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1st Global Conference Trauma - Theory and Practice

Monday 14th March ? Wednesday 16th March 2011
Prague, Czech Republic

Call for Papers
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary
conference seeks to examine and explore issues
surrounding individual and collective trauma,
both in terms of practice, theory and lived
reality. Trauma studies have emerged from its
foundation in psychoanalysis to be a dominant
methodology for understanding contemporary events
and our reactions to them. Critics have argued
that we live in a culture of trauma. Repeated
images of suffering and death form our collective
and/or cultural unconscious. This inaugural
conference seeks in particular to explore the
relation between trauma, memory and identity, both
national and collective.

In addition to academic analysis, we welcome the
submission of case studies or other approaches
from those involved with its practice, such
as people in the medical profession and
therapists, victims of events which have resulted
in traumas on either an individual or mass scale,
journalists or authors of fiction whose work deals
with trauma.

Papers, reports, work-in-progress, workshops and
pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to
any of the following themes:

1. Public and Political Trauma
~ War and trauma, for example the Holocaust; the
bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and ongoing
conflicts, such as the Iraq War and the situation
in Afghanistan
~ Public disasters and trauma, e.g. responses to
the Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters;
school shootings; September 11th
~ Disease, public health and trauma ? aids, swine
flu, and fears of contagion

2. Personal and Individual Trauma
~ Bereavement
~ Murder and Assault
~ Domestic Violence
~ Child Abuse
~ Survivor guilt
~ Disability

3. Diagnosing and Treating Trauma
~ Psychotherapy, cognitive psychology and other
psychological approaches to treating victims of trauma
~ Psychiatry
~ Other medical approaches
~ non-medical approaches, for example, narrative
approaches, music, art

4. Theorising Trauma
~ Trauma and post colonialism
~ Memory and trauma
~ National identity and trauma
~ Trauma studies and psychoanalysis
~ Individual versus Collective trauma
~ Cultural trauma
~ Gender and trauma
~ The body and trauma
~ External and internal trauma

5. Representing Trauma
~ Affect,  trauma and art
~ Dramatizing trauma on screen and on stage
~ Media images: reality and fiction
~ literature and poetry
~ video games, violence and trauma
~ technology and trauma
~ reporting on trauma
~ the aesthetics and experience of trauma
~ fear, horror and trauma
~ Otherness and trauma

The Steering Group also welcomes the submission of
pre-formed panel proposals. 300 word abstracts
should be submitted by Friday 1st October
2010. All submissions are minimally double blind
peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is
accepted for the conference, a full draft
paper should be submitted by Friday 4th February
2011. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously
to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in
Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the
following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold,
italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and
answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do
not receive a reply from us in a week you
should assume we did not receive your proposal; it
might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to
look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs

Colette Balmain
Hub Leader (Horror), Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Independent Scholar
United Kingdom
E-mail: [email protected]

Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire, UK
E-mail: [email protected]

The conference is part of the 'At the Interface'
programme of research projects. It aims to bring
together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and exciting.

All papers accepted for and presented at this
conference will be eligible for publication in an
ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited
for development for publication in a themed hard
copy volume(s).

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/trauma/

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/trauma/call-for-papers/