Online Talk
November 21, 2025
6:00–7:00 PM (CET)
Online via Zoom

Zoom Access:
Meeting ID: 640 4021 5836
Passcode: 506296

Guest Speaker

Professor Emeritus Edwina Pio
Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM), awarded by King Charles III for service to ethnic communities
Recipient of the Te Rangi Hiroa Medal, Duke of Edinburgh Fellowship, and Fulbright alumna
New Zealand’s first Professor of Diversity, Associate Fellow at Oxford University, and lecturer for Cambridge University’s Demystifying Diversity program.
Her global research explores intersections of faith, migration, and ageing.

Talk Title:

The Enigma of Silence: Toxic Violence and Migrant Women of Colour

Intersectional inequality, migration, gender, and ageing — loaded words encompassing awe, beauty, and unthinkable violence. In the fissures and cracks of our lives, are we bystanders or upstanders, nudging the system toward courageous everyday solutions?

Drawing on her experience as a woman scholar of colour and activist, Professor Pio explores the hidden realities of elder abuse, domestic violence, and the silences that both enslave and protect. She invites us to confront this “enigma of silence” — to move beyond neutrality toward a stance that is receptive, assertive, gracious, and audacious, one that brings hope and action to dismantle the toxicity surrounding many migrant women of colour.