http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/archive/Theory/0703.html

Despite Cathy Caruth's claim in her landmark collection "Trauma: Explorations in Memory" that "trauma itself may provide the very link  between cultures," trauma has been infrequently explored from cross-cultural and non-Western perspectives. This panel seeks to examine the relationship between trauma and culture, to explore and possibly  critique the Eurocentric perspective of trauma studies, and to investigate the manner in which trauma reinvigorates psychoanalysis with the work of cultural critique.

Paper topics might consider the following questions:

How does culture theorize trauma? Do differentcultures and histories require different theories? What are the ethical problems involved in using European-originated theories for non-European or postcolonial traumatic histories? What are the ethics of cross-cultural comparisons  of trauma?

neither I read the book.. so I do not have the foggiest idea about cross-cultural trauma... no frigging clue. But the danger of imposing ethnocentrics vision of traumas or looking for traumas in places where tehere is none always exist....

But no idea....

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude