speakers - SurLaLune Fairy Tales

SPEAKERS
Ana de Neves Rodrigues
Institute of Traditional Literature
Studies, Nova University of
Lisbon, Portugal
Iwona Guść
PhD, fellow at Lichtenberg-Kolleg,
University of Goettingen and
associate researcher at the NIOD
Institute for War, Holocaust and
Genocide Studies
Germany
Cristina Maria Gonçalves
Pereira
Instituto Politécnico de Castelo
Branco, Portugal
Sónia Maria de Matos Faria
2012-2015 - PhD Student in Languages,
Literatures and Cultures at FCSH-UNL
(Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da
Universidade Nova de Lisboa) with the thesis
title: “The evidences of the feminine on the
Thousand and One Nights’ stories”.
2012 - Master in Local and Regional Studies
at the University of Madeira.
2009 - Bachelor in Cultural Sciences at the
University of Madeira.
Studied Dutch literature and culture at the
Polish university in Wrocław. She conducted
her PhD research at the department of Arts,
Culture and Media in Groningen (the
Netherlands) and in 2012 defended her
dissertation on Polish post war film history.
After her PhD she worked as a postdoctoral
researcher at The NIOD Institute for War,
Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Currently
she is working on the project on Anne Frank
Diaries at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg in
Göttingen.
PhD in Psychology;
Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco
CeADIn – Centro de Aprendizagem
e Desenvolvimento da Infância
Med in Special Education
Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco
Instituto Politécnico de Castelo
Branco, Portugal
Gabriel Zoran
Prof. of Hebrew and Comparative
Literature at the University of
Haifa, Israel
Professor of Hebrew and Comparative
Literature at the University of Haifa, Israel.
Masin fields: Ancient Greek literature, theory
of literature, German literature, modern
Hebrew litewrature, theory and history of
translation.
Published also two volumes of fiction and
several literary translations.
Recent book: Bodies of Speech: Text and
textuality in Aristotle, Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2014.
Fiction: Apple, Pear and Cinamon, five fairy
tales [Hebrew], Shoken, Tel Aviv, 1995.
Ken Land
Founder and Clinical Director, The
Counseling Center of Ann Arbor
USA
Marie Thompson
Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private
practice in Ann Arbor, Adjunct Professor
at The University of Michigan and a
Lecturer at The Michigan Psychoanalytic
Institute
USA
Johs. Nørregaard Frandsen
Prof. and head of the Hans Christian
Andersen Center, University of Southern
Denmark
Jacob Bøggild
Prof. The Hans Christian Andersen
Center, University of Southern Denmark
Gerdi Tuender
Dramatherapist, registered Mdt, Certified
practitioner
the Netherlands
Founder and Clinical Director, The Counseling
Center of Ann Arbor, a comprehensive
outpatient mental health and substance
abuse clinic. Downtown Ann Arbor,
Michigan, USA since 1983. Seven years
University
Hospital,
adult
inpatient,
experience. He accumulated invaluable first
hand knowledge of mental illness through
daily close contact with patients, their loved
ones, their illnesses and their struggles for
relief from the deep pain they were
experiencing. Over 30 years outpatient
experience including group, individual,
couple and family therapy. Hundreds of
hours of post masters institute and workshop
training. Over fifty regional/national
presentations on Storytelling Therapy.
Trained psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in
private practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan
(USA). She is also an Adjunct Professor at The
University of Michigan and a Lecturer at The
Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute where she
has taught advanced technique, basic
concepts of psychodynamic theory and
gender theory.
Rachel Zoran
PhD, Hebrew and Comparative
Literature at the University of Haifa
Israel
Yehudit Silverman
Professor in the Creative Arts Therapies
Department of Concordia University,
Montreal, Quebec, Dance/Movement
Therapist, a registered Drama
Therapist and documentary filmmaker
Canada
Professor and head of the Hans Christian
Andersen Center, University of Southern
Denmark.
Professor, The Hans Christian Andersen
Center, University of Southern Denmark.
Author of a monograph on the interaction
between the arabesque and the allegorical
mode in the fairy tales and stories of Hans
Christian Andersen and editor and co-editor
of and contributor to several anthologies
about Andersen.
In 2008 she wrote a book titled Working with
Fairy
Tales in Dramatherapy
and
Psychodrama. This book is based on 25 years
of experience with dramatherapy and
psychodrama for clients with a personality
disorder in a clinical setting.
The last ten years she is a teacher at the HAN
(Nijmegen, the Netherlands) and teaches
‘Methods in Dramatherapy’. She also has a
therapeutical practice for therapy and
supervision.
Shai Karta Schwartz
Baobab Center For Young Survivors in
Exile” in London, teacher
Israel
Bibliotherapist,
Lecturer,
Therapist,
Superviser
1987-2013 Chair of the Bibliotherapy
Training Program, Haifa University, Faculty
of education.
In 2004, she produced and directed the film,
The Story Within: myth and fairytale in
therapy that was based on her 20 years of
clinical experience working in hospitals
where she developed an innovative
therapeutic approach, and has been
screened internationally at conferences,
Universities, and on television.
Her second film was The Hidden Face of
Suicide, that is an award winning
documentary entering the world of suicide
survivors and telling their remarkable
stories. The film has been in featured in
several theatres in the Uk and in Montreal.
as well as film festivlas and conferences. She
is the recipient of a Federal, Provincial, nad
University grants, and the 2009 NADT
Research Award. She has published articles
and book chapters, and presents her work
internationally. Yehudit is committed to the
arts as a method for inquiry, creative
expression, therapy, and social change.
Originally from professional theater and
storytelling, studied group facilitation,
education
,
performance
art
therapy,psychodrama and gestalt and
began integrating storytelling and role play
in models of intervention in dialogue and
therapy. For the last 18 years beside his
practice in Israel, has been cooperating with
Sheila Melzak from the “Baobab Center For
Young Survivors in Exile”in London in
therapeutic work with young asylum
seekers. Teaches a course in „Storytelling,
Drama and Puppets as Tools in Therapy and
Education”.