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  • Forgiveness and Exclusivity of Suffering

    PRESS RELEASE

    Fordham Psychology Associaiton
    113 W 60th Street
    New York, NY 10024
    201 941-2266
    E-mail: [email protected]


    Round table on Forgiveness
    10 AM - 12 noon
    and
    The Exclusivity of Suffering:
    Psychological and Spiritual Perspectives of Genocide

    Panel discussion
    On
    Saturday, May 15, 2004
    113 W 60th Street (Corner of 9th Avenue) 12th Floor Faculty Dining Room
    1pm – 4 pm

    This panel promises to be a breakthrough on "The Exclusivity of Suffering.”
    Our distinguished panelists, made up of acclaimed authors, academicians and
    mental health professionals, will explore various histories, and the apparent
    desire to create unique histories of suffering, its causes, and the impact it has
    on victims, descendants and the greater communities in which we live.
    During the last 50 years, the Holocaust has stood out as a reminding beacon
    to remind us of the greatest crimes against humanity: Genocide. But it has
    also over-shadowed, and often preempted, discussions and recognition of
    co-victims of Nazi atrocities and all other genocides. The Genocide of the Armenians is
    finally gaining recognition, but historian and advocates exclude mention of
    the Genocide of the Pontic and other Asia Minor Greeks and Assyrians, the
    co-victims of the same Genocide.
    African Americans and Native Americans have had some of the longest histories
    of both genocide and slavery, yet they have been, until recently, the least
    heard. A manufactured hierarchy of suffering has been established that has left
    those on the progressively lower rungs of this fabricated ladder struggling
    for recognition of their own histories.
    By accurately recording and acknowledging the history of each Genocide, we
    have a greater chance of recognizing the signs and symptoms of an imminent
    threat to human life. By being relieved of the struggle to be heard, scholars and
    activists may actually have the energy and focus to fulfill the promise of “
    Never again.”
    Panelists:
    Thea Halo, Author Not Even My Name: A true story of Genocide and survival, Ms
    Halo will speak on the “The Pontic and Asia Minor Greeks and Assyrians: the
    co-victims of the ‘Armenian Genocide.’”
    Dr. Henry Huttenbach, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Genocide Research, and
    Professor of Russian and East European History, City College of New York City,
    and will speak on: “When Genocide affirmation includes genocide denial.”
    John L. Bolling, MD, adult and child psychiatrist, and author of The Heart of
    Soul: An Afrocentric approach to Psychospiritual wholeness. Dr. Bolling will
    speak on the first genocides of the 20th Century in Africa, and Black Slavery
    as a form of genocide.
    Dr. Anie Kalayjian, Author of Disaster & Mass Trauma, Adj. Prof. of
    Psychology at Fordham University, Vice Chair of the UN DPI/NGO Executive Committee,
    President, Armenian American Society for Studies on Stress & Genocide.
    Marian Weisberg, Psychotherapist, Interviewer-Shoah Project. Video Survivor
    Testimony.
    Special guest: Ms. Zvart Joulhaian, Professional classical flutist

    For information: Ms. Halo [email protected] or Dr. Kalayjian
    [email protected]

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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