South African Institue For Traumatic Stress
18 a Gill Street
Observatory
Johannesburg
Phone: (+27 11) 648 7376
saits@saits.org.za
Seminars 2007

Date Day Speaker Topic
23rd February Friday Dr. Merle Friedman ISTSS Feedback
23-Mar Friday Craig Higson-Smith Working with Torture and Exile: A Toxic Combination (Theme: 21st March Human Rights Day)
20-Apr Friday Speaker to be confirmed To be confirmed
16-May Wednesday Speaker to be confirmed To be confirmed (Children or the Effect of Trauma on Development) (Theme 7-11 May Child Protection Week, 11th May Nat. Children’s Day)
23-May Wednesday Speaker to be confirmed Trauma & Journalism (Theme 3rd May – World Press Freedom Day)
20th June Wednesday Marivic Garcia CSVR To be confirmed (Theme: World Refugee Day)
22-Jun Friday Marilyn Davis Shulman Drugs & Youth (Theme 16th June – Nat Youth Day, 26th June – Int Day against drug abuse & illicit drug trafficking)
25-Jul Wednesday Dr. Merle Friedman To be confirmed Treatment Strategies for PTSD & ASD (Theme Mental Illness Awareness Month)
27-Jul Friday To be confirmed To be confirmed (Theme Mental Illness Awareness Month)
29-Aug Wednesday Lisa Vetten Femicide Discussion or Women’s perspective on surviving Trauma/ Women and Trauma (Theme 9th August –Nat. Women’s Day)
31-Aug Friday Anu Pillay Women’s perspective on surviving Trauma/ Women and Trauma (Theme 9th August – Nat. Women’s Day)
19-Sep Wednesday Tracey Farber To be confirmed (Theme 21st September-Int Day of Peace)
21-Sep Friday Nomfundo Mogapi Ex-Combatants as Peace Builders (Theme 21st September-International Day of Peace)
17-Oct Wednesday To be confirmed WORLD TRAUMA DAY
24-Oct Wednesday To be confirmed Trauma and Schools (Theme 5th October –World Teachers Day)
26-Oct Friday To be confirmed To be confirmed (Theme17th October - World Trauma Day)
21-Nov Wednesday Willem Stiglingh Trauma and Physical Disability Resulting from MVA’s (Theme 17th November - World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, 3rd December - Int. Day for Disabled Persons)
23-Nov Friday Melvyn Freeman HIV &AIDS & Trauma (Theme 1st Dec - World AIDS Day)

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