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Yvette, photographed in Durban, South Africa by Patricia Evans for The Voices and Faces Project |
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Testimony
& Tikkun Olam
How the stories of survivors
are changing the movement
to end gender-based violence.
A Lecture/Photography Program
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
Skokie, IL
Sunday, November 1st •
2:00pm |
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Tikkun Olam, which literally translated means "heal the world," has come to connote social action and the pursuit of social justice. On November 1st, Anne K. Ream, the founder of The Voices and Faces Project and author of Lived Through This, a memoir of a multi country journey spent listening to survivors of gender-based violence, will consider the ways that testimony can break through ideological barriers, speak to the growing body of research that establishes links between sharing our stories and healing from trauma, and consider the ethics of story sharing in the digital age. The lecture will feature the photography of Patricia Evans. The response panel will include: Dr. Danny M. Cohen, author and Assistant Professor of Instruction at Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy; Dr. Galya Ruffer, Founding Director of the Center for Forced Migration Studies at the Buffett Institute for Global Studies, and Leslie Thomas, Founder, Art Works for Change.
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| Special thanks to our community partners : Art Works for Change · American Jewish World Service · The Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern University · Heartland Alliance Marjorie Kovler Center · Unsilence Project · Chicago-North Shore Chapter of Hadassah. |
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