Project
Aesthetics of Trauma: Transgenerational Memory and the Poetics of Repair
Interest in the study of the traumatic repercussions of violent histories on descendants of victims and survivors has proliferated in the sub-field of memory and trauma studies, with earlier research in the field focusing mainly on descendants of Holocaust survivors.
Publication
Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles
Savelsberg, Joachim J. 2021. Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles. University of California Press. https://doi...
Project
Dying to forget: History, memory and the intergenerational transfer of trauma in South Africa
THIS project is about the discipline of history and the intergenerational transfer of trauma in South Africa.
Project
Commemorating Painful Pasts through Performative Practices
The 19th and the beginning of the 20th century have left a dark legacy behind: world wars, genocides, civil wars, dictatorships and terrorist attacks with millions of people tortured, persecuted, displaced, dead, or disappeared without a trace.
