STORYTELLING & TESTIMONY
EXPLORING DIMENSIONS OF TRAUMA AND SHAME
A Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference
Saturday 9th July – Sunday 10thJuly 2022
Athens, Greece
Conference Programme
Saturday 9th July 2022
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome to Event and Opening Words: Event Leader
09:30 – 11:00 Session 1: Creativity from Trauma
Chair: David Nash
From Collective Suicides to ‘Wake of Souls Immolated’. Suicides and the Post-Traumatic Living. Re-weaving the Living with Silences
Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette
Growing Through Trauma – An Artistic Exploration
Angharad Davies
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee, Tea and Refreshments
11:30 – 13.00 Session 2: Past Perspectives on Shame and Trauma Narratives in the West
Chair: Trevor Norris
Philosophers, Historians and Shame Since the Enlightenment
David Nash
From Vulnerability to Empowerment. Shame and Identity in Thomas Melle’s “Die Welt im Rücken” and Mithu Sanyal’s “Identitti”
Aglaia Kister
Figuring Failure: Art, Agonism and the Representation of Receded Narratives and Identities of Post-Conflict Borderlands
Jonathan Cummins
13.00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 3: Shame and Trauma in our Time of Crisis
Chair: Angharad Davies
Memory, Remembering and Forgetting: Indian Residential School Abuse in Canada
Cindy Hanson
Shame and Ecological Activism
Trevor Norris
Tricksters as Healers: Trickster Tales as Trauma Response
Alicia K. Anderson
15.30 – 16:00 Coffee, Tea and Refreshments
16.00– 17:30 Session 4: Remembering Trauma
Chair: Sarah Revilla Sanchez
The Ethics of Storytelling and the War on Terror: Trauma and/or Moral Injury?
Angelo Arminio
The Touristification of GDR Memorialization
Christopher S. Wilson & Gül Kaçmaz Erk
17:30 – 18:00 End of Opening Day Cross Session Discussion and Consolidation
18:00 Wine and Drinks Reception
Sunday 10th July 2022
09:30 – 10.30 Session 5: Workshop
Testimonies of Domestic Abuse: Where Do We Allow Truth to Shine Through
Carrie McManus & Andrea Silverstone
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee, Tea and Refreshments
11:00 – 12:30 Session 6: Shame Methodologies and Approaches
Chair: Jonathan Cummins
From Agony to Enlightenment: The Use of Creative Practice Led Research to Examine the Generative Capacity of Shame
Elizabeth Bellamy
Researching Shame and Trauma of the Past – Some Opening Questions
David Nash
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 7: Trauma, Art and Experience
Chair: Cindy Hanson
Portrait of a Woman: Leopoldo Savignac and Basque Photography in the First Half of the 20th Century: An Autoethnographic Investigation
Inés Rae
Compliance and Insight: Art and the Unspooling of Experience in Contested Institutional Contexts
Jonathan Cummins
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee, Tea and Refreshments
16:00 – 17:15 Session 8: Shame in Antiquity and Modernity
Chair: Alicia K. Anderson
Enacting Shame in the Hebrew Bible
David Lambert
Shame and Feminine Experience
Mina Rahnamael
17.15 – 17.45 Project Development Workshop – run by David Nash
17:45 – 18.00 End of Day Discussion, Closing Thoughts, Goodbyes