1st Global Conference (2011)

1st Global Conference

Monday 14th March – Wednesday 16th March 2011
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

Monday 14th March 2011
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Colette Balmain

14.00
Session 1a: “East Asian Traumas”
Chair: Janus Currie

Han, Corporeality of the Korean War
Colette Balmain

Thai Horror and Trauma
Spencer Murphy

Mishima Yukio’s Masochistic Aesthetics in “Confessions of a Mask”
Yoshio Endo

Session 1b: Natural Disasters and Traumatic After-Shocks
Chair: Bonnie L. Settlage

The Effectiveness of a Guided Narrative Technique for Teenage Survivors after the Sichuan Earthquake
Yinyin Zang

When Disasters Strike: An Analytical Exploration of the Relationship Between Outcomes of Human-made and Natural Disasters, Socioeconomic and Political Contexts, and Trauma
Ivana Chapcakova and Erika J. Pozo

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 2a: The Experience of Trauma: a Practioner’s Viewpoint
Chair:  Donna Savery

Knowing, Not Knowing and Muddling Through
Aliye Kublay and Banu Hummel

The Experience of Trauma
Bonnie L. Settlage

Collective Identity Trauma in Ukrainian Citizens: Problems and Perspectives
Lydia Derkach

Session 2b: “Traumatic Postmodernism?”
Chair: William Bostock

The Trauma of the Ephemeral Body in Michael Housellebecq’s Atomised and Oskar Roehler’s Elementarteilchen?
Imola Miko

Trauma and the Condition of the Postmodern Identity
Daniellla Mortimar

Locating the Trauma Womb in an Absent City
E.A. Leonard

17.30
Notices and Announcements

Wine Reception

Tuesday 15th March
09:00
Session 3a: Etiquette of Grief (Performance)
Chair: Colette Balmain

Ellie Harrison

Session 3b: Trauma, Memory and Identity
Chair: E.A. Leonard

‘He looks at me as if I were a dog’: Representations of Shame and Trauma in the Fiction of Jean Rhys
Jack Dawson

Damaged Beyond Help? Simon Armitage’s The Not Dead and the Paradoxes of Trauma
Jacek Gutorow

Trauma, Memory and Identity in Australian War Fiction: A Practioner’s Viewpoint
Tessa Lunney

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4a: The Body-in-Pain
Chair:  Yoshio Endo

Contemporary Turkey, A Traumatized Society –The Repressed Experience of Torture and Killing after the Putsch in 1980
Georg Simet

“The Dramaturgy of Torture: Working over the Body in Modern Drama”
Michael Peterson

Phenomenologies of Disability: Chronic Pain and the Temporality of Trauma
Gayle Salamon

Last Words and the End of War
A.B. Huber

Session 4b: Collective Trauma and Collective Loss in Narratives of Trauma
Chair: Anabela Valente Simoes

Collective Trauma in Modern Afrikaans Literature
J.P.C. van den Berg

Rewriting Histories of Collective Loss in Caribbean British Poetry
Monica Manolachi

Enlisting Rage and Speaking Place: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria
Bridget Haylock

12.30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5a: Theorising Trauma 1
Chair: Federica Guglielmo

A Feel for the Organism: Cultural and Methodological Contexts of Trauma Psychology from a Somatic-Energetic Perspective
Philip M. Helfaer

‘Absurdity’, ‘Defiance’ and ‘Becoming’ towards Recovery: An Existential Therapeutic Approach to Confronting the Traumatic
Donna Savery

Criticizing “Collective Trauma”: A Plea for a Fundamental Social Psychological Reflection of Traumatisation Process
Markus Brunner

Session 5b: Performing Trauma
Chair:  Ellie Harrison

Public Hearing of Private Griefs : Investigating the performance of history, in Jane Taylor’s Ubu and the Truth Commission (1998) and John Kani’s Nothing But the Truth (2002)
Tamar Meskin and Tanya van der Walt

A Quiet Horror – Reflections on Performing Traumatic Narratives in Contemporary South Africa (work in progress)
Awelani Moyo

After Exile: Performing Trauma and Cultural Memory in Wedding Memories
Chao, Ning-Yu

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 6a: Traumatic Europe
Chair:  Spencer Murphy

Persistence and Transformation of Cultural Trauma: Commemoration of Soviet Deportations in the Media of Post-Soviet Latvia (1987-2010)
Olga Procevska and Laura Uzule

July 2, 1993 in Turkish Literature: Representation(s) of the Sivas Massacre
Nazmi Agi

Session 6b: Gender and Trauma
Chair: Sue Robinson

Trauma and Recovery from Female Genital Mutilation
S Ihenacho and  A Manyande

Vicarious Trauma and Gender Differences as Reported Among Red Cross Mental Health Case Workers
Shana Garrett

17.30
Sessions End

Wednesday 16^th March 2011
09.00
Session 7a: Trauma and Recovery
Chair: Peter Bray

Trauma and Recovery through Art: The Construction of Self
Catherine Barrette

Finding a Voice after Trauma
Sue Robinson

Trauma, Healing and the Reconstruction of Truth  in the Individual and in Society
Clara Mucci

Session 7b: Mediating trauma on the internet, on Screen and for Real
Chair:  Jeanne Clark

‘Trauma’? Sharing Experiences of Mental Illness Online
Krzysztof Bierski

‘Be Careful with that Trauma Christoph: Schlingensief’s Dissensual Staging of the ‘Unrepresentable’
Janus Currie

‘Dying on TV: Traumatic Encounter, on Screen and For Real’
Misha Kavka

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8a: War and Trauma
Chair: Michael Richardson

Looking at the Iraq War with “Eyes Wide Open”: Trauma, Memory and Ethics
Catherine Collins

Satanic Accusations of Metal Heads: The Politics of Memory and Trauma in Lebanon
Lamia Moghnieh

The Iraq War: A Narrative Study in the Role of Conflict, Emotion and Value Transformation
Pamela Creed

Trauma and Identity in Gaza: Shooting a Cast Lead Elephant
Jeanne Clark

Session 8b: Coming to Terms with Trauma
Chair: Clara Mucci

A Pilgrimage into the Liminal
Christina Lovey

Fathers and Sons: An Autoethnographic Case Study of Bereavement and Trauma
Oliver and Peter Bray

A Jungian Approach to Understanding and Treating Children Who Were Traumatized Prior To their Adoption
Mark Bortz

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9a: Theorizing  Trauma2
Chair: Philip Helfar

Writing Torture’s Remants: Sovereign Power, Affect and the War on Terror
Michael Richardson

Trauma to the Body Politics: Impacts and Adjustments Following Political Asassination
William Bostock

Trauma and Trauma(s): The Politically Embedded Identity
Federica Guglielmo

Session 9b: Tourism and Trauma
Chair:  Shana Garrett

Always Already Again: Trauma Tourism and the Politics of Memory Culture
LaurieBeth Clark

From Traumascapes to Touristscapes: “War Tours” in Sarajevo and Vukovar
Patrick Naef

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 10: Testimonies
Chair: Georg Simet

‘Because memory is also a prison’. The Holocaust and the question of representing trauma in the memoirs of Ruth Elias and Ruth Klüger
Anabela Simoes

David Rousset Les jours de notre mort: Between Testimony and History at the Crossroads of Literary Genres
Sandrine Schirmacher

Crane Meets Cranium: The Crisis of Representing Trauma in Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker
Carolin Alice Hofmann

17.30
Development Meeting and Closing Remarks

18.00
Conference Ends