International conference Leuven

PROGRAM THURSDAY NOVEMBER 23, 2023

8.30
REGISTRATION

9.00
‘GETTING STARTED’
By Pascale Franck, expert gender-based violence, Department of Justice and Enforcement and vice-president EFJCA and Dries Wyckmans, department head gender-based violence, Department of Justice and Enforcement (Belgium)

9.15
‘A WARM WELCOME’
By professor emeritus Ivo Aertsen, Leuven Institute of Criminology, KU Leuven (Belgium)

9.30
‘WHAT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVORS WANT YOU TO KNOW’
By Eva Verween, trauma therapist at Elpida (Belgium)

10.15
‘IN CONTROL: DANGEROUS RELATIONSHIPS AND HOW THEY END IN MURDER’
By professor Jane Monckton-Smith, expert in coercive control in relationships and Susan Haile, expert in intimate homicide (United Kingdom)

11.00
TIME FOR COFFEE

11.30
‘NON-FATAL STRANGULATION’
By prof. dr. Catherine White: Medical Director of the Institute for Addressing Strangulation & the Sexual Offence Medicine, Lead for the Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine (United Kingdom)

12.15
LUNCH

13.00
‘RISK ASSESSMENT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE FLEMISH FAMILY JUSTICE CENTERS’
By Dr. Anne Groenen, researcher, UCLL and Linc, Eveline De Wree, strategic coordinator FJC’s Antwerp, Department of Justice and Enforcement and Nienke Scholten, advisor to the police and prosecutor’s office at Department of Justice and Enforcement (Belgium)

14.00
IN-DEPTH SESSIONS

1. ‘Coercive control, a Belgian definition’ (English, streaming provided)
   By Marie Denis, clinical psychologist, Institute for the Equality of Women and Men (Belgium)
2. ‘The Science of Hope. A workshop about science and happiness’ (English, max. 24 people)
   By Davy Simons, Hope-dealer, City of Antwerp (Belgium)
3. ‘Child to parent violence’ (Dutch)
   By Willem Beckers, systemic psychotherapist at Interactie-Academie and Yana Demeyere, PHD researcher at the VUB, University of Brussels (Belgium)

15.15
TIME FOR COFFEE

15.45-17.00
IN-DEPTH SESSIONS

1. ‘The role and approach of the police and the public prosecutor’s office within the Family Justice Center’ (Dutch)
   By Nienke Scholten and Valerie Swennen, advisors to the police and prosecutor’s office at Department of Justice and Enforcement (Belgium)
2. ‘The Science of Hope. A workshop about science and happiness’ (Dutch, max. 24 people)
   By Davy Simons, Hope-dealer, City of Antwerp (Belgium)
3. ‘Child to parent violence’ (English, streaming provided)
   By Willem Beckers, systemic psychotherapist at Interactie-Academie and Yana Demeyere, PHD researcher at the VUB, University of Brussels (Belgium)

17.30-19.00
NETWORK DRINK