Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers

2nd Global Conference

Wednesday 21st March – Saturday 24th March 2012
Prague, Czech Republic

The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme

Wednesday 21st Match 2012
From 12.30
Conference Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Colette Balmain

14.00
Session 1: Expressing Trauma
Chair: Simon Bacon

Reading for the Body: Reinforcing Somatic Reality in the Study of Trauma
Will Bradford

Cloth, Memory and Mourning
Beverly Ayling-Smith

Drawn to Dialogue: A Case Study Describing Non-Medical Approaches to Overcoming Personal Trauma Using Artist-Led Action and Interaction in the Public Space of a Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Michèle Fuirer

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2: Traumatic Re/Visions and Violations
Chair: Emily Ashman

Is a Pixel Massacre still a Massacre? The Morality of Actively Engaging in the Traumatic in Videogames.
Mark Kirby-Hirst

Trauma and the Vampire: The Violence of the Inescapable Moment in Let Me In (Matt Reeves: 2010)
Simon Bacon

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

Thursday 22nd March 2012
09.30
Session 3: Performing Trauma
Chair: Nancy Potter

“Why can’t I stop looking?” A Therapeutic and Performative Debate on Performed Trauma.
Oliver Bray and Peter Bray

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: Trauma on the Big Screen
Chair: Michèle Fuirer

Remembering Israel’s Longest War: Filming the Lebanese Quagmire
Jeanne E. Clark

William Kentridge: Animating the Unrepresentable: The Horrific Personal and Collective Traumas of the Apartheid Regime
Beschara Karam

Remembering Kwangju: The Cultural Complex of Han in A Petal
Emily Ashman

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5a: Trauma and Sexual Violence
Chair: Bridget Haylock

A Puerto Rican Trauma: 1978
Bridget Kevane

‘Pinpricks of light that broke my heart’: Trauma, Sexual Violence and Sadomasochism in Mary Gaitskill’s Two Girls, Fat and Thin (1991)
Emily Dickinson

“Disarticulated. Dismembered. Destroyed”: Semantic, Structural and Stylistic Representation of Trauma in Nancy Huston’s The Story of Omaya
Danielle Schaub

Session 5b: War and Trauma
Chair: Silvia Pellicer-Ortin

Postwar Trauma: “A Game of Chess” in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
Ömer Öğünç

‘Post-traumatic Responses in the War Narratives of Hanan al-Shaykh’s The Story of Zahra and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun
Ghada Mohammad

A Shared Trauma: Men and Women on the War Front in Hemingway and O’Brien
Erin Holzer

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 6: Collaborative Projects and Community Belongingness: Trauma and Healing
Chair: Oliver Bray

Making Connections: Using Art to Empower and Heal
Mary Carothers and Amerisa Waters

Childhood Trauma in Memoir and Fiction: Blame, Anger and Forgiveness, and the Role of Mental Illness”
Christian Perring

I Sing the Body Politic
Nancy Potter

The Art of Reducing Trauma: Social Work, Community, and the Prevention of Violence Against Women
Jessica Haywood

Friday 23rd March 2012
09.00
Session 7a: Telling Stories
Chair: Will Bradford

The Psychotherapy of Victims and Perpetrators of Domestic Violence as a Treatment of Trauma Experienced in Childhood
Dorota Dyjakon and Agnieszka Widera Wysoczańska

Postmemory and Trauma among the Indigenous Population of Guatemala and Perú
Patricia Varas

Challenging Complicity: Holly Goddard Jones’s Use of Narrative Point of View
Stephanie Stella

Session 7b: Gender and Trauma in Literature
Chair: Bridget Kevane

Re-living Motherhood: Vocalizing Grief, Trauma and Loss in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis
Aparajita Nanda

“The Trick is to Keep Breathing”
Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen

The Trauma of the Colonised: Writing Female in Baynton’s Human Toll
Bridget Haylock

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8a: Art and Poetry of Trauma
Chair: Mary Carothers

Pedestrian #1
Catherine Barrette

The Art of Trauma: Holocaust Restatement in the Graphic Novel
Chanae Bazemore

Poetry of Witness: Marjorie Agosín’s Response to the Trauma of the Disappeared in Pinochet’s Chile
Catherine Collins

Session 8b: Trauma and PTSD
Chair: Moara Crivelente

Mental Health Prevalence in Women Two and a Half Years after the Death of a Child in the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
Yao Xu

An Exploration of PTSD and Coping Strategies: Response to the Experience of Being in a Bomb Attack in Iraq
Fuaad Mohammed Freh

Trauma and Aesthetic Innovation in Herta Müller’s Novel Atemschaukel
Unni Langås

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9a: Trauma, [post]memory and the Holocaust
Chair: David Stefan Bathory

Photographing the Unimaginable
Olaf Haagensen

Postmnemonic Transgression and Travelling Trauma in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz
Catalina Botez

The Aesthetics of Hopelessness:  After the Holocaust in Eva Figes’ Konek Landing
Silvia Pellicer-Ortín

Session 9b: Survival or Suicide: Childhood and Trauma
Chair: Adel Sliti

Reporting Trauma- the indigenous youth situation in Dourados` Reservation, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Maria Alcantara

“An Elaboration of Romantic Memory”: On Suicide, Trauma, and Collective Narrative in The Virgin Suicides
Bilyana Vanyova Kostova

Problems of Court Psychological Assessment of Sexually Abused Children and their Families:  Some Lessons from Practice
Agnieszka Widera Wysoczańska

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 10: Postcolonial Traumas
Chair: Clara Mucci

Trauma in Postcolonial Bildungsromane as Reflected in Selected Novels
Hano Pipic

Ruin Nation: Constructing Identity in Patricia Powell’s The Pagoda
Michael Bick

“But They Crossed, They Survived”: Vessels/Signs of Trauma in Derek Walcott’s Omeros
Adel Sliti

Wounds and History:  Post-Colonial Trauma in José Eduardo Agualusa’s The Book of the Chameleons
Urbán Bálint

Saturday 23rd March 2012
09.00
Session 11: At the Edge of Empire: Rethinking Trauma and its Disruptions under Western Neocolonialism
Chair: Ulrich Koch

At the Edge of Empire: Rethinking Trauma and its Disruptions Under Western Neocolonialism
Sandrina de Finney

The Sexual Exploitation of Indigenous Girls in Canada: Disrupting Collective Trauma Through Participatory Research
Johanne Saraceno

Shock and Awe: Trauma as the New Colonial Frontier
Natalie Clark

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 12: Recovery and Reconciliation
Chair: Sandrina de Finney

Recovery in Rwanda: The Traditional Courts for Reconciliation
Moara Crivelente

Trauma and Art in the Contemporary South African Novel
Ewald Mengel

Sandplay Therapy for the Healing of Trauma
Evgenia Troshikhina

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 13: Intergenerational Traumas
Chair: Dana Mihăilescu

Children of Trauma: Early Relational Trauma and Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma
Clara Mucci

The Trauma Behind the Myth: The Necessity to Recover the Past in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day
Patricia San José Rico

Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: The Case of the Dersim Massacre 1937-8
Filiz Celik

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 14: Theorising Trauma
Chair: Peter Bray

Trauma as Entanglement
Michela Borzaga

The Shock of the Real or Shocking Realities?:  Critical Theory and the Normalization of Trauma
Ulrich Koch

Trauma and Psychopathology
David Stefan Bathory

The Effects of Stress Management Versus Memory Structuring + Vagal Breathing on Acute Stress Responses in Emergency Room Patients
Yori Gidron

17.30
Development meeting and closing remarks

18.00
Conference Ends