Fwd: Postcolonial Traumas (4/13/2012; 9/13-14/2012) UK

[Chris]

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>Postcolonial Traumas Conference
>
>Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Nottingham Trent University
>
>13th-14th September 2012
>
>Confirmed keynote speaker: Professor Patrick Williams, Nottingham 
>Trent University
>
>Around the time of Frantz Fanon's famous articulation in Black Skin, 
>White Masks (1952) of the 'massive psychoexistential complex' 
>created by colonisation, such writers as Octave Mannoni and Albert 
>Memmi were also thinking about colonisation's damaging psychological 
>effects. In more recent years, the work of trauma theorists, 
>including Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman, Marianne Hirsch, Dominick 
>LaCapra and Dori Laub, has been both embraced and rejected by 
>postcolonial theorists and critics. Whilst, for some, trauma theory 
>has provided a helpful way of conceptualising the often painful and 
>difficult legacies of colonialism, others have been all too aware of 
>what Stef Craps and Gert Buelens (2008) have recognised as the 
>'Eurocentric blind spots that trauma theory will have to confront if 
>it is to have any hope of delivering on its promise of 
>cross-cultural ethical engagement'. This interdisciplinary 
>conference seeks to reflect on this promise and explore new ways of 
>thinking about postcol
>onial trauma.
>Conference participants will be invited to submit extended versions 
>of their papers for an edited collection.
>
>Topics may include (but are not limited to):
>
>*Slavery and indenture
>*Colonial legacies
>*Neocolonial trauma
>*Apartheid
>*Genocides
>*Survival and resistance
>*Tourism and eco-trauma
>*Migration and displacement
>*Asylum
>*Witnessing and testifying
>*Memory and trauma
>*The ethics of trauma studies
>
>Please send 300-word abstracts and 50-word bios to Abigail Ward by 
>Friday 13th April 2012: abigail.ward at ntu.ac.uk.
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