Project News

We are delighted to share that Anna Toropova, Principal Investigator of the Traumatised Minds Project, recently delivered a paper, 'Children’s Trauma in Late Stalinist Psychiatry and Culture,' at the Imagining the Child’s Mind Conference, held on 29–30 January 2026 at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The paper traced how childhood traumatisation became a thriving topic of research in Soviet psychiatry between 1917 and 1953. Tracing the intersection of psychiatric languages of trauma and vernacular expressions of mental distress, the paper explored how a series of films on children’s wartime experiences, including There Once Lived a Girl (Eisymont, 1943), echoed the medical interest in the impact of war on the child’s mind.

On 6 February 2026, Warwick Institute of Engagement and the Centre for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology are delighted to invite everyone to a film screening and panel discussion of the rare Ukrainian health education film For Women, About Women (directed by Yevheniia Hryhorovych, 1930), on women’s health.

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On 8-9 May 2025, the University of Warwick hosted the workshop titled Cultures of Trauma in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

The workshop marked the start of the Traumatised Minds project.

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The Center for the History of Medicine, Science, and Technology is excited to announce the first event of the five-year research initiative: Traumatised Minds: Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953.

An international workshop, Cultures of Trauma in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, is scheduled to take place at the University of Warwick (UK) on 8-9 May 2025.

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