April 11, 2002
Dart Center co-sponsors emotional injury program
The UW’s Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma is co-spon-soring the Community Program on Emotional Injury April 22–26.
The program will include three weeklong series designed to allow the public to address personal and collective trauma in the contexts of interpersonal violence, intimate violence, and the violence of war and political conflict. Nationally and internationally recognized poets, journalists, mental-health experts and victim advocates will participate in the program.
“As we still reel from Sept. 11, we hear daily about violence in Israel and other nations,” said Roger Simpson, a UW associate professor of communications and the director of the Dart Center. “These mass traumas serve to conceal many other traumas that confront people throughout the community. This event speaks to the emotional injuries, personal and collective, and ways that we can address that pain in the ways we speak and write.”
One featured event during the week will be the series, “Communicating Emotional Injury.” The daily 3:30 p.m. meetings will be in the Walker Ames Room of Kane Hall and will feature national and local writers in panel discussions about understanding emotional trauma and describing its effects accurately and sensitively.
Other series include “The Language of Emotional Injury,” which will feature poets and journalists speaking about how their writing has confronted and illuminated the experience of trauma; and a public symposium on emotional injury that will allow dialogue about the impact of trauma among writers, mental-health experts and the community.
All events at the program are free and open to the public. For more information call the Dart Center at 206-616-3223 or go to http://www.dartcenter.org on the Web.
