Trauma and Dialogue

With Elana Shapira, department Cultural Studies

The symposium Trauma and Dialogue delves into traumatic experiences and their depiction through diverse artistic mediums. Against the backdrop of current sociopolitical developments and increasing polarization, we will discuss the role artistic dialogue plays in fostering resistance and resilience against authoritarian change.
With: Said Abu-Shakra, Galia Bar Or, Karin Berger, Georges Didi-Huberman, Daniela Finzi, Roger Frie, Lizaveta German, Anna Kim, Pavlo Makov, Monika Pessler, Doron Rabinovici, Anindya Raychaudhuri and Elana Shapira

Registration required.



Programme
9:30: Welcome Monika Pessler
Introductory Remarks Elana Shapira & Daniela Finzi
9:45-10:45: Opening Lecture Georges Didi-Huberman: Trauma, Testimony, Transmission
10:45-11:45: Conversation Karin Berger & Monika Pessler: Women’s Resistance: Trauma in Dialogue (in German)
Coffee Break
12:00-13:00: Lecture Anindya Raychaudhuri: „What unmakes us, makes us“: Food and Dialogue in Narratives of the 1947 India-Pakistan Partition
Lunch Break
14:00-15:00: Dialogue Galia Bar Or & Said Abu Shakra: Art as a Bridge in Times of Crises, moderated by Elana Shapira
15:00-16:00: Dialogue Pavlo Makov & Lizaveta German: Revisiting the “Fountain of Exhaustion”, moderated by Elana Shapira
Coffee Break
16:30-17:30: Dialogue Anna Kim & Doron Rabinovici: “People can handle the truth”, moderated by Daniela Finzi
17:30-18:00: Closing Remarks by Roger Frie
Symposium
Symposium
09. October 2026, 09:30 - 18:00
Sigmund Freud Museum, Berggasse 19, 1090 Vienna

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