Geneva-Kabul 1939: two Swiss women on the road to peace

ASERI is pleased to invite you to the photographic exhibition:

Geneva-Kabul 1939: two Swiss women on the road to peace

2-25 March 2022
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Largo Gemelli, 1 |  MILAN
Courtyard of Honor

Forty photographs tell the story of the journey undertaken in 1939by Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach, two young Swiss journalists and writers, both already protagonists of investigations and reportages in various countries. On a long and adventurous drive from Geneva to Kabul, they have to report for major newspapers and magazines. Their experience is also a spiritual escape from a barbarized Europe that, after the massacres of the First World War and the advent of totalitarianism, Nazism is dragging into the tragedy of the Second World War.
The theme of the photographic exhibition reminds us that, while Europe was plunging into the Second World War, two women embarked, alone, on a journey to Afghanistan in search of hope for peace. An incredible reversal of today's common perspective and stereotypes about Europe, Afghanistan, women's rights, peace and war.
The exhibition is organized by ASERI, in partnership with the Consulate General of Switzerland in Milan and the Federico Peirone Center in Turin, with the collaboration of the Lombardy Region. 

The exhibition will be presented during the round table:

What prospects and hopes for the Afghan people after the Western military withdrawal?

March 2, 2022 | 5.30 p.m.
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Largo Gemelli, 1 | MILAN
Pius XI Audience Hall | G127

Speakers:
Gastone BRECCIA, Lecturer at the University of Pavia
Sabrina DELLAFIOR, Consul General of Switzerland in Milan
Paolo GIROLA, Federico Peirone Center of the Archdiocese of Turin
Soraya MALEK, Princess of Afghanistan
Francesca MANNOCCHI, Freelance journalist
Rossella MICCIO, President of Emergency
Vittorio Emanuele PARSI, ASERI Director

Remote interventions are also expected by:
Caroline HANCOCK-EBNER, Programme Manager Afghanistan, Federal Department of International Foreign Affairs (FDFA)
Gianfranco PETRUZZELLA, Minister Plenipotentiary and Special Envoy for Afghanistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI)

The round table aims to help keep the spotlight on Afghanistan from being turned off after the withdrawal of the last Western troops. People who have known, in different ways, the Afghan reality and its peoples bring their experience, against the background of a question that unites them: not to let a country go adrift. Do not allow our hearts to contribute, with indifference, to the umpteenth tragedy that is taking place in Afghanistan.

Participation is free, upon registration (mandatory). 
Registrations are closed, they will close at 10.00 am on the day of the event.

Access with REINFORCED GREEN PASS .
For the safety of the public, speakers and staff, access with an FFP2 mask is strongly recommended.

It is advisable to arrive in advance in order to carry out the necessary checks.