'Hunting Ground' producer to join discussion on campus sexual assault

11:10 a.m., March 9, 2015--A panel discussion, “Campus Sexual Assault: What Is the Problem, and What Should We Do About it?” will be held at the University of Delaware from 3:30-5 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, in Room 100 Kirkbride Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Panelists will include Amy Ziering, producer of The Hunting Ground, a documentary about campus sexual assault that premiered this year at the Sundance Film Festival and will be shown at UD at 8 p.m. Wednesday.

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The screening in Mitchell Hall will be followed by a question-and-answer session with Ziering and by a reception. The film is also free and open to the UD community, but tickets are required; they remain available at the Trabant Box Office, limited to two per University ID.

Panelists for the afternoon discussion are:

• Ziering, who with director Kirby Dick also made the 2012 Academy Award-nominated documentary The Invisible War about sexual assaults in the U.S. military;
• Angela Seguin, coordinator of UD’s Sexual Offense Support (SOS) at Student Wellness and Health Promotion, and Student Wellness and Health Promotion;
• Sage Carson, UD student activist;
• Kathleen Turkel, assistant professor of women and gender studies at UD; and
• Amy Wax, Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

The panel discussion will be moderated by Richard Hanley, professor of philosophy at UD. The event is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy.