REMEMBERING DISASTERS :Between individual and collective memory

This research, in collaboration with Rebecca Clifford at Swansea University (U.K.), is an interdisciplinary project aimed at bringing together the methods of psychology and history to explore the transition from individual to collective memory. To do this, we chose to explore two similar events that took place in Aberfan (Wales, 1966), where the collapse of a slag heap on a school caused the death of 144 people, many of them children, and in Plateau d'Assy (Haute-Savoie, 1966), where a landslide buried a sanatorium and caused the death of 71 people, 56 of them children.
 
Financement : IDEX Grenoble-Alpes et Université de Swansea
Chercheurs : Céline Souchay-Lucrèce Heux