PANEL 4 - Collective Trauma
Convenors: Bernhard Sylla
All inquiries about the panel should be sent to [email protected].
The past few decades have witnessed an enormous interest in the phenomenon of trauma. One of the direct consequences of this trend is the now remarkable transdisciplinary relevance of the trauma phenomenon. Besides psychology, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, medicine, analyses in the field of sociology, history, literature studies, cultural studies and philosophy have become very numerous. As far as philosophy is concerned, the phenomenon of trauma can be considered from numerous points of view, such as the ethical, political, ontological or anthropological.
Due to the extraordinary wide range of the trauma topic, the focus of this panel will be on the following questions or topics:
If you want to apply, please submit an abstract, of 400-500 words along with five keywords, of your paper prepared for peer review by 17 April 2022. We will respond by 28 April 2022. All proposals must be submitted online through our website using the Abstract submission Form (please, click “Submit Abstract” and fill the form).
All inquiries about the panel should be sent to [email protected].
The past few decades have witnessed an enormous interest in the phenomenon of trauma. One of the direct consequences of this trend is the now remarkable transdisciplinary relevance of the trauma phenomenon. Besides psychology, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, medicine, analyses in the field of sociology, history, literature studies, cultural studies and philosophy have become very numerous. As far as philosophy is concerned, the phenomenon of trauma can be considered from numerous points of view, such as the ethical, political, ontological or anthropological.
Due to the extraordinary wide range of the trauma topic, the focus of this panel will be on the following questions or topics:
- Is the term “collective trauma” justified?
- Are terms with collective connotations such as “cultural trauma”, “symbolic trauma”, “chosen trauma”, etc. justified?
- Differences between collective and individual trauma
- Is it justified to speak of humanity traumas?
- Are there prospective traumas (e.g., due to impending ecological catastrophes)?
- Current debates on specific collective traumas, such as Holocaust trauma, trauma due to ethnic persecution, terrorist attacks, trauma due to social discrimination (gender, race, religion), etc.
- Aspects of the political treatment of trauma victims (social recognition, compensation policies, etc.)
- Collective scapegoating, spirals of violence (e.g., the Freudian thesis, that identification with collectively experienced traumas can lead to new violence)
- Other topics
If you want to apply, please submit an abstract, of 400-500 words along with five keywords, of your paper prepared for peer review by 17 April 2022. We will respond by 28 April 2022. All proposals must be submitted online through our website using the Abstract submission Form (please, click “Submit Abstract” and fill the form).
