Hosted by the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Programme (SWWDTP) Memory Studies Research Cluster
The SWWDTP Memory Studies Research Cluster invites contributions for a workshop on trauma, memory and care – a workshop which aims to model a caring and careful environment for examining trauma and memory. We invite researchers and practitioners who work with trauma to present and discuss their research, and to explore how practices of collage and attentiveness can support this process. The workshop aims to encourage exchanges of knowledge around trauma between scholars and practitioners, while also developing practices of care as an integral part of working with trauma.
The workshop will consider individual, collective, historical and structural trauma, as well as related topics including violence, (in)justice, shock, disaster, suffering, time and victimhood. It will consider the role of trauma in the creation of broader social identities, and the ways in which trauma can be mediated, constructed, inherited, triggered and reproduced.
Possible topics for contributions include, but are not limited to:
- Historical and psychological trauma
- Cultural representations of trauma
- Therapeutic responses to trauma
- Collective and intergenerational trauma
- Healing
- The overstretching of trauma as a cultural metaphor
- Emotions of trauma: grief, resentment, anger, mourning
- Forms of justice
- Trauma and time
- Research methods for working with trauma
Researchers and practitioners from any discipline are invited to take part. We envisage presentations to be 15-20 minutes long, but we welcome other formats and lengths – please get in touch if you have any questions. It will also be possible to attend the workshop without presenting.
Abstracts (200 words) and a short bio (50 words) should be sent to memorystudiessw@gmail.com by 20th February 2023.
It is also possible to attend without presenting – you can book a place here: <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trauma-memory-and-care-tickets-519628531927>.