Wednesday 26th February 2014
Venue: Moot Court Room, Kramer Law Building.
08h30-08h45: Registration
08h45-09h00: Opening Address UCT Deputy Vice Chancellor Transformation Prof Crain Soudien.
Session Chair: Mr. Richard Freedman Director Cape Town Holocaust Centre
09h00-09h45: What is Intergenerational Trauma? How do we address it? And Introduction to the Grossrhursdorf apology. Cal Volks. Director HAICU.
09h45 -10h30: The History of the rise of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Ms. Marlene Silbert and Ms.Tracey Peterson Cape Town Holocaust Centre (to be confirmed). Historical and Jewish Studies perspective
10h30 – 10h45: Tea
10h45–11h45: Experiences of a representative of a descendant of bystanders from Nazi Germany. Pastor Norbert Littig. Theological Perspective
Pastor Norbert Littig is a German theologian who spent 25 years researching what happened to a Jewish family in Grossrohrsdorf, East Germany and led a movement in the town to achieve reconciliation through piecing together memories from German bystanders. He is active in school exchanges that promote peace between Germany and Israel. He is visiting South Africa for two weeks in February 2014.
11h45 -12h45: Experiences of a descendant of Nazi perpetration. Prof Ken Wald University of Florida
Personal Perspective.
Kenneth D. Wald is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and the Samuel R. "Bud" Shorstein Professor of American Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Florida.
12h45-13h30: Discussion
13h30–14h00: Lunch
Session Chair: Ms Gabi Sulcas
14h00–14h30: Curriculum Interventions around Reconciliation in Nazi Germany: Recommendations for education around South African apartheid. Ms. Cal Volks and Ms. Stella Kyobula- Mukoza, Project Officer at HAICU. Current Transformation Education Research Experiences and Perspectives
14h30–15h10: Tali Nates Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre. Healing of second and third generation survivors through uncovering archives in several case studies
Archiving and Memorialisation Perspective
15h10–15h45: The relationship between reconciliation and the prevention of violence. Guy Lamb The South African Violence Initiative Integrated Studies around Violence Perspectives
15h45 -16h15: Intergenerational Trauma, Attachment Trauma and Disability. Reinette Popplestone
16h15- 16h45: Discussion and Closure
Thursday 27th February 2014
Venue: Moot Court Room, Kramer Law Building
08h30-08h45: Arrival
08h45–09h15: Keynote Ms Glenda Wildschut. Intergenerational Trauma and Higher Education
Session Chair: Dr. Sean Field, UCT History Department
09h15 – 10h00: The Political theory of Transitional Justice. Mr Jolobe, UCT Politics Department.
Political Perspective
10h00-10h30: Over weighted hope – using trauma theory to understand the unspeakable burdens of the ‘born free’. Dr. Juliet Rogers. teaches in Criminology in the School of Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, and is Adjunct Professor at Griffith Law School, Queensland. She is currently an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow undertaking a 4 year fellowship to examine the ‘Quality of Remorse’ after periods of political and military conflict
10h30 -10h45: Tea
10h45 -11h15: The Politics and Psychology of Second Generation Memory: Exploring Life Narratives of Young South Africans from Different Locations in Kwa-Zulu Natal. T Frankish (Wits University; Vrije University)
Psychological Perspective
11h15-11h45: Are they really “Born Free”? Reports from 3 studies on how Living with HIV at UCT (conducted in 2003, 2006 and 2012) intersects with Intergenerational Trauma, Race, Class, Language and Sexual Orientation. Cal Volks
11h45-12h15: Instead of Catalysts for Hope and Change, Universities set Students up to Repeat Cycles of Poverty and Failure: Psychological Redress at Institutions of Learning Allaingary Naicker UCT Student Wellness Psychological Services.
Psychological Perspective
12h15–13h00: Discussion
13h00–13h30: Lunch
Session Chair: Mr. Zwane UCT Council: Transformation Interventions that take account of these issues at UCT
Umbrella Transformation Services Perspectives
13h30–14h00: Video about UCT students in need and interviews with UCT-Financial AID; Mentorship prog. UCT-First year experience UCT and DELL Development Office Programme. S Abrahams and L Reddy
(OVC Transformation Committee)
14h00-14h30: F Botha. Experiences from The Mediation Programme encountering intergenerational trauma and addressing it.
14h30-15h00: Prof. Jaco Barnard-Naude Private Law. Reflections on Restitution: The Poetics and Legal Theory and Philosophy of Justice.
15h00-16h00: Discussion and Closure.
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