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How have conceptualizations of trauma evolved since 1945? What are the therapeutic and social consequences of representing trauma? How has visual art advanced our understanding of traumatic subjectivity, experience, and memory? This interdisciplinary course follows a historical trajectory from the most profound of collective traumas, the Holocaust, to the refinement of clinical definitions of trauma following the Vietnam War, to the advent of trauma studies in the 1990s, to the recent "pictorial turn" in scholarship on trauma as a means to examine the dynamics of trauma & its representation.