24/3/2017
SPeCTReSS - Social Performances of Cultural Trauma and the Rebuilding of Solid Sovereignties &
XII Simpósio de Estudos Irlandeses na América do Sul
22-25 Agosto de 2017
“Rethinking Cultural Trauma from Transnational Perspectives”
SPeCTReSS - Social Performances of Cultural Trauma and the Rebuilding of Solid Sovereignties &
XII Symposium of Irish Studies in South America
22-25 August 2017
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“Rethinking Cultural Trauma from Transnational Perspectives”
The aim of the Conference is to gather SPeCTReSS researchers to discuss the results of the three-year international joint-research project developed by nine universities: Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), Rurh-Universität, Bochum (Germany), Jagiellonian University (Poland), University of Tartu (Estonia), Zagreb University (Croatia), Jawaharlal Nehru University (India), University of São Paulo (Brazil), Yale University (United States) and University of Tokyo (Japan). Delegates of the annual ABEI symposium of Irish Studies in South America and researchers of the WB Yeats Chair of Irish Studies will also join the event hosted by the University of São Paulo.
The main theme follows previous encounters of the SPeCTReSS research group led by Trinity College Dublin, the yearly discussions at the Summer Institute of Cultural Trauma organized by Zagreb University, as well as the regular meetings of the University of São Paulo research group with SPeCTReSS incoming secondees.
Considering that the concept of cultural trauma is a theoretical construct that allows us to set up borders around an occurrence that reaches back into the past and forward into the future, the multicultural discursive responses which disclose the processes of meaning making and attribution will be focused within the social fabric of the contemporary transcultural global space.
“Rethinking cultural trauma from transnational perspectives” tackles the shared experiences of social transformations and the double bound effects that a devastating idea could positively construct a communal way of life. Departing from Piotr Sztompka’s traumatic sequence (2004: 168-9), the post-traumatic adaptations and the overcoming of trauma will be discussed in dialogue with the sudden, comprehensive, deep and unexpected social changes, the structural disorganization of cultures, the traumatizing events that resulted from social changes and the traumatic condition expressed by a set of traumatic symptoms (mental or behavioural).
The history of nations has been marked by traumatizing events such as revolutions, market collapses, lost wars, fall of empires, radical economic reforms, unemployment, forced migrations, genocides, terrorism and famines. Lectures, round tables, and panels led by SPeCTReSS researchers will bring up to light the results of their studies on the role of collective memory in the process of narrating post-traumatic actions and of constructing new national identities across different systems and forms of experiencing cultural trauma.
The sections will be organized around the five main topics of the project, which will motivate other scholars to present their own research in dialogue with them:
- Historical continuities and discontinuities after cultural trauma (colonialism, imperialism, dictatorships; new sovereignties).
- Culture, society and its institutions (museums, archives, textbooks).
- Narratives and discourses of the nation (particular tropes, language issues, genres, etc).
- Fractured unities: the national and the global; the diasporic and the individual; the internal and external forces of refugees and (im)migrants.
- Writing and performing the nation (strategies and acts of resistance or recreation of certain local or global patterns of representation or of performing arts; canonical frameworks; the role of the artist).
Keynote speakers:
Aditya Mukherjee (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Aigi Rahi-Tamm (Tartu University)
Bodh Prakash (Ambedkar University, Delhi)
Cahal McLaughlin (Queen’s University Belfast)
Elo-Hanna Seljamaa (Tartu University)
Ene Koresaar (Tartu University)
Eunan O’Halpin (Trinity College Dublin)
Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin)
Jennifer Edmond (Trinity College Dublin)
Juergen Barkhof (Trinity College Dublin)
Malgorzata Sugiera (Jagellonian University)
Melania Terrazas (University of La Rioja, Spain & AEDEI - Spanish Association of Irish Studies)
Nebosja Blanusa (Zagreb University)
Saugata Bhaduri (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Sarah Durcan (Science Gallery, Ireland)
Sucheta Mahajan (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Tomasz Bilczewski (Jagellonian University, Poland)
Moya Cannon (Irish writer)
Academic Committees
SPeCTReSS: Jane Ohlmeyer, Jennifer Edmond, Laura P.Z. Izarra, Luiz Fernando Ramos, Munira H. Mutran, Sergio Adorno, Vitor Blotta.
ABEI: Rosalie Rahal Haddad, Adriana Capuchinho, Gisele Wolkoff, Luci Collin, Mariana Bolfarine, Maria Rita Drumond Viana, Rejane Ferreira, Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação.
Local Organizing Committee
Chair: Sérgio França Adorno de Abreu.
Alessandra Rigonato, Caroline Moreira Eufrausino, Camila Franco Batista, Eda Nagayama, Munira H. Mutran, Mariana Bolfarine, Patricia de Aquino Prudente, Rosalie Rahal Haddad, Tais Leite de Moura, Victor Pacheco, Vitor Blotta.
General Organization:
Laura Patricia Zuntini de Izarra
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