Both historically and today, the societies of Eastern Europe have been shaped in many ways by political and social violence, by war and genocide, expulsion, and persecution. Especially from a Western perspective, these experiences have increasingly been framed in terms of collective or individual trauma.

The interdisciplinary conference seeks to shift perspectives in three interrelated areas of ethnographic, historical-anthropological, and ethno-psychoanalytic research. The contributions reflect on concepts of the traumatic in both historical and contemporary Eastern European contexts, they broaden and problematize the methodological repertoire of ethnography by incorporating subject-oriented research with and about people who have experienced violence in Eastern European settings, and they investigate the places, resonances, and practices of traumatic collective memories.

Conference lectures and discussions are held in English language.

Registration is now closed.

The public keynotes will be streamed online, no registration required: https://uni-graz.zoom.us/j/61911992267?pwd=TsguYaUVGyKTbhbMsPHrMFhfgublTh.1