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Campus Rape and Sexual Assault

Kirby Dick’s Oscar-nominated documentary “The Hunting Ground” is shaping the current public debate around campus rape, the statistics about which are shocking — one in five college women is sexually assaulted, yet only a fraction of these crimes are reported and even fewer result in punishment of the perpetrators. The 92nd Street Y hosts a screening of the film and a panel discussion featuring five women with important things to say about this topic. Investigative journalist Marie Brenner, a writer-at-large at Vanity Fair, moderates a conversation that features Maria Cuomo Cole, the executive producer of “The Invisible War,” a 2012 investigative documentary exploring the epidemic of rape and sexual violence in the US military; Sofie Karasek, who last year was among 31 women students at the University of California at Berkeley who charged the university botches assault complaints; Regina Kulik Scully, the founder and CEO of the Artemis Rising Foundation, which works to develop culturally transformative media, education, and healing projects; and Amanda de Cadenet, a photographer and former actress who hosts a late night Lifetime Channel talk show. Lexington Ave. at 92nd St., Buttenwieser Hall. Nov. 22, 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $32-$46; $15 for those 35 and younger at 92y.org.