GHI2019 Leaders, Cults and Trauma

Recorded July 15, 2019. Professor Nebojša Blanuša (University of
Zagreb) and Professor Balázs Apor (Trinity College Dublin) examine
the role of various carriers of influence—political, military and
religious leaders—as potential sources of cultural trauma. Leaders
are often described as the main characters in the narratives of
cultural trauma, and can assume simultaneously, the status of
villains as well as heroes. The panel explores such opposite
imaginations, their dynamics and political effects. The speakers
also address the cultic veneration of leaders (modern dictators)
and the way such cults were developed and promoted with the aim of
diminishing the impact of perceived historical traumas (collapse of
empire, war, genocide, etc.). Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/