The journal moves to the Johns Hopkins University Press.
In the first volume published by the Press:
- Shoah filmmaker Claude Lanzmann's talk on the Holocaust called “The Obscenity of Understanding” is published.
- Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, experts on the psychoanalysis of Holocaust survivors, write on trauma and witnessing in the piece “Truth and Testimony: The Process and the Struggle.”
- Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek contributes “Formal Democracy and Its Discontents.”
- Kai Erikson, American sociologist and authority on the social consequences of catastrophic events, contributes “Notes on Trauma and Community.”
- French essayist and philosophical theorist Georges Bataille writes on survivor accounts from Hiroshima: “Concerning the Accounts Given by the Residents of Hiroshima.”