Book 1, Ep.5 | Trauma with Lucia M. Lorenzi, PhD.
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Special guest, Lucia M. Lorenzi, PhD, joins us to unpack trauma theory and helps us understand both the characters in Harry Potter and the world they inhabit as affected by traumatic events. We also explore the narrative form of the text itself—its gaps, inconsistencies, and unreliable narration as sites where trauma lives.
Content warning: this episode, broadly, discusses various experiences and consequences of trauma throughout. Of particular note are discussions around child abuse and neglect, starvation, parental death, nightmares, and flashbacks. Please take care of yourselves and feel free to skip this episode if you need.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:05.0 | welcome to Which Please, a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Marcel Kossman. |
| 0:11.0 | And I'm Hannah McGregor. |
| 0:13.0 | And we are thrilled this week to be introducing |
| 0:16.1 | a very special guest expert, who we might refer to |
| 0:20.4 | as a guest expert, depending on how much we like to challenge our own mouths. |
| 0:25.0 | Yeah, that was horrifying. |
| 0:29.0 | So our guest expert is Dr. Luc Lorenzie, who is a scholar, activist, and writer based out of Vancouver, BC. |
| 0:37.6 | She specializes in trauma theory in Canadian literature and drama with a broad focus on sexualized and gendered violence in |
| 0:44.4 | literature and other media. She is also an expert in the politics of coziness. |
| 0:49.3 | Welcome Lucia. Hello? |
| 0:53.1 | Hello. |
| 0:58.1 | I love watching you lean into that mic. |
| 0:59.8 | It's very like radio personality. |
| 1:03.2 | Yes. |
| 1:04.2 | So I thought, since we have a coziness expert on this episode and since the first episode we are recording in the |
| 1:18.4 | a terminal season and because we are having a conversation today about trauma, which can be a hard topic, |
| 1:26.6 | I thought maybe we should spend the sorting chat chatting about, not sorting, but cozy things. |
| 1:36.8 | How do we feel about having a conversation |
| 1:38.3 | about coziness? |
| 1:39.6 | Very good. |
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