International Center on Responses to Catastrophes
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The International Center on  Responses to  Catastrophes (ICORC) was established in 2002 to advance scholarship and services in an area of contemporary importance for the city of Chicago and the world. Its primary mission is to promote multidisciplinary research and scholarship that will contribute to improved helping efforts for those affected by catastrophes. MORE...

Located in Chicago, the ICORC is a cross-campus unit organized through the Department of Psychiatry and the Office of the Vice Chancellor of Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Book Just Published:

Testimony after Catastrophe Narrating the Traumas of Political Violence

By Stevan Weine
 

 

Past Events

December 8th 2005

Roundtable Discussion on     "The Ambiguities of Protection: Gender, Displacement and some Place Like Home." 

November 8th 2005

Roundtable Discussion on Building Community Mental Health Services in Post-War Kosovo

Sept  2005

Promoting Resilience in Refugee and Immigrant Families Conference

June 2005

Houses of Memory and Expectations  (HOMES) Opening Teen Refugee's Voices and Worlds

May 2005

Qualitative Research in Global Health and Catastrophe

February 16, 2005

Roundtable Discussion on: Humanities and Intervention A Retreat from Space and Time: The Figure of the Refugee Youth

January 5, 2005

Roundtable Discussion on:     HIV Risk Behaviors Among Severely Ill Latinas

Wednesday, December 1, 2004 

Roundtable Discussion on: Developing International Research Initiatives: Stories from the field of global health

September through  October 2004

H. O. M. E. S.                          Teen Refugee Exhibit
North Lakeside Cultural Center
6219 North Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, IL 60660
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July  2004

Read about ICORC teenage refugee summer camp: Houses of Memories and Expectations (Homes)-Pictures

July 2004

Global Network of Researchers on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa (GNR-MENA)
Satellite Meeting

June 21 through July 1, 2004

Houses of Memories and Expectations: Opening Teen Refugees' Voices and Worlds
A summer arts camp for the college bound refugee youth living in Chicago where the youth will feel free to express themselves and share their ideas through field trips, art, and other fun-filled activities.  It's free and there are scholarship prizes. MORE



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