Exploring the Edge of Trauma

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The 7th Cultural Intersections International Colloquium, presented by:

• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University, London, UK
• Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Kingston University, London, UK
• Department of Languages and Linguistics, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada

Colloquium organisers: Professor Fran Lloyd, Professor Lieve Spaas

Trauma

Exploring the Edge of Trauma will interrogate the intricate and wide-ranging ways through which we seek to go over the edge of trauma, through art, literature, media, therapeutic and social experience, which all call for the construction/deconstruction of metaphors and representations that help or prevent sharing and communicating about trauma.

In an interdisciplinary and international context, it will delineate and discuss some of the rich cultural and social experience accumulated in this quest, and investigate the impossibility/possibilities to be fully cognate with and experience the trauma of others and communicate our own traumas.

Panels and convenors

• Cities of Trauma - Stephen Barber, Kingston University
• History, Trauma and the Moving Image - Carrie Tarr, Kingston University
• The Legacy of Colonial Trauma - Lieve Spaas, Kingston University
• Narrating Trauma - Tamás Bényei, University of Debrecen
• Remediating Trauma - Chris Horrocks, Kingston University
• Responses to Trauma in the Visual Arts - Fran Lloyd, Kingston University
• Trauma of the Holocaust: Reassessing forms of representation for the 21st Century - François Nectoux, Kingston University
• The Unspeakable: the Language of Trauma - Magda Stroinska, McMaster University

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Colloquium Sessions & Papers

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Poster submission

The colloquium organisers also welcome poster submissions which explore trauma.

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Delegate information

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