Postgraduate/early-career researcher virtual workshop: Intersection of memory/trauma and the Politics of Emotions in IR
We invite paper submissions exploring the interplay between memory, trauma, and emotion/affect in political contexts by incorporating perspectives from memory studies, psychology, sociology, cultural studies, and history.
This interdisciplinary workshop aims to bring together postgraduate and early-career scholars to examine how memory and traumatic experiences intersect with affective dynamics in shaping identities, (security), and international relations. Our workshop explores theoretical and methodological questions on how traumatic memories enact and/or shape emotions and the affective underpinnings of the politics of memory and commemorative practices. Participants will also explore how gender, race, class, and colonial histories shape trauma that underpin trauma and the politics of emotions.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
-Memory/trauma of violence and mass atrocity and their broader emotional consequences
-The role of emotion/affect in constructing and performing identities
-Narrative formation, nostalgia, loss, and ontological (in)security
-The embodied dimensions of trauma and emotion in politics
-Decolonising trauma and emotion studies
-The role of populism and migration in memory and affect
-Affect in commemorative practices and memory activism
-The impact of digital technologies and visuals in transmitting memory and emotion
Programme
Intro (1:00-1:05pm)
Panel 1: Affective Dimensions of Trauma in Conflict and Mass Atrocities (1:05-2:30pm)
Discussant: Maximilian W Guarini (University of Bristol)
Trauma and militancy: the influence of trauma on Kurdish militant pathways
James Hewitt (University of St Andrews)
Resistance, Desire, and Joy: Re-Imagining Amputee Bodies Beyond Violence
Nicholas Gribble (University of Manchester)
“Against the Cruelty of the Past and Present": Affective Memories of Argentine Women's Movements in Times of Oppression.
Gabriela Aparecida de Oliveira (PUC-Rio)
Long-Lasting Conflict and Identity Formation: The Impossibility of Peace and Ontological Security in Colombia
Katherine Sacramento (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro)
Panel 2: Emotional Memory, Narratives, and Grief in Contemporary Crisis (2:35-4pm)
Discussant: Dovile Budryte (Georgia Gwinnett College)
Emotions in Multilateral Diplomacy: The Instrumentalization of Affect in the United Nations
Erman Ermihan (Kadir Has University), İpek B. Karaman-Yılmazgil (Bilkent University), İrem Karamık (Hacettepe University, Mardin Artuklu University)
From Invisible Grief to Sculpted Memory: The “Comfort Women” and the Pursuit of Justice in South Korea
Maurício Luiz Borges Ramos Dias (San Tiago Dantas Graduate Program, UNESP/UNICAMP/PUC-SP)
Grieving for the ungrievable: Experiences of loss and memory on Manaus and New York mass graves during COVID-19
Mariana Cabral Campos (University of São Paulo)
Beyond Positive and Negative: A New Model for Analyzing Country Images Through Media
Huseyin Narlu (University of St Andrews)
Panel 3: Psychoanalysis, Memory, and Silence (4:20-5:50pm)
Discussant: Charlie Price (Warwick University)
Franco’s Long Shadow: Fantasies of Harmony and Affective Postmemories in Democratic Spain
Ellen Hietsch (University of Manchester)
To what extent do reconfigurations of time facilitate a greater understanding of the atmosphere of ‘perpetual crisis’ in East Asia?
Nigel Lee (University of St Andrews)
China's Imperial Memory an 'Objet perit a' at sea: An analysis of the Qin Dynasty
Meysune Yaşar (University of Exeter)
The gospel of war: Hopelessness as an affective product of the capitalist colonization of popular imagination
Alfonso Brito Bandeira (San Tiago Dantas Unesp, UNICAMP, PUC-SP)
Registration will close two hours before the event begins.