Trauma and Memory online workshop
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Nowadays, the notions of trauma, traumatic experiences and traumatic events are used in very heterogeneous ways. Traumatic experiences are a polysemy, sometimes involving a diagnosis (one of PTSD), sometimes involving particular ways of being (feeling stuck in time), sometimes involving the unliveability of a particular social life, and capturing much more. While conceptual difficulties persist, it is evident that traumatic experiences have the potential to disturb one’s memory because of their negative emotional charge, for example, and the feeling that one’s memory is no longer under one’s control. Nonetheless, philosophers of memory have, to date, largely neglected connections between trauma and memory, failing to see what effects traumatic experiences have on one’s ability to remember the past and envision a future for oneself. This conference aims to fill this gap by exploring the connections between memory and trauma in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.
Schedule
2pm CET / 8am EDT
Michelle Maiese (Emmanuel College Boston, US)
Trauma, Dissociation, and Relational Authenticity
Chris Brewin (University College London, UK)
Understanding Memory in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder– the Dual Representation Approach
Felipe de Brigard (Duke University, US)
“Repressed Memory” Makes No Sense
2pm CET / 8am EDT
Heidi Maibom (University of Cincinnati, US & University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Perspective in Trauma
Şerife Tekin (University of Texas at San Antonio, US) & Clare Batty (University of Kentucky, US)
Olfactory Triggered PTSD: A Case Study for the Philosophy of Perception and Psychiatry
Katie Harster (Boston College, US)
Symptoms of Trauma and Stories of Self
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