HMNG 230: Memory and Trauma

Course Description

This course engages a Southeast Asian refugee lens to critically examine trauma and memory beyond a biomedical paradigm. We will examine trauma and memory as social, political, and cultural experiences that is always in relationship between individual and collective identity, history and the present, representation and experience, and facts and memory. This course seeks to answer the following questions: How does one grapple and make sense of violence, loss, and trauma? How does one remember and commemorate these experiences? What does trauma and memory teach us about our relationships to one another?