- International Network for Interdisciplinary Research about the Impact of Traumatic Experience on the Life of Individuals and Society Trauma Research Net (TRN)
- Coordination Office
Cornelia Berens M.A.
Scientific Coordinator and Editor of the TRN-Newsletter
Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung/Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Mittelweg 36
D-20148 Hamburg
Phone ++49 (0)40 41 40 97 - 0
Fax ++49 (0)40 41 40 97 - 501
URL http://www.his-online.de (English version available)
Email Cornelia_Berens@his-online.de
We ought to inform you that the network´s coordination office, directed by Cornelia Berens from 1995 until 1998, is temporarily closed due to lack of further funding. But we are looking forward to re-open the office, in affiliation with another institution than the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, in the not too distant future.
The coordination of network activities includes consultation, review, and forwarding of project applications to potential supporters or sponsors and responding to other requests. The coordinating office’s main responsibility will be to plan an annual or biennial network conference and to acquire the necessary funding for such a conference. At a later date, the focus of coordinating activities will shift to fundraising for individual projects carried out by the network.
The Hamburg Institute for Social Research and its director, Jan Philipp Reemtsma, provided an organizational and intellectual home for the network in its crucial early years.
The Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Culture is now securing the financial basis for the TRN-Newsletter. The first issue of the TRN-Newsletter was published in July 2000 [see Newsletter Registration Form].
- Short history of the project
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- International Study Group for Trauma, Violence, and Genocide Trauma research plays a key role in the understanding of the socio-political relations of violence. Large man-made disasters such as war and genocide or racial persecution and ethnic cleansing often result in extreme trauma. Violence within families, sexual abuse and violence within social relations also have traumatic effects on victims, as well as perpetrators and witnesses. An interdisciplinary discourse with representatives of all disciplines involved in trauma research is the prerequisite for developing new approaches which will bring us closer to a better understanding of extreme traumatization and its effects. The International Study Group thus brought together representatives from the fields of psychoanalysis, history, sociology, and literary studies. Members of the Study Group were (in alphabetical order): Cornelia Berens, Werner Bohleber, Ilany Kogan, Dori Laub (founder), Steven Marans (in the first year), Klaus Roeckerath, Jan Philipp Reemtsma and Christian Schneider.
The purpose of this non-profit organization, founded in April 1996 in Hamburg, was to promote research about trauma, violence and genocide. To this end, the Study Group organized academic lectures and conferences and published books and journal articles.
Over the course of two years (1996 to 1998), the Study Group came together with guests from a variety of disciplines for a series of seven video workshops entitled: Traumatization and coping with trauma. Diagnosis and etiology.
One of the foremost goals of the Study Group was to promote networking among institutions working throughout the world, either practically or theoretically, in the field of trauma and its effects. Since this goal was achieved in the course of the Study Group’s existence with the creation of an informal network of more than seven hundred institutions and individuals worldwide, the Study Group was dissolved during its annual meeting on December 1, 1998, by unanimous vote of its members.
I am grateful to all the members of the International Study Group for Trauma, Violence, and Genocide for having had the vision to create a space for international, interdisciplinary, and innovative cooperation in this vital and complex field. Special thanks are due to Dori Laub for the passion and perseverance needed to turn a vision into reality.
- Publications
- So far, the Study Group has published one reader in English; another two are due to be released in the near future.
The first reader is entitled ”Coming Home” from Trauma. The Next Generation, Muteness, and the Search for a Voice. It was published in 1996.
The second volume includes contributions from the Study Group conference Interdisciplinary Research into Trauma and Violence, held in Stuttgart in November 1995, and will be published in 2001.
The third reader is an annotated bibliography, written by Miriam Rieck, on the subject of The Later Medical and Psychological Effects of the Holocaust on Its Survivors and Their Offspring, and will be available by the end of the year 2001.
All three readers can be ordered solely from the Hamburg Institute for Social Research; a small fee is charged for each reader. Donations to support the network are suggested.
For further information please contact by email: Cornelia_Berens@his-online.de
- Conferences
- International Network for Interdisciplinary Research about the Impact of Traumatic Experience on the Life of Individuals and Society
Hamburg, November 30 - December 4, 1998
The International Study Group for Trauma, Violence, and Genocide was established with the goal of creating an international network in which representatives from a wide range of disciplines could work together to gain new insights into the effects of traumatic experiences on individuals, groups of people, and entire societies. In the course of the 1998 conference, fifteen in part very diverse institutions concerned with the phenomenon of traumatization made presentations on their work.
The conference ended with the participants’ decision to establish an informal network and to invite other institutions to join. It was decided that the Hamburg Institute for Social Research would edit a network newsletter and immediately after the conference, 30 individuals or institutions submitted proposals for projects which they considered worthy of realization within the context of the network’s activities and named their areas of competence and skills which might be useful as resources for other TRN-Network members. The provisional name of the network is: International Network for Interdisciplinary Research about the Impact of Traumatic Experience on the Life of Individuals and Society. The abbreviation is: Trauma Research Net (TRN).
More detailed information and abstracts can be obtained from the TRN-Newsletter [see Newsletter].
- Trauma Research Net - Upcoming conference in 2002
Members of the Trauma Research Net should have the opportunity to gather in an annual or at least in a biennial conference. I am very grateful to Mihran Dabag, the director of the Institut fuer Diaspora- und Genozidforschung at the Ruhr-University Bochum/Germany, who offered his help in preparing the next conference. His office has a lot of experience in organizing retreats, so we are looking forward to a fruitful meeting. A committee is currently preparing the conference, which will take place near Wiesbaden-Naurod, Germany, from June 28-30, 2002.
- Impressum and Copyright Information
- This website is published by the Trauma Research Net at the Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung (Hamburg Institute for Social Research, HIS). Layout, graphics and text copyright by the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung. All material provided on this website, including material supplied by the Institute itself and documents (including text and images) from other authors or sources, is protected by copyright, intellectual property rights and all other relevant rights.
This website is designed by Wilfried Gandras, Hamburg, and managed by Cornelia Berens, Hamburg. All content and design copyright © Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung.
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