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Teaching Resources on Normal and Abnormal, Pathology, and Othering
Trauma discourses are deeply embedded in debates on normality and pathology. This sample reading encourages students to think critically...
Orkideh Behrouzan
Nov 16, 20194 min read
Teaching Resources on the Social Construction of Trauma
This is a sample reading list I have used for introducing students to the history of the concept and discourses of trauma in...
Orkideh Behrouzan
Nov 16, 20196 min read
Teaching Resources on the Refugee Condition and Displacement
Sample Readings from Syllabus: Displacement, Refugees, and the Transnational Flow This week we will examine ongoing debates on what has...
Orkideh Behrouzan
Nov 16, 20192 min read
Teaching Resources on Representation and the Middle East
Sample from Syllabus: Crisis of Representation: Ruptures, Subjectivities, and the Middle Eastern Condition “What is the task of...
Orkideh Behrouzan
Nov 16, 20194 min read
Teaching Resources on Memory, Trauma, Ruptures, Representation, and Identity Politics
Film has been a very powerful teaching resource for engaging students with the lived life of traumatic experiences and especially wars. I...
Orkideh Behrouzan
Nov 16, 20193 min read
Teaching Resources on the Production of Knowledge from the Global South
What would an anthropological investigation of 'trauma studies' look like? I have used this section in my teaching in order to urge...
Orkideh Behrouzan
Nov 16, 20192 min read
New TEDx Talk: Rethinking Mental Health and the Afterlife of War
Our December 2018 TEDx talk at London's TEDxUCLWomen DISRUPT is now online! “Dr Orkideh Behrouzan is a physician, medical anthropologist,...
Orkideh Behrouzan
Nov 16, 20191 min read
Elias Khoury on the Eloquence of Silence - With Nora Parr
In October 2018 renowned Lebanese writer and public intellectual Elias Khoury joined Nora Parr at SOAS for the English-language launch of...
Orkideh Behrouzan
Nov 16, 20191 min read
"Exploring the narrativization of suffering" -Landmark discussions on Trauma in Middle East Studies
A landmark issue of Middle East Topics and Arguments came out this week. Issue 11 on the topic of Trauma is a well-timed and essential...
Orkideh Behrouzan
Nov 16, 20191 min read
Essential Reading - Arabic Literature and Postcolonial Studies on Trauma Theory
There has been a lot of work on trauma and memory studies through literature that observes the absence of work on the field from within...
Orkideh Behrouzan
Nov 16, 20191 min read
How Beyond Trauma got started
Medical Anthropologist Orkideh Behrouzan and Arabic and Comparative Literature-ist Nora Parr introduce themselves, their research, and...
Orkideh Behrouzan
Nov 16, 20191 min read
Teaching Resources - Comparing traumas?in Comparative Literature
Reading Violence in Comparative Literature - Arabic, Trauma, and new frames The readings below are designed for a guest lecture in a...
Orkideh Behrouzan
Nov 16, 20192 min read
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