International Center on Human Responses to Social Catastrophes

International Center on Responses to Catastrophes


		EVENTS

		ICORC EVENTS - FALL 2003 TURNING TRAUMA INTO ART: Creative languages of injury and resiliency. October 29,2003. 4.30 - 9.30 p.m. The UIC International Center on Responses to Catastrophes, in collaboration with the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the University of Washington (www.dartcenter.org ) will host a mini conference in the Red Lacquer Room, Palmer House Hilton - 17 East Monroe Street. The conference will feature presentations and performances by acclaimed scholars, poets, writers, photographers, and research psychiatrists. There will also be open questions and discussion. The mini conference is part of the 19th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. www.istss.org October 29, 2003. Location: The Palmer House Hilton, 17 E. Monroe St., Chicago. Turning Trauma and Recovery into Art: Creative Languages of Injury and Resiliency Reception at 4:30 p.m. Presentations and dialogue 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Pictures of the Event *Featuring:* Exiled South African Poet, Dennis Brutus; Bosnian Author, Aleksandar Hemon; Northwestern University Poet, Reginald Gibbons; Columbia University Oral Historian, Mary Marshall Clark; UIC Researcher and Psychiatrist, Stevan Weine; Photojournalist, Joseph Rodriguez; Author, Migael Scherer. October 30 and 31: Political Violence, Trauma and Narrative 8:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. A Mixed-Methods Study of Refugee Families Joining Multi-family Groups 1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. An Ethnographic Study of Teenage Refuge: Life after Wartime for Bosnian Teens in Chicago 4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. For further information see www.dartcenter.org, www.istss.org, call ( 312 ) 355-5407, or e-mail the Regional Coordinator of the ISTSS in Chicago , Stevan Weine, MD, smweine @uic.edu or Associate Director of ICOR C., Vaughn Fayle, vfayle@uic.edu