Hamburg, December 13, 2005

To all interested in the work of the Trauma Research Net,

The TRN-Newsletter´s news-ticker section is updated every three months.
The news-ticker Winter 2005-2006 is now online. To gain access, you are kindly asked to register for the informal membership in our research network.
The news-ticker delivers a continous stream of information about trauma-related research, lectures, events, new websites, working-groups, etc. and keeps you up to date with the latest trauma research briefs online. Since Summer 2004 Newsticker, we've added a new section to call your attention to the latest publications from Trauma Research Net Members. If you have anything about your own publications or general trauma-related news to add, please contact the editor via Cornelia.Berens@his-online.de

Please go to http://www.traumaresearch.net, click on 'newsletter' at the top left and fill in the registration form which opens below of the login-field.
Soon after we´ve received your registration, you will be given a password which allows your access to the complete TRN-Newsletter.

TRN-Newsletter 1 brings VIDEO TESTIMONIES into focus. You will find contributions from Ulrike Jureit, Nathan Durst, Dori Laub, Johanna Bodenstab, Jessica Wiederhorn, Cathy S. Gelbin, Gillian Caldwell und Margarete Schauer.

TRN-Newsletter 2 concentrates on trauma within the limits of literature (and literary studies) and is online since August 22, 2004.
TRAUMATIC HISTORY: SPEAKING THE VOID IN LITERATURE
Geoffrey H. Hartman, Trauma within the limits of literature
Sven Kramer, Talking around trauma: on the relationship between trauma, narration, and catharsis in literature (on Stefan Zweig and Jean Améry)
Anja Lemke, How to speak? Non-semantic representation of the Shoah in the writings of Paul Celan
Birgit R. Erdle, The rhetoric of the void and its ambiguities (on Patrick Modiano´s book "Dora Bruder")
Kay Sulk, Zoé etc. - J.M. Coetzee, Biopolitics and Testimony. Abstract

The newsletter also presents several reviews, a comprehensive book list, conference reports and quite a few articles in its forum section.

TRN-Newsletter 3 with focus on "Traumatic effects of political repression and imprisonment in the former GDR" will come out in spring 2006. The Trauma Research Net´s website is currently being re-designed and will be relaunched together with publication of issue 3 of the Newsletter on the web.

TRN-Newsletter 4 dealing with research on trauma, victimology, and restorative justice is in preparation for fall 2006.
Shortly before Christmas or at the latest on January 8, 2006, will also be releasing previously unpublished texts from a 2004 forum organized as part of the scholarship program of the Heinrich Boell Foundation. These four papers on the notion of trauma in psychology and cultural studies were presented last year and are now ready for publication. The texts will be available in German with English abstracts. In a departure from the procedures otherwise adhered to by the Trauma Research Net, we have agreed in this case to make the complete papers available to all internet users without restriction.

Last, but not least, Iet me remind you of our Call for Papers for the 3rd International Trauma Research Net which can be found at
URL http://www.traumaresearch.net/remarks/fr_conf_stigma.htm

Best wishes from Hamburg,
Cornelia Berens

Trauma Research Net (International Network for Interdisciplinary Research about the Impact of Traumatic Experience on the Life of Individuals and Society)
Cornelia Berens, M.A.
Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung
Hamburg Institute for Social Research
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