Trauma and the Early Modern (1)
Event Date: Tuesday 24 November 2010 5.00 pm
Royal Holloway, IN 032
Trauma and the Early Modern (1)
TRAUMA, FICTION, HISTORY seminar series
School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Speakers:
Professor John O’Brien, (Royal Holloway), Beginnings and Trauma
Dr Timothy Chesters, (Royal Holloway), Divine Trauma
On the face of things, there seems something ineradicably modern about trauma as a concept. Born, as ‘traumatic neurosis’, alongside modern psychoanalysis at the end of the nineteenth century, and revitalised within deconstruction at the close of the twentieth, trauma theory has also been shaped by a series of – it is sometimes supposed – uniquely modern catastrophes: World War I, the Holocaust, Hiroshima, Vietnam. So what if anything can trauma theory reveal of other historical periods? Is to speak of trauma in the early modern period, for example, merely to indulge in futile anachronism? Or can trauma theory still teach us something about early modern violence and the mental scars it left behind? More provocatively, perhaps, can early modern texts tell us anything of trauma theory itself: its assumptions, its blind spots, its own unspoken past? In the first of a two-part mini-series on ‘Trauma and the Early Modern’, Timothy Chesters and John O’Brien test the applicability of trauma theory in a number of texts arising out of the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598).
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Introduction by Colin Davis .
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John O’Brien Beginnings and Trauma:
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handout: Beginnings and Trauma (download)
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Timothy Chesters Divine Trauma :
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handout: Divine Trauma (download)
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questions:
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Can your Department explain to me how your department “hijacked ”
my research area on
war trauma
in 2006 when I applied to finish my M.A studies at Rhul
(due to academic and political hazards beyond my control )
and turned it into an enticing module for the taught M.A (2006)
The M.A “did not run” (Prof C.D “SIDI”) when I found out
Prof John O’Brien was then” Head ” of Graduate Studies
and received all my research details .
Why did the old “Head” of Department (“Prof” Sonia Stephen )
refused to comment later in 20O7
after her quick departure / “bunk”(?) to Indianna Uni .
Why all the lies and cover up ?
Why was I rejected as a potential candidate
yet had my deatilas capitalised on to attract customers
and money for Rhul .
One political /philosophical /ethical /moral question (S) for you
to really”pompously “ponder .
No need to go back to the Early Modern to find the answer !
L.L
i