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Please note that as our conference will be international we took into consideration different time zones but the hours specified in the program refers to the time in Poland, Warsaw (CET). 

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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

 

THURSDAY, 26 March 2026

1.00 PM – 3.30 PM: Conference Opening and Session I

Chair: Wojciech Owczarski (University of Gdansk, Poland)

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Marina Ragachewskaya (University of Gdansk, Poland)
“Bog Bodies”: The Iron-Age Inherited Trauma (Poetic and Fictional Representations)

Justina Šumilova (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Lithuania)
Writing Your Own Death: Trauma, Absence, and Pain in Maurice Blanchot’s Instant de ma Mort

Faten Haouioui (University of Carthage, Tunisia)
Trauma and Resilience of “Virgin Delivery” and Sex Slaves in Burma’s Comfort Stations: Case Study – Flutter, Flutter, Butterfly: Age 15. Abused byThousands of Soldiers by Mihee Eun, 2017

Emilija Micković (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
Haunting, History and Memory in The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut

Marzia Dessi (The European Graduate School [EGS] Saas-Fee, Switzerland)
The Alterity Industry and the Psychological Border: Trauma, Nightmare, and the Ethics of the DACA Narrative

3.30 PM – 4.30 PM: BREAK

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4.30 PM – 6.30 PM: Session II

Chair: Thomas Doroff (Regis University, Denver, Colorado USA)

 

JD Davids (CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, USA)
Nightmare as Resistance: Queer Dreams of Trans Disabled Healing, Survival, and Collective World-Making in Crisis

Rachael Green (Colorado State University, USA)
The Moral Status of the Unconscious: Are We Responsible for What We Dream?

Thomas Doroff (Regis University, Denver, Colorado USA) and Chaya M. Abrams (University of Colorado-Denver, USA)
Living the Nightmare of Trauma Flashbacks

Liam Mahoney (Independent Researcher)
A Phenomenologically-Oriented View into Nightmares and Suicidal Ideation

6.30 PM – 7.30 PM: BREAK

7.30 PM – 10.00 PM: Session III

Chair: To be confirmed

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Kaiming Zhang (The New School of Social Research, USA)
Rethinking Trauma with Deleuze: Beyond Death as “Drive”

Brian Gilmour (University of Guelph, Canada)
Trapped in the Perpetual Nightmare Machine

Nick Pozek (Columbia University, USA)
Wounds Without Witnesses: Cultural Repatriation, Truth Commissions, and Trauma in Post-Conflict Societies

Joanna Nowicka (Angelus Silesius University of Applied Sciences in Walbrzych, Poland)
Hidden Wounds, Visible Leadership: The Impact of Family Trauma on Management in Family Businesses

Chaya M. Abrams (University of Colorado-Denver, USA)
How Diasporic Recipes Inform Intergenerational Food Relationships and Health: A Grounded Theory

FRIDAY, 27 March 2026

12.30 PM – 3.00 PM: Session IV

Chair: Konstantina Kliagkona (Individual Researcher, University of Portsmouth,UK)

 

Kerstin Hecker (Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA)
Between Us: Trauma-Conditioned Sensitivity and the Transpersonal Field

Kevin Martens Wong (Independent Researcher)
Hereili and the Makaravedra or Dragon Reborn Magnaarchetype in Revitalised Kristang Culture

András Lénárt (University of Szeged, Hungary)
Without Mercy: Chile’s “Colonia Dignidad” and its Role in Historical Memory

Konstantina Kliagkona (Individual Researcher, University of Portsmouth, UK)
“When silence speaks louder than words”: Unraveling Society’s Collective Wound via the “Genovese” Phenomenon

Przemysław Bollin (Independent Researcher)
Silence as a Nightmare: Strategies of Non-Disclosure of Sexual Trauma in
Intergenerational Transmission in Post-1945 Poland

3.00 PM – 4.00 PM: BREAK

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4.00 PM – 6.30 PM: Session V

Chair: Jennifer Popple (Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, USA)

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Madhuvratha K. V. (University of Madras, India)
Dark Motherhood: The Shadow of Scientific Motherhood

Ellen Caroline Vieira de Paiva (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Trauma and Nightmare as Threshold Arrangements: David Lynch and the
Ontology of Sensible Destabilization

Jennifer Popple (Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, USA)
Reading (Between) the Lines: Trauma in Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap

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Habib Zanzana (University of Scranton, USA)

The Buried Self: Recurring Nightmare and the Weight of History in Federico
Gianotti's Leni

Thailly Magdalena Rea (Eastern Illinois University, USA)

Title to be confirmed

6.30 PM – 7.30 PM: BREAK

7.30 PM – 10.00 PM: Session VI

Chair: Javier Aguirre (Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile)

Kryštof Kočtář (Masaryk University in Brno, the Czech Republic)

“Death as the impossibility of dying”: Trauma and the Self-Reflective Dimension of Writing in the Texts of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando

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Javier Aguirre (Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile)

Trauma and Nightmare in Leonel Lienlaf´s Poetry

 

Eliasu Yusuf Ibrahim (University of South Dakota, USA)

Reimagining Trauma: Beyond Belatedness and Memory

 

Aysenur Zaza (Independent Researcher) Casualties of Cumulative Violence: Trauma Redefined in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca

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Muhammad Manzur Alam (University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, USA) Hybrid Realism and Ecological Trauma in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island

10.00 PM: Conference Closing