Afterlives of War
23-24 April, 2-18
Van-leer Jerusalem Institute
Monday 23 April, 13:00-17:00
13:05 – Alexander Edmonds (University of Edinburgh)
Opening Remarks
13:20 – Rakefet Zalashik (University of Edinburgh)
Experts’ perceptions on combat trauma: Intermediate insights
13:50 – Break
14:00 – Nir Gazit (Ruppin Academic Center)
Returning to “Reserve Soldiers as Trinsmigrants” after a decade: A valid or an untenable metaphor?
14:30 – Yochai Ataria (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Body disownership in Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
15:00 – Coffee Break
15:20 – Roy Gigengack (University of Edinburgh and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
“Leaving no one behind”, and the politics of PTSD: Notes on the Dutch veterans’ mental health care
15:50 – Roundtable discussion
17:00 – Reception
Tuesday 24 April, 10:00-17:00
10:00 – Zohar Rubinstein (Tel-Aviv University and IDC Herzliya)
Shell shock: a historical perspective)
10:30 – Galia Plotkin-Amrami (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
National Trauma in Israel: the genealogy of a concept
11:00 – Alexander Edmonds (University of Edinburgh)
PTSD at the intersection of military and psychiatric institutions
11:30 – Coffee Break
11:45 – Irit Keynan (The Center for Academic Studies)
PTSI: is the psychiatric establishment afraid of calling war trauma in its right name?
12:15 – Roundtable Discussion
13:00 – Lunch Break
14:00 – Miriam Schiff (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Dan Segev (The Ministry of Defense Rehabilitation Department)
Predictors of Integration in the workplace of IDF veterans with disabilities from Operation ‘Protective Edge’: research plan
14:30 – Guy Paikowsky (University of Edinburgh)
“Trauma play”, camaraderie and care among Israeli Defense Forces veterans with PTSD.
15:00 – Coffee Break
15:20 – Shaxaf Haber (independent photographer)
The seen and unseen of trauma
16:00 – Roundtable Discussion
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