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
Please send us your abstract (max. 250 words.) and a short biography by the end of 17 February to epir.group@bisa.ac.uk . We especially invite submissions from PhD/early-career researchers.
Registration will close two hours before the event begins.