2011 Venture Workshop:
Memory, Trauma & Change in World Politics

Workshop Chairs: Erica Simone Almeida Resende, Rio de Janeiro State University & Dovile Budryte, Georgia Gwinnett College
Location: Salon B, Sheraton
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Workshop Summary

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together both senior and junior scholars from diverse backgrounds and origins to engage in the investigation of how traumatic memory, as well as a significantly broad range of emotions attached to it, relate to the articulation of social change and alternative modes of authority in world politics. Our focus will be on the international dimension of these processes. Following the path breaking work of Edkins (2003) and Zehfuss (2007), we will attempt to understand how traumatic events and the ways they are experienced, felt, perceived, memorialized and forgotten, influence and are influenced by norms, identities and interests in world politics, thus promoting social change.

Workshop Participants (tentative)

  • DOUGLAS BECKER, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
  • ERIN WILSON, RMIT UNIVERSITY
  • HANNES HANSEN-MAGNUSSON, UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG
  • JAMES MCKEE, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
  • JENNY EDKINS, ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY
  • JESSICA AUCHTER, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
  • LAURA TAYLOR, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
  • LEONARDO NASCIMENTO, IUPERJ
  • MAJA ZEHFUSS, MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY
  • MARIA MÄLKSOO, UNIVERSITY OF TARTU
  • SAMUEL FELDBERG, UNIVERSITY OF SAO PAULO
  • TODD HALL, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
  • VINCENT CHAPAUX, UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES