Public Lecture: The Global Turn in Trauma Studies
The Centre for the History of Violence presents Professor Mark S. Micale (Illinois) in a free public lecture, 'The Global Turn in Trauma Studies.'
Recent decades have seen an outpouring of publications about psychological trauma in a host of fields, including medicine, law, history, sociology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, literature, and film. Most of the research conducted thus far has taken three great historical experiences – World War One, the Nazi Holocaust, and the Vietnam War – to be paradigmatic of modern mental trauma. Yet if our collective understanding of the psychology of traumatic memory is to advance in the early twentieth-first century, the next generation of thinking and writing about the subject must greatly broaden its geographical vision beyond Euro-American settings.
This is a free public event, but tickets are limited. See link below to register.
Mark S. Micale is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an
internationally recognised historian of psychiatry, medicine and European culture. His books
include Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness (Harvard University Press,
2007), and the collections The Mind of Modernism: Medicine, Psychology, and the Cultural Arts in
Europe and America, 1880-1940 (Stanford University Press, 2004) and (with Paul Lerner) Traumatic
Pasts: History, Psychiatry and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
In May and June 2017 he is an International Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle.
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.