EXPLORING THE EDGE OF TRAUMA

13 May to 16 May 2010
West Dean Conference Centre, West Dean College, West Dean, Chichester,
PO18 0QZ

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
Cinema, Trauma and Displacement - Carrie Tarr, Kingston University
Cities of Trauma - Stephen Barber, Kingston University
Class Trauma - François Nectoux, 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
The Unspeakable: the Language of Trauma - Magda Stroinska, McMaster
University
Vengeance, sacrifice, catharsis: expériences masculines et féminines -
Anne et Catherine Saouter, Université du Québec à Montréal
Young People Online: The Internet as a Medium for Trauma and Traumatic
Experience - Julia Davidson, Kingston University

Abstract submission
An abstract of 300 words should be submitted by 5 January 2010. The
colloquium organisers also welcome poster submissions which explore
trauma. Detailed panel and abstract/poster submission information can be
found on the conference website at: www.kingston.ac.uk/edgeoftrauma

Please address general enquiries to
fass-conferenceskingston.ac.uk