eric schwartz is a former us assistant secretary of state, now president of refugees international. camps in bangladesh just a couple of months ago. it is as bad as you can imagine. one of the most densely populated countries in the world having to accommodate a rapid influx of something like 650,000 refugees in miserable conditions. they came over during the rainy season. they are living in extremely challenging circumstances. it is as bad as you could possibly imagine, and the risks of communicable diseases are just overwhelming. and, in addition, the international appealfor the rohingya is tragically underfunded. it is a problem that merits so much more attention from international governments of the world. why do you think it is not getting it? well, that is a great question. it is tragic, because this is not one of those cases where we have the luxury of saying we did not know. 10 days after august 25 when the attacks started, my organisation accused the regime, the burmese, of crimes against humanity. many others have. the information is there. the government in ukraine, and r

and then -- all the way over there to my left is eric schwartz my colleague at columbia editorial director, and he's the editor for sociology and cognitive science books and running acquisition department worked at princeton university press so we have a lot of university presses represented here. so -- i just wanted to start by stating what is the university press? because some people don't know what makes it different from another sort of publisherrer. either a commercial trade publickish what publishes most of the fiction and general nonfiction you might read. but also how it differs from a commercial scholar publisher. first of all we're not for profit organization. all university presses are it shall that doesn't mean we're for a loss we don't try to incur a loss but not for a profit and we're not out to just sign out books that will earn money. for the organization -- secondly, we're situated within a university, in fact, university is our middle name. and so our goal our missions of the university in the mission of the university press are entwined in some way the university wants t