The Center on Violence and Recovery

UPCOMING Events

For more information on events, contact Yael Shy at yael.shy@nyu.edu. 

 

Vienna’s "Kristallnacht": 70 Years On

Sunday, November 23, 2008 from 10:00am-6:00pm

Yeshiva University Museum at Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, New York 10011

To RSVP for this event, please send an email to yael.shy@nyu.edu.

Join us for a day-long international colloquium as we mark the 70th Anniversary of “Kristallnacht” – Vienna’s “Night of Broken Glass,” when lives were lost and synagogues, businesses, and families were destroyed at the hands of the Nazis. This day of reflection also invites a reexamination of the writing of history and an attempt to reconcile the past with contemporary discoveries and scholarship. This colloquium will address Vienna’s culpability, the Jewish Community’s own moral obligations of the time, the 2000 discovery of the Jewish Community Archive, and the transmission of trauma across generations. The conference will conclude with a discussion of the lingering effects of “Kristallnacht” and a look to the future for new ways to heal these long-standing wounds and interrupt patterns of their transmission. FULL DETAILS.

• Panel Discussions
  “Vienna: Continuity and Change”
  “Trauma Across Time”
  “Global Contexts: Continuity and Change”
• A Documentary Film (Work In Progress): Truth Be Told
  Controversial author and activist Linda Mills pries open the darkly guarded doors of history as she takes her unforgettable but reluctant family back to Vienna, where they fled the Nazis in 1938. Obsessively following a trail of stunning revelations, she uncovers an astonishing array of collaborators, victims, perpetrators and unlikely heroes in a startlingly humorous adventure from Vienna to Hollywood.
  http://tbtmovie.com/
• Speakers
  Featuring some of the foremost scholars, archivists, documentary filmmakers and global changemakers working across a multiplicity of disciplines, including Viennese history, Holocaust studies, law, education, and trauma and recovery.
  Complete list of featured presenters.
• Refreshments and lunch will be served, and a wine & cheese reception will close the day.

The colloquium is sponsored by Cardozo School of Law’s Jacob Burns Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, Program in Law and Humanities & NYU’s Center on Violence and Recovery.

 

PAST Events

October 28, 2008
Celebration of Violent Partners: A Breakthrough Plan for Ending the Cycle of Abuse, a new book by Linda G. Mills: Included a selection of readings, showing clips from the award-winning program she co-founded in Arizona, and taking questions from the audience.

• Violent Partners: A radical new take on the crisis of intimate abuse, Violent Partners argues that as a culture we misunderstand the root causes and basic effects of abuse, and until that changes there is no hope of fixing the problem. Dr. Linda Mills challenges assumptions, tears down myths, and offer solutions, all the while telling riveting stories of couples who have conquered violence in their relationships. In Violent Partners, she describes several programs that hold promise for addressing intimate abuse, including two nationally known and groundbreaking treatment programs- Peacemaking Circles and Healing Circles. Controversial, provocative, and accessible, Violent Partners is unlike any other book on abuse and relationships, and highlights in great detail the complexities of violence through the stories of men and women who have acknowledged their abuse and sought to do something about it. This is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand violence in their own relationship, friends and family members of victims and abusers, and legal and mental health practitioners looking for a new and valuable approach to treating couples in crisis. http://www.violentpartners.com

April 16, 2008
Panel Discussion and Release of Study Findings:  The NYPD Experience: The Promise of Peer Support. With opening remarks from New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.
pdf | audio (coming soon)

May 22-25, 2006
International Study Group: Recent Trends in Intimate Violence Intervention hosted by the University of Haifa and NYU Center on Violence and Recovery

March 29, 2006
Panel Discussion: Minding the Gap - What are the Holes in Services for People Affected by Intimate Abuse and How Can We Close Them?

March 2, 2006
Panel Discussion: Tell Me What a Victim Looks Like - The Problem with a One-Treatment-Fits-All Approach to Intimate Abuse

February 16, 2006
Panel Discussion: Bad to the Bone? - Rethinking Offender Recovery and Rehabilitation

November 8, 2005
Book Launch: Martin Guggenheim's What's Wrong With Children's Rights (Harvard University Press, 2005)