Description

Around the time of Frantz Fanon’s famous articulation in Black Skin, White Masks (1952) of the ‘massive psychoexistential complex’ created by colonisation, such writers as Octave Mannoni and Albert Memmi were also thinking about colonisation’s damaging psychological effects. In more recent years, the work of trauma theorists, including Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman, Marianne Hirsch, Dominick LaCapra and Dori Laub, has been both embraced and rejected by postcolonial theorists and critics. Whilst, for some, trauma theory has provided a helpful way of conceptualising the often painful and difficult legacies of colonialism, others have been all too aware of what Stef Craps and Gert Buelens (2008) have recognised as the ‘Eurocentric blind spots that trauma theory will have to confront if it is to have any hope of delivering on its promise of cross-cultural ethical engagement’. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to reflect on this promise and explore new ways of thinking about postcolonial trauma.

The conference fee includes a three-course lunch and also morning and afternoon refreshments, pastries and cakes.

There will be a three-course conference dinner on Thursday evening at an award-winning local Indian restaurant for an additional fee of £20. If you would like to attend the dinner, please add it to your basket, choosing between the meat or vegetarian option. Please identify any additional dietary requirements when prompted.

Conference fee

Please choose one of the following options:

Full conference fee (waged): £100

Thursday only (waged): £60

Friday only (waged): £60

Full conference fee (student): £50

Thursday only (student): £30

Friday only (student): £30

Conference dinner (Thursday)

Please choose one of the following options:

Conference dinner (meat option): £20

Conference dinner (vegetarian option): £20