United Nations Battlestar Retrospective

According to Maureen Ryan at The Chicago Tribune, The United Nations in New York will host a retrospective of Battlestar Galactica, which will be moderated by Whoopi Goldberg.

"On March 17, there will be a "Battlestar" retrospective at the U.N. in New York and a panel discussion of how the show examined issues such as "human rights, children and armed conflict, terrorism, human rights and reconciliation and dialogue among civilizations and faith,"...

The "Battlestar" contingent on the panel will consist of executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick, as well as stars Mary McDonnell (who plays president Laura Roslin on the show) and Edward James Olmos (Admiral William Adama).

UN representatives on the panel are Radhika Coomaraswamy, special representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict; Craig Mokhiber, deputy director of the New York office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; and Robert Orr, assistant secretary-general for policy planning, executive office of the Secretary-General."

The event will be recorded and transcribed, and fans are being promised notification of the available content's release by SciFi representatives.