The Politics of Theorizing Trauma and Repair: Wagers Toward a Good Enough World
Thursday, September 10, 2026 from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
- In-person event
- A602, Loeb Building, 杏吧原创 University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
- Cost: Free
Political Science Speaker Series presents:
The Politics of Theorizing Trauma and Repair: Wagers Toward a Good Enough World
Maggie Fitzgerald, Associate Professor, Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Program Chair, Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan
Drawing on literature from international relations theory, this talk discusses the political stakes of theorizing trauma. It further argues that trauma researchers need to continue to expand understandings of trauma by developing a more nuanced grammar of vulnerability, and that they need to be reflexive in this process, articulating as clearly as possible the political stakes of wagering on one account of trauma, or one theory of vulnerability, or one conceptualization of harm and suffering, over another.