Leaving the Shadow of Pain: Responses to Trauma – Healing amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
IMPRI Special Lecture by Prof Doris Gray on Leaving the Shadow of Pain: Responses to Trauma – Healing amid the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Greetings from the Impact and Policy Research Institute (IMPRI), New Delhi!
On behalf of the Gender Impact Studies Center (GISC) at IMPRI, we invite you to a IMPRI #WebPolicyTalk – IMPRI Special Lecture on
Leaving the Shadow of Pain:
Responses to Trauma – Healing amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Details of the #WebPolicyTalk:
Date: January 04, 2021; Monday
Time: 6:00 PM IST/1:30 PM Berlin time
Platform: Zoom and Facebook live
Speaker:
Prof Doris Gray, Honorary Professor, Roskilde University, Denmark
Prof. Doris H. Gray directed the Hillary Clinton Center for Women’s Empowerment at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco from 2013-2019. Before that she taught at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, USA. Prior to becoming an academic, Dr Gray was a journalist and foreign correspondent in South and East Africa. She is now Honorary Professor at Roskilde University in Denmark.
Her books/publications include: Leaving the Shadow of Pain – a cross-cultural exploration of truth, trauma, reconciliation and healing. Berlin, Logos, 2020; with Sonneveld, Nadia (eds). Women and Social Change in North Africa: What counts as revolutionary? Cambridge University Press, 2018; Beyond Islamism and Feminism: Gender and Equality in North Africa. London, I.B. Tauris, 2013. Second revised edition, 2014; Muslim Women on the Move: Women in Morocco and France speak out. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, Lexington Books, 2008; “Who hears my voice today?”: Indirect Women Victims in Tunisia. International Center for Transitional Justice, New York, USA, November 2018. https://www.ictj.org/publication.
Chair:
Prof Govind Kelkar
Executive Director, Gendev Centre for Research and Innovation, Gurugram; Chairperson, GISC, IMPRI
Panellists:
Prof Smita Kumar, Assistant Professor, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco
Dr Nandini Murali, Suicide prevention and Mental Health Activist, Life Coach, Facilitator and Author
Dr Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Emeritus Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi
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About the Talk
Leaving the Shadow of Pain: Responses to Trauma – Healing amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Prof Doris Gray
Prof. Doris H. Gray shares her reflections on human responses to trauma especially when it is kept secret and on attempts at healing that transcend boundaries. She offers insights on how individuals recover from trauma, in particular when official procedures for redress and professional help are not available. She challenges conventional notions of forgiveness and reconciliation, which often put the pressure on victims to move forward. Most of all, Gray finds that victims’ efforts to come to terms with trauma are not disconnected, but are related across time, culture, religion and geography.
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