Engaging with Historical Traumas

Nena Mocnik is a researcher at CY Cergy Paris Université, France. She is the author of Sexuality after War Rape: From Embodied to Narrative Research and Trauma Transmission and Sexual Violence: Peacebuilding and Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Societies.Ger Duijzings is Professor of Social Anthropology (with focus on southeastern and eastern Europe) at Universität Regensburg, Germany. He has published extensively on the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, and was a researcher and expert witness at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).Hanna Meretoja is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory at the University of Turku, Finland. She has authored The Ethics of Storytelling (2018) and co-edited (with Colin Davis) The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma (2020).Bonface Njeresa Beti is an African multidisciplinary practitioner. He has co-published book chapters and journal articles. He is a committee member of NADTA and board member of Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed. He has an MA degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Manitoba in Canada and has been admitted to the European Graduate School to pursue his PHD.