Thursday, 7 March 2024, 1:00-2:30PM EST / 8:00-9:30AM HST / 6:00-7:30PM GMT / 7:00-8:30PM CET & CMT / 8:00-9:30PM EET, IST & SAST
This International Center for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma (ICMGLT) webinar is held in anticipation of International Women’s Day to celebrate women’s achievement, raise awareness about discrimination and take action to drive gender parity. Three international multidisciplinary participants will review and reflect upon personal family/community histories of trauma, differing ways of emerging, expressing, learning from and overcoming their traumatic discrimination multigenerational histories, while continuing to successfully meet contemporary challenges.
Speakers:
Nasim Barghi
My grandmothers, both married before 10 and illiterate, faced a different era. Mom, with limited schooling, wed at 15 and became a homemaker. In contrast, the family aimed for my siblings and me to be doctors. However, I chose my path, becoming a nurse. Reflecting on the disparities with my grandmothers unveils our evolving family narrative that was made possible by my father’s education and enlightenment, opening doors to new possibilities for women in my family.
Irene Ochem
Listed as one of Nigeria’s 100 Most Inspiring Women, Irene Ochem is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF), an award-winning, pan-African organization dedicated to fostering women’s economic inclusion and empowerment through entrepreneurship support and development. With Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). AWIEF is a continental platform for driving inclusive economic transformation for women and works to close the gender gaps in entrepreneurship and innovation in Africa.
Simona Anozie
Granddaughter of Romani Austrian artist, writer, and activist Ceija Stojka (1933-2013), played a major role in the artist’s life. Simona represents the next generation whom Ceija Stojka wanted to educate about the beauty of Romani cultures and the horrors of their past under National Socialism. Simona has read her grandmother’s poems at exhibits and commemorations of the Romani genocide, and authored an essay on her grandmother.
Dr. Lorely French (Interpreter)
A Distinguished Professor of German at Pacific University, Oregon. She has published extensively on Ceija Stojka, including the first English translation of Stojka’s memoirs. She has co-curated exhibits at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York and, forthcoming, at Ebensee Museum, Austria. She received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to work with Carina Kurta (Ceija Stojka International Association) and Nuna Stojka (Stojka’s daughter-in-law), on Stojka’s notebooks.
Moderator:
Dr. Yael Danieli
A Clinical psychologist, traumatologist, victimologist and psychohistorian, Dr. Danieli is Founder and Executive Director of the International Center for the study, prevention and treatment of MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma; Director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children and Past-President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
