Next Generation?

Moderator: Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, University of Washington.

Presenters:

• Dr. Max Grubb, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Kent State University (co-author with Dr. Gretchen Dworznik). "Preparing for the Worst: Making A Case for Trauma Training in the Journalism Classroom."
  
• Linda Kay, Associate Professor, Department of Journalism, Concordia University.
  "Stimulation through Simulation."
  
• Dr. Meg Spratt, Associate Director for Academic Programs, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and Lecturer, University of Washington. "Trauma Journalism Education in the US."

Responder:

• Arnold Amber, Director, CWA/SCA Canada.

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5:30 pm - CONFERENCE CLOSE