"Beyond Trauma"

An International & Interdisciplinary Conference

on Imagining

Ways to Move beyond a

Traumatic Past

Nice, France June 9-11, 2025

We invite scholars from the fields of cultural studies, psychiatry, clinical psychology, psychoanalysis, and the fine arts to join us at a conference on research (ethnographies, theories, and practices) that investigates more positive post-traumatic states, such as resistance, resilience, growth, retribution,and even healing. 

This conference is also organized to honor the research contributions of literary theorist and psychoanalyst Françoise Davoine.

 Proposed Conference Topics:

             Post-traumatic Resilience, Resistance, and Growth; Dissociative Behaviors as Healing; Madness and Healing; Positive Retaliation...

                            CONFERENCE PROGRAM                   

CONTACT US: beyondtraumaconference25@gmail.com

LEAD ORGANIZERS:

Suzanne LaLonde, PhD, Associate Professor of Literatures and Cultural Studies at UTRGV

Khalid, Aada, EdD. Lecturer III at UTRGV

Mario Gil, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at UTRGV

Michiyo Hirai, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Trauma and Anxiety Disorders Lab at UTRGV

Alexandre Gradoux, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Centre expert pédiatrique du psychotraumatisme CHU-Lenval, Nice

TEAM ORGANZIERS: 

Danielle Barber, pre-med student at UTRGV

Maria Montenegro, PhD student in psychology at UTRGV

Sarah Lancelin, Administrative Assistant at CNRS, France

THIS CONFERENCE IS SPONSORED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY (UTRGV), US &

CO-SPONSORED BY THE CENTRE EXPERT DU PSYCHOTRAUMATISME PEDIATRIQUE,CHU-LENVAL, HOPITAUX PEDIATRIQUES DE NICE, FRANCE

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