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This International Center for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma psychohistorical webinar is held in commemoration of the 37th anniversary of Ukraine’s Chernobyl disaster of 26 April 1986. Ukrainian and international multidisciplinary experts will share their own experiences, examine cumulative and intergenerational effects of this devastating event and its aftermath and reflect on lessons they have learned. This timely discussion will explore parallels between and meanings of Chernobyl, among other multigenerational past tragedies, and current threats in Ukraine and around the world.
Speakers
Stanislav Tabachnikov, PhD
Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor, academician and president of public organizations ‘National Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine’ ‘International the Academy of Education’ and Science’ and the ‘Association of Psychotherapists and Psychoanalysts’ of Ukraine and Acting President of the International Academy of Education and Science. Prof. Tabachnikov is the Director of the State Institution Research Institute of Psychiatry of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.
Ian Fairlie
An independent consultant on radioactivity in the environment matters to the European Parliament, local and regional governments, NGOs and private individuals, living in London, UK, Dr. Fairlie has studied radiation and radioactivity at least since the Chernobyl accident in 1986. Following a degree in radiation biology from Bart’s Hospital, London, his doctoral studies at Imperial College, London and (briefly) Princeton University, US, concerned the radiological hazards of nuclear fuel. His areas of interest are the radiation doses and risks arising from the radioactive releases at nuclear facilities.
Mary Olson
https://www.genderandradiation.org
Founder, Gender and Radiation Impact Project. She served as Staff Biologist and Senior Radioactive Waste Policy Analyst at US-based Nuclear Information and Resource Service, a national non-government organization until her retirement in 2019. She has continued her work as an educator on harm from exposure to ionizing radiation and an independent finding she made in 2011 that there is disproportionate harm to female bodies compared to males. Mary has advised the States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and is a Member of ICMGLT’s Advisory Council.
Oksana Yakushko
A licensed psychologist, psychoanalyst, scholar, professor, and consultant based in Santa Barbara, California, USA, Oksana grew up in Kyiv under Soviet rule through the early 1990s. Focusing her clinical and scholarly work on immigrant and refugee mental health, she currently supports efforts to aid Ukrainian against Russian aggression. Oksana lived through the Chornobyl disaster and its Soviet mismanagement in 1986 in Kyiv as a child. Many of her ancestors were directly influenced by century-long Russo-Soviet violence, including the Holodomor and the Gulags.
Luba Lukova, Visual Artist
Internationally renowned, New York-based Luba Lukova is regarded as one of the most original image-makers working today. Whether by using an economy of line, color and text to pinpoint essential themes of humanity or to succinctly visualize social commentary, her work is undeniably powerful and thought-provoking. Her most recent exhibitions were titled Designing Justice at National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Protest! Gestalten Shaping Protest at Museum Ulm in Germany.
Moderator
Dr. Yael Danieli
Founder and Executive Director, International Center for the study, prevention and treatment of MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma; Director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children; Past-President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
