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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Peter Locke, PhD 
Associate Professor of Instruction
Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies
Global Health Studies
Northwestern University

City of Survivors:
Psychological Trauma and Social Services in Post-War Sarajevo

In this presentation, Professor Locke will discuss his long-running ethnographic work on politics and experiences of psychological trauma in Sarajevo, capital of the postwar, ex-Yugoslav country of Bosnia-Herzegovina. In recent decades, the concept of psychological trauma has grown in prominence and impact around the world, increasingly bound up with transformed notions of citizenship, rights, and diverse politics of grievance, justice, and social repair. Tracking the story of a Sarajevo psychosocial support organization focused on transgenerational trauma across 25 years of operation, Professor Locke will highlight lessons to be learned for the politics of trauma and Global Mental Health today, consider how pandemic stress intersects with existing historical traumas in the region, and emphasize the ways in which context deeply matters in regarding—and intervening in—the pain of others.

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