Legacies of War Trauma (360G-Wellcome-204659_Z_16_Z)

By bringing together scholars from the fields of Health Security, Sculpture, Literature, Gender, War Studies, History and practitioners from the British Military, two interdisciplinary and multi-institutional workshops will uncover and document the cultural and military legacies of war trauma. The goal of the first workshop, The Military Legacies of War Trauma, will explore how traumatic rhetoric has evolved alongside military strategy and the technologies of war throughout modern history to impact our perceptions of the military body and mind. The goal of the second workshop, The Cultural Legacies of War Trauma, will build on the first workshop and explore the broader impact of war trauma on society through the study of policy and cultural output: we intend to identify how war trauma has shaped societal attitudes towards the military and vice versa. The workshops will lead to output in the form of a co-authored article in Critical Military Studies, a special edition of Literature and Trauma Studies and more media-based pieces including a co-authored article in BBC History Magazine and a radio programme pitched to BBC Radio 4. The longer-term aim is to apply for a Wellcome Hub Award proposing a six-person Network for the Interdisciplinary study of War Trauma.