COML 6156

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COML 6156
Trauma Theory Today

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

This course examines the history, and historicity, of the theory of trauma at crucial moments in the 20th and 21st centuries. We will examine major theoretical texts in relation to their historical contexts and more recent attempts to expand the field in new directions, including terrorism, nuclear threat, ecological catastrophe, neuroscience, legal contexts, political discourse, theological discourse, and non-Western contexts.. Questions will concern the nature of history, event, and testimonial archive as well as the changing question of (the language of) witness in a world in which traumatic repetition is bound up with historical erasure. Guest speakers include Robert Jay Lifton, Shoshana Felman, Elisabeth Weber, Elizabeth Rottenberg, John Zilkosky, Peter Balakian, Carolyn Dean, among others.

When Offered Spring.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6430

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17228 COML 6156   SEM 101

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