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TRN-Newsletter 2, June 2004
Table of Contents
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| Focus
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Traumatic history: speaking the void in literature
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Cornelia Berens, Hamburg, Introduction to the focus section
Geoffrey H. Hartman, New Haven, Trauma within the limits of literature
Sven Kramer, Toronto,Talking around trauma: on the relationship between trauma, narration, and catharsis in literature (on Stefan Zweig and Jean Améry)
Anja Lemke, Frankfurt, How to speak? Non-semantic representation of the Shoah in the writings of Paul Celan
Birgit R. Erdle, Berlin, The rhetoric of the void and its ambiguities (on Patrick Modiano´s book "Dora Bruder")
Kay Sulk, Hanover, Zoé etc. - J.M. Coetzee, Biopolitics and Testimony. Abstract
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| Networking |
News-Ticker (will be updated every three months)
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News-Ticker Summer 2004:
Conferences / Calls for Papers
Calls for Contributions
Lectures and Seminars
NEW: Publications from Trauma Research Net Members
Vacancies and Bursaries / Grants / Scholarships
New Websites
Useful Links
Forum
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Sara Valentina di Palma, Siena, Children and teenagers in the Holocaust. History and memory of Nazi and Fascist persecution. Abstract
Janie van Dijk, Utrecht, Centrum '45 organized a symposium: Testimony of trauma
Evelin Gerda Lindner, Oslo, Humiliation in armed conflicts. Abstract
Petar Opalic, Belgrade, Characteristics of the responses of patients somatically traumatized through accidents and wars in Bosnia-Herzegowina and Belgrade. Abstract
Petar Opalic and Aleksandar Lesic, Belgrade, Psychopathology of traumatized in Yugoslawia. Summary.
Klaus-Dieter Grothe, Wetzlar, The truth of the victims. An internet based project.
Pau Pérez-Sales, Teresa Durán-Pérez and Roberta Bacic Herzfeld, Temuco, Long-term psychosocial consequences in first-degree relatives of people detained-disappeared or executed for political reasons in Chile. A study in Mapuce and Non-Mapuce persons. Abstract
Dori Laub, New Haven, September 11, 2001 - an event without a voice
Sibylle Rothkegel, Berlin, Report on the implementation of a three week consultancy in Sierra Leone. 1st part of a 3-year program in: Trauma and Recovery "TAR".
Portraits
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Horacio Tarcus, Buenos Aires, Centro de Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierdas en la Argentina [Center of Documentation and Research of Leftwing Culture in Argentina]
Vera Sandor et al, Bucharest, Fondatia Generatia.Center for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy.
Conference Reports
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Alexandra Lauterbach, Emphasizing the inclusion of the body. A report on the international conference "Psychological trauma. Maturational processes and therapeutic interventions", Boston, MA., March 22-24, 2001
Margarethe Schauer, Third annual meeting of the German Society for Psychotraumatology (DeGPT], University of Konstanz, April 27-29, 2001
Eric Markusen, Brief report on the international conference "Life After Death: Rebuilding Genocide Survivors’ Lives: Challenges and Opportunities", Kigali, Rwanda, November 25-30, 2001
Cornelia Berens, Report on the second international Trauma Research Net conference "Individual and Collective Trauma. Reality, Myth, Metaphor?", Wiesbaden-Naurod, June, 28.-30, 2002
André Karger, The social dimension of trauma. "Trauma and Group" – First retreat of a group of psychoanalysts, philosophers and social scientists, Düsseldorf, November 15, 2003
Upcoming conference report in TRN-Newsletter 3
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| Books |
Book Announcements
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Cornelia Berens, Introduction to the book announcements section
Book Reviews
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Cornelia Berens, Introduction to the book reviews section
Peter Bruendl on Teréz Virág, Children of social trauma. Hungarian psychoanalytic case studies.
Saniye Celik on Neil Belton, The good listener. Helen Bamber. A life against cruelty [in German: Die Ohrenzeugin. Helen Bamber. Ein Leben gegen die Gewalt].
Ursula Hien on Robert Bober, Berg et Beck [Berg and Beck. A novel].
Emanuel Hurwitz on Raphael Gross, Eva Lezzi, and Marc R. Richter (Eds.), "Eine Welt, die ihre Wirklichkeit verloren hatte ..." Juedische Ueberlebende des Holocaust in der Schweiz ["A world without reality ...". Jewish Holocaust survivors in Switzerland].
Mona Koerte on Ernestine Schlant, The language of silence. West German literature and the Holocaust.
Elke Preul on Douglas M. Thomas, Pictures at an exhibition. A novel.
Angela Schwarz on Barbara Bauer, Waltraud Strickhausen (Eds.), Fuer ein Kind war das anders. Traumatische Erfahrungen juedischer Kinder und Jugendlicher im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland [For a child it was different. Traumatic experiences of Jewish children andadolescents in National Socialist Germany].
David Becker on David Rieff, A bed for the night. Humanitarianism in crisis
Brandon Hamber on Michael Humphrey, The politics of atrocity and reconciliation: From terror to trauma
Upcoming reviews in TRN-Newsletter 3
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