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LOCATION:The Heyman Center\, Second Floor Common Room
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SUMMARY:Life Writing Against Cultural Trauma:The Special Case of Swi
 tzerland & Swiss Writer Thomas Hürlimann
DESCRIPTION:In current debates about Brexit\, right wing populism\, the 
 crisis of democracy and the future of Europe Switzerland doe
 s not feature much\, although it provides an intriguing case 
 from a variety of angles. It is praised for its direct democ
 racy and hailed as a model for Europe\, yet it also receives 
 sustained criticism as an opportunistic and self-serving tax
  haven for dictators and drug barons. It has one of the bigg
 est and loudest right-wing populist parties in Europe\, yet i
 t integrates it fairly successfully into its system of conse
 nsus politics. One of its intriguing\, yet under-discussed co
 ntradictions is that while it is arguably among the most unt
 raumatized countries in history\, it very effectively mobiliz
 es the rhetoric of cultural trauma for its isolationist and 
 xenophobic policies and for its wider identity narratives. 
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