11th September 2025
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Join us for the next Wollaston Research Seminar on Monday 13 October, either in-person at Wollaston Theological College campus, or online via Zoom.
The paper will discuss the significance of trauma theories for understanding the historiography of Israel and Judah. Highlighting evidence of Western bias in a number of recent studies, the argument suggests that a concept of “lateral violence” – which has been developed within Australian Indigenous studies of intergenerational trauma – can throw fresh light on the biblical idea of an emptied land. Two hermeneutical questions can then be raised: how was the imagination of empty land influential in the formation of Australian colonial ideology, and more broadly, what role can trauma-informed biblical studies play in decolonial politics?
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The Fall of Jerusalem: Cultural Trauma as a Process
5.00pm AEDT, Monday 13 October 2025
Hybrid, join via zoom at the link below or attend in person to 5 Wollaston Rd, Mount Claremont WA
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