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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
"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...
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...
How Beyond Trauma got started Medical Anthropologist Orkideh Behrouzan and Arabic and Comparative Literature-ist Nora Parr introduce themselves, their research, and...
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...