Spring symposium in Budapest, May 9th-11th 2014

In collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Studies,
Central European University

PROGRAMME as of February 5th 2014

Venue: Central European University, Main Building,
Nador u. 9, 1051 Budapest

FRIDAY 9^th

09.00-09.30 Opening address with presentation round

09.30-10.20 ANDRÉ HAYNAL – Listening To Fanatics Commentaries of a Psychoanalyst

10.30-11.20 LENE AUESTAD – Speech, Repetition, Renewal

11.30-12.20 JONATHAN DAVIDOFF – Known Kinship or Subjectivity

12.30-13.20 KINGA GÖNCZ – Rhetorics of Power – Can it Dress up the Naked King?

13.20-15.00 Lunch

15.00-15.50 WERNER PRALL – To Be or Bartleby: Psychoanalysis and the Crisis of Immunity

16.00-16.50 JANE FRANCES – Appearance, Fashion, Power: How do We Know How to Look?

17.00-17.50 EDWARD WEISBAND – The Rhetorics of Power and The Power of Rhetoric: Reification, Hate And Desire: A Psychopolitical Analysis of Mass Atrocity and Genocide

18.00-18.50 JULIA BOROSSA – Histories of Violence: Outrage, Identification and Being Alongside

(Joint dinner, covered by the organizers, in the evening)

SATURDAY 10^th

09.00-09.50 KATHLEEN KELLEY – From Totalitarian to Democratic Functioning: The Psychic Economy of Infantile Processes

10.00-10.50 FERENC ERÔS – Ferenc Mérei and the Politics of Psychoanalysis in Hungary

11.00-11.50 JONATHAN SUNLEY – Open Borders, Open Doors and Anxiety Some Thoughts on the Role of Defences from a Psychodynamic Perspective

12.00-12.50 KALINA STAMENOVA – The Invisible Other(s)

12.50-14.30 Lunch

14.30-15.20 MARGARITA PALACIOS – Guilt and the Politics of Knowing: A Reflection on Post War Academic Cultures

15.30-16.20 AGNÈS HELLER – The Role of Political Commitment (Weltanschauung) in Autobiographical Memory

16.30-17.20 AMAL TREACHER KABESH – Worrying Indifference: Sacrificing the Other

17.30-18.20 JULIA RICHTER – Intergenerational Layers of Silence: How the Concealed or the Outspoken Remain Undiscussable

18.30-19.20 JUDIT SZEKACS-WEISZ – Unto the Third Generation…The Return of the Original Trauma

(Joint dinner, covered by the organizers, in the evening)

SUNDAY 11^th

09.00-09.50 TIJANA MILOSAVLJEVIĆ-ČAJETINAC – Totalitarianism as the Radical Denial of Desire

10.00-10.50 JENYU PENG – Selective Memory and Halfway Justice: The Legacies of “White Terror” In Taiwan

11.00-11.50 RIVKA WARSHAWSKY – The Obscenity of the Normative “We” and the Possible Constitution of Other Kinds of “We”

12.00-12.50 SHAUL BAR-HAIM – Geza Róheim and the Maternal ‘Over-I’: European Fascism as a Crisis of Motherhood

12.50-14.30 Lunch

14.30-15.20 STEFFEN KRÜGER – Discourse Analytical and Psychoanalytical Inquiries into the Rhetorics of Power

15.30-16.20 SZYMON WRÓBEL – Logos, Ethos and Pathos or The Paradigm of Patho-Politics

16.30-17.20 LUCIA CORTI – Letters from The Unknown: Psychoanalysis and the Ethics of Knowing

17.30-18.20 Closing discussion, feedback about the conference

The conference lasts for three full days, from about 9 am until about 6 pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The time frame for each paper is 30 min for the presentation itself + 20 min for discussion, 50 min in total, and with a 10 min break in between each paper.

This is an interdisciplinary conference – we include theoretical contributions and historical, literary or clinical case studies on these and related themes from philosophers, sociologists, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, group analysts, literary theorists, historians and others. Perspectives from different psychoanalytic schools are most welcome. We promote discussion among the presenters and participants, for the symposium series creates a space where representatives of different perspectives come together, engage with one another’s contributions and participate in a community of thought. Therefore, attendance to the whole symposium is encouraged and priority will be given to those who plan to do so. Due to the nature of the forum audio recording is not permitted.

This is a relatively small symposium where active participation is encouraged and an enjoyable social atmosphere sought. A participation fee, which includes two shared dinners, of £150 (or € 178) before February 15^th 2014 – £180 (or € 214) after February 15^th 2014 is to be paid before the symposium. Fees must be covered by a bank transfer/international bank transfer. Your place is only confirmed once we have received your completed registration form as well as your payment. To sign up, please e-mail: moc.liamgnull@scitilop.sisylanaohcysp

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer travel grants or other forms of financial assistance for this event, though we will be able to assist you in finding affordable accommodation. Please contact us if you wish to make a donation towards the conference. We thank all donors in advance!

Note 1. The use of the terms ‘it’ and ‘over-I’ draws on Bettelheim’s critique of the standard English translation of Freud in Freud and Man’s Soul.

PROGRAMME as of July 19th 2013

SUMMER SYMPOSIUM, ULSTEINVIK, NORWAY, JULY 29^th – AUGUST 5^th 2013

This symposium interrogates the potential political role of psychoanalytic thinking and reflects on psychoanalytic understandings of action, activism, ‘engagement’ and ‘neutrality’ within and beyond the frame of the consulting room.

LENE AUESTAD – Speech, Action, Repetition, Renewal

SVETLANA BARDINA – A radical political action: transgression of the symbolic order or  pure madness?

JULIA BOROSSA, keynote speaker – The Disavowals of Psychoanalysis: The Politics of Complicity, and
Structures of Witnessing: The Expansive Family

KATE BROWN – Antigone Revisited. Greek Mythology through an Attachment Lens

DMITRY CHERNOBROV – Phantasy in Explaining the Unknown: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Western Reactions to the Arab Spring

JONATHAN DAVIDOFF – Literary Sinthomes: Political Speech Acts

ARTHUR EATON – Winnicott & Time travel

ADRIAN HOWE – Othello and his Syndrome – Morbid Sexual Jealousy in Shakespeare and Late Modernity (Sexual Infidelity Homicide, a Case Study of Disavowal)

ANNA IOANNOU – Documenting Psychoanalysis, an impossible act?

KIRSTEN KLERCKE – Philosophical Considerations – Psychoanalysis, Language and Democracy

CHARIS KONTOU – Acting Out: The Action of the Double Self

MERSIJA MAGLAJLIC – The Potential of Reformulation of Memory for Political Action

CHRISTOS PALLAS – The ‘Ex-timacy’ of Racism: Politics, the Law and Social Critique

AGNIESZKA PIOTROWSKA – Documentary Film as an Intervention into Telling History – (A Portrayal of Commitment to Desire but also the Evidence of a Betrayal – A Lacanian Perspective)

RENÉ RASMUSSEN – Psychoanalysis as Subversion: The Discourse of Capitalism and the Restitution of the Subject

MILENA STATEVA – The Limits of Action in Psychoanalysis. The Violent Enigma of Gender

LINDEN WEST – Learning Democracy and Fundamentalism: Some Psychoanalytic Insights from Auto/Biographical Research

Please note that the call for papers is now closed. If you would like to sign up to participate without presenting a paper, please e-mail us to let us know by June 15th 2013, and say a few words about yourself if you have not participated in previous Psychoanalysis and Politics symposia.

E-mail: moc.liamgnull@scitilop.sisylanaohcysp

WINTER SYMPOSIUM IN HELSINKI 15^th to 17^th of MARCH 2013

IN COLLABORATION WITH THE FINNISH PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY

PROGRAMME as of January 7^th 2013

Venue: House of the Estates, (Säatytalo) Snellmansgatan 9-11

Recent eruptions of conflict, revolt and discontent have been radical and unexpected. The Arab Spring, the UK Riots or the Occupy movement are some examples of these. Furthermore, the recent violent right-wing attacks in Europe exemplify underlying conflict in the contemporary political climate. This symposium raises the questions of how to evaluate and to think about these phenomena. A further question is that of to what extent these events challenge the limits of psychoanalytic conceptualisation.

FRIDAY 15^th

09.00-09.30 Opening address

09.30-10.20 JUSSI KOTKAVIRTA – Resistances to Recognition

10.30-11.20 LENE AUESTAD – Action, Revolt, Repetition

11.30-12.20 JONATHAN DAVIDOFF – Irruption from the Real

12.30-13.20 IMKE BRUST – The Return of the Repressed – Arendt and Fanon on Rage Against the State

13.20-15.00 Lunch

15.00-15.50 CHARIS KONTOU – Melancholia after the Economic and Social Collapse in Greece – A Psychoanalytic Approach

16.00-16.50 JASON GLYNOS & SAVVAS VOUTYRAS – Fantasies of Nationhood: A Critical Exploration of the Responses to the Greek Economic Crisis from a Psychoanalytic Perspective

17.00-17.50 PHILIP HEWITT – “Understanding the Social Superego Analogously to the Psychic”. Working in High School Communities in South Africa

18.00-18.50 AGNIESZKA PIOTROWSKA – Racial Relations in Zimbabwe through the Lens of Harare International Festival of the Arts – Mimicry or Hybridity and Integration?  Violence or Progress?

(Joint dinner, covered by the organizers, in the evening)

SATURDAY 16^th

09.00-09.50 AMAL TREACHER KABESH – The Egyptian Revolution: Shards, Repetition and Identification

10.00-10.50 STEFFEN KRÜGER – ‘Disrupted Eruptions’: Depth-Hermeneutic Readings of the ‘Repressed Returns’ of VG Nett’s My 22^nd of July

11.00-11.50 SVEIN TJELTA – Identity Building in Large Training Groups

12.00-12.50 JANE FRANCES – From Seeing to Feeling and Relating – What is the Role of Cultural Experiences in Shaping our Spontaneous Responses to Disfigurement?

12.50-14.30 Lunch

14.30-15.20 SARA LAHTINEN – The Importance of Ambivalence in Cultural Identity Formation

15.30-16.20 ESZTER SALGÓ – Europhile Technocrats and Eurosceptic Populists: Battle of Dreams in the European Union

16.30-17.20 NICHOLAS SMITH – “DJ Mr. C, you nasty African!” Husserl and the postcolonial feminists

17.30-19.00 Group reflection session conducted by SVEIN TJELTA

(Joint dinner, covered by the organizers, in the evening)

SUNDAY 17^th

09.00-09.50 JAY FRANKEL – The Traumatic Basis for the Resurgence of Right-Wing Politics among the American Working-Class

10.00-10.50 MARGARITA PALACIOS – Past as future? Spectres of Marx, Freud and Benjamin

11.00-11.50 BIMAL DAHAL – A Study on the Terrorist Rationalities in Nepal

12.00-12.50 Joint discussion with Circle 6

12.50-14.30 Lunch

14.30-15.20 MAIRÉAD HANRAHAN – Pardoning the Impardonable: Hélène Cixous’s The Perjured City

15.30-16.20 NATALIE KAMBER – Landscapes of the Dispossessed: The Return of the Repressed in Dubravka Ugresic’s A Culture of Lies.

16.30-17.20 SZYMON WRÓBEL – The Return of Alcibiades. A Tale on Repression of Eros

17.30-18.20 Summing up, discussion of future conferences.

Presentations are expected to take half an hour; another 20 min. is set aside for discussion. There is a 10 min. break in between each paper. Please make sure that your paper fits the time-frame; if it exceeds 30 min., the time for discussion will be reduced.

This is an interdisciplinary conference – we invite theoretical contributions and historical, literary or clinical case studies on these and related themes from philosophers, sociologists, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, group analysts, literary theorists, historians and others. Perspectives from different psychoanalytic schools will be most welcome. We emphasise room for discussion among the presenters and participants, thus the symposium series creates a space where representatives of different perspectives come together and engage with one another’s contributions, participating in a community of thought. Therefore, we would like you to attend for the whole symposium, and we will give priority to those who plan to do so. Due to the nature of the forum audio recording is not permitted.

This is a relatively small symposium where active participation is encouraged. Researchers, clinicians, students and others who are interested are invited to attend and present their work in a friendly and enjoyable social atmosphere. A participation fee, which includes two shared dinners, of € 155 – 1155 NOK – 1338 SEK – 1156 DKK – £ 125 – $ 201 – 108 LVL –
535 LTL,  is to be paid before the symposium. Fees must be covered by a bank transfer/international bank transfer. Your place is only confirmed once we have received your completed registration form as well as your payment. To sign up, please e-mail: moc.liamgnull@scitilop.sisylanaohcysp

AUTUMN SYMPOSIUM IN LONDON 19^th and 20^th of OCTOBER 2012
Venue: British Psychoanalytical Society, 112a Shirland Road

The symposium questions the junctions of the private and the public when it comes to trauma, loss and the work of mourning, which challenge our very notions of the individual and the shared, asking: What do we mean by working through the past?                                          

Friday 19^th             

9.00-9.30 Opening address

9.30-10.30 JUDIT SZEKACS-WEISZ – Separation in Exile

10.40-11.40 LENE AUESTAD – Time and Memory

11.50-12.50 JONATHAN DAVIDOFF – To Mend the World: Trauma and Containment

12.50-02.00 Lunch

2.00 – 3.00 KARL FIGLIO – The Differences between Public and Private Mourning

3.10-4.10 JANE FRANCES – Trauma, Dis-integration and Stasis – Simplification and Perpetual Conflict

4.20-5.30 JULIA BOROSSA –Violence, Trauma and Masculinity: Compromise Formations of Mourning and Survival in Contemporary Lebanese Literature

5.40-7.00 Group reflection session, conducted by SVEIN TJELTA

Saturday 20^th

9.30-10.30 DAVID BELL – The Psychoanalyst in the Immigration Court

10.40-11.40 FERENC ERÓS – ‘Postmemory Syndrome’ in New Hungarian Literature

11.50-12.50 MARGARITA PALACIOS – Decolonizing Trauma and the Ethics of Anxious Witnessing

12.50-2.00 Lunch

2.00-3.00 PETER MORRALL – Psychotherapy and Social Responsibility: Homicide

3.10-4.10 LUCIA CORTI – The Found Children of the Disappeared: Recovered Identities

4.20-5.30 VIC SEIDLER – Silent Loss, Embodied Memories and Impossible Mournings

5.40-7.00 General discussion, feedback, about future conferences

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND POLITICS is a conference series that aims to address how crucial contemporary political issues may be fruitfully explored through psychoanalytic theory, and vice versa: how political issues may reflect back on psychoanalytic thinking. The series is interdisciplinary; we invite theoretical contributions and historical, literary or clinical case studies from philosophers, sociologists, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, group analysts, literary theorists, historians and others. Perspectives from different psychoanalytic schools are most welcome. We emphasise room for discussion among the presenters and participants, thus the symposium series creates a space where representatives of different perspectives come together and engage with one another’s contributions, participating in a community of thought.

The conference fee, which includes lunch and dinner Friday and Saturday, is £ 155. To sign up, please e-mail: moc.liamgnull@scitilop.sisylanaohcysp

SHARED TRAUMAS, SILENT LOSS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MOURNING

AUTUMN SYMPOSIUM IN LONDON 19^th and 20^th of OCTOBER 2012
Venue: British Psychoanalytical Society, 112a Shirland Road

The symposium questions the junctions of the private and the public when it comes to trauma, loss and the work of mourning, which challenge our very notions of the individual and the shared, asking: What do we mean by working through the past?    

Confirmed speakers:

DAVID BELL, President, British Psychoanalytical Society, UK: “The Psychoanalyst in the Immigration Court”

JULIA BOROSSA, Director of the Centre for Psychoanalysis, Middlesex University, UK: “Violence, Trauma and Masculinity: Compromise Formations of Mourning and Survival in Contemporary Lebanese Literature”

LUCIA CORTI, Senior Lecturer in Psychoanalysis, Department of Health and Social Sciences, University of Middlesex, UK: “The Found Children of the Disappeared: Recovered Identities”

FERENC ERÓS, Professor, Doctoral School of Psychology, postgraduate programme in psychoanalytic theory, University of Pécs, Hungary: “‘Postmemory Syndrome’ in New Hungarian Literature”

KARL FIGLIO, Professor, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK: “The Differences between Public and Private Mourning”

JANE FRANCES, PhD stud. Essex/UKCP psychotherapist/education policy adviser at Changing Faces, UK: “Trauma, Dis-integration and stasis – Simplification and Perpetual Conflict”

PETER MORALL, University of Leeds, UK/Mike Hazelton, University of Newcastle, Australia/Bill Shackleton, West Yorkshire Police (retired): “Psychotherapy and Social Responsibility: Homicide”

MARGARITA PALACIOS, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck University of London, UK: “Decolonizing Trauma and the Ethics of Anxious Witnessing”

VIC SEIDLER, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK: title TBA

JUDIT SZEKACS-WEISZ, Psychoanalyst, British and Hungarian Society, London, UK: title TBA

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND POLITICS is a conference series that aims to address how crucial contemporary political issues may be fruitfully explored through psychoanalytic theory, and vice versa: how political issues may reflect back on psychoanalytic thinking. The series is interdisciplinary; we invite theoretical contributions and historical, literary or clinical case studies from philosophers, sociologists, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, group analysts, literary theorists, historians and others. Perspectives from different psychoanalytic schools are most welcome. We emphasise room for discussion among the presenters and participants, thus the symposium series creates a space where representatives of different perspectives come together and engage with one another’s contributions, participating in a community of thought.

The conference fee, which includes lunch and dinner Friday and Saturday, is £ 155. To sign up, please e-mail: moc.liamgnull@scitilop.sisylanaohcysp

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND POLITICS

SHARED TRAUMAS – SILENT LOSS,

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MOURNING

WINTER SYMPOSIUM IN STOCKHOLM 9th to 11th of MARCH 2012

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME AS OF DEC. 20th 2011

Venue: Swedish Psychoanalytical Association, Västerlånggatan 60

FRIDAY 9th

09.00-09.30    Opening address

09.30-10.20    HANNAH ZEAVIN – War Games: Mourning Loss Through Play

10.30-11.20    LENE AUESTAD – Public Memory and Figures of Fragmentation

11.30-12.20    JONATHAN DAVIDOFF – To Mend the World

12.30-13.20    MAIRÉAD HANRAHAN – Literary Mourning: Giving Life to Grief

13.20-15.00    Lunch

15.00-15.50   EDNA MOR – The Intergenerational Mourning Process as a Way to Seek Ties with One’s Mother. Holocaust Survivor Mothers and their Daughters

16.00-16.50    HERMANN BELAND – Collective Mourning in Germans, Israelis/Jews, Palestinians

17.00-17.50    KIRSTEN KLERCKE – To Loose Twice? The hidden Jewish Children in Denmark 1943-45. Robert Refby’s Story

18.00-18.50    STEFFEN KRÜGER – Still Unable to Mourn? – Mediated Reactions to recent German Neo-Nazi Terrorism

                     (Joint dinner, covered by the organizers, in the evening)

SATURDAY 10th

09.00-09.50    MARGARITA PALACIOS – Decolonizing Trauma and the Ethics of Anxious Witnessing

10.00-10.50  NAYLA DEBS – On-Going Mourning as a Way to go Beyond Endless Grief: Considerations on the Lebanese Experience

11.00-11.50    FERENC ERÓS – “Postmemory Syndrome” in new Hungarian Literature

12.00-12.50    ESZTER SALGÓ – Symbolic Loss and Denial of Mourning in Hungary

12.50-14.30    Lunch

14.30-15.20   SVEIN TJELTA – The Foundation Matrix and the “Global Village” in Relation to the Dynamic Variables of  Idealisation and Denigration in Modern Society (With Some Examples from Norway)

15.30-16.20    SZYMON WRÓBEL – Wagner and Freud on the Concept of the Death Drive According to Slavoj Žižek’s Opera’s Second Death

16.30-17.20    IMKE BRUST – National Trauma and Mourning – Sharing Lost Memories

17.30-18.20    JENYU PENG – When the “Comfort Women” Speak.  Traumatic Memory, Recognition, and Healing

18.30-19.20    BERIT REISEL – Documentary: Holocaust

                    (Joint dinner, covered by the organizers, in the evening)

SUNDAY 11th

09.00-09.50   MARTINA WEINHOLD-METZNER – Traumatic Experience and Loss in Relation to Creativity

10.00-10.50   JEAN-FRANCOIS JACQUES – Trauma, Mourning and Memory in Three Plays by Ariel Dorfman

11.00-11.50   JANE FRANCES – Victory and Defeat – from Beveridge to Thatcher Without Tears

12.00-12.50   TOBIAS HÜBINETTE – Swedishness in Crisis, White Mourning and Melancholia and the Loss of “Good Old Sweden”

12.50-14.30   Lunch

14.30-15.20   HAAKON FLEMMEN – Modernity as Loss

15.30-16.20   IAIN TWIDDY – Aspects of Mourning in Contemporary Irish Poetry

16.30-17.20   MYNA TRUSTRAM – Collecting Loss – the Symbolic Meaning of Museum Objects

17.30-18.20   Summing up, discussion of future conferences.

Presentations are expected to take half an hour; another 20 min. is set aside for discussion. There is a 10 min. break in between each paper. PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOUR PAPER FITS THE TIME-FRAME; IF IT EXCEEDS 30 MIN., THE TIME FOR DISCUSSION WILL BE REDUCED.

The conference fee, which includes two shared dinners, is 1200 NOK/ 1417 SEK/ 1157 DKK/ € 155/£ 135/ $ 214/ 110 LVL/ 537 LTL.

LENE AUESTAD, Research Fellow, Philosophy, University of Oslo/ Centre for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities/ currently London/JONATHAN DAVIDOFF, Psychologist, Postgraduate Student in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Tavistock Centre, London

This symposium is organised by the NSU, an initiative by the Nordic Ministerial Council, which supports novel and interdisciplinary research collaboration between Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and between these countries and the rest of the world.

PRELIMINARY LIST OF PARTICIPANTS, DECEMBER 2011

LENE AUESTAD, Research Fellow, Philosophy, University of Oslo/ Centre for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities/ currently London, Norway/UK

METTE BAUER, Private practising psychologist, trained in psychoanalytic supervision and group analysis, Denmark,

HERMANN BELAND, Psychoanalyst, Organiser of group relations conferences, Germany,

IMKE BRUST, Assistant Professor, German Department, Haverford College, USA,

JONATHAN DAVIDOFF, Psychologist, Postgraduate Student in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Tavistock Centre, London, Mexico/UK,

NAYLA DEBS , Doctoral School “Research in Psychoanalysis”, Paris-Diderot University , Lebanon/France,

FERENC ERÓS, Professor, Doctoral School of Psychology, postgraduate programme in psychoanalytic theory, University of Pécs, Hungary,

HAAKON FLEMMEN, Intellectual Historian, Norway,

JANE FRANCES, Changing Faces and Essex PhD Student, UK,

MAIRÉAD HANRAHAN , Professor, Department of French, University College London, UK,

PHILIP HEWITT, Psychotherapist    British Association of Psychotherapists  and British Psychoanalytic Council, UK,

TOBIAS HÜBINETTE, Researcher in critical race and whiteness studies at the Multicultural Centre and Lecturer in intercultural studies at Södertörn University, Sweden,

JEAN-FRANCOIS JACQUES, Dramatherapist in private practice and in an adult mental health service in the NHS, founder and director of Out-Side-In: Centre for Dramatherapy and Therapeutic Theatre, and invited tutor on the MA in Dramatherapy at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Belgium/UK,

KIRSTEN KLERCKE , Censor in Philosophy and Citizenship (DPU), Folkeuniversitetet , Copenhagen, Denmark,

STEFFEN KRUEGER, PhD; assistant editor with American Imago, Norway/Germany,

EDNA MOR , Clinical psychologist and training analyst in the Israel and International Psychoanalytical Society and supervisor in Amcha, an institute for treatment of Holocaust survivors and the second generation, Israel,

MARGARITA PALACIOS, Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, UK,

JENYU PENG, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Associate Member, Centre de Recherches Psychanalyse, Médicine et Société (CRPMS), Université Paris-Diderot, Taiwan/France,

BERIT REISEL, Psychologist/HL-center, Norway ,

ESZTER SALGÓ, Teaches political psychology at the Sapienza University of Rome and Adjunct Professor of International Relations at the American University of Rome, Hungary/Italy,

SVEIN TJELTA, Group Analyst, Clinical Psychologist & Executive Editor of Matrix: Scandinavian Journal of Psychotherapy, Norway,

MYNA TRUSTRAM , Manchester Art Gallery, UK,

IAIN TWIDDY, Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University, Japan,

MARTINA WEINHOLD-METZNER, Fachärztin für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, Psychoanalyse  (DPV, IPA, DGPT), Heidelberg, Germany,

SZYMON WRÓBEL, Associate Professor, Inst. of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Inst. for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland,

HANNAH ZEAVIN, American Studies, Yale University, USA

NARRATIVITY AND POLITICAL IMAGINARIES

PROGRAMME, SUMMER SYMPOSIUM,

Falsterbo Educational Centre, Sweden, July 31^st – August 7^th 2011

MONDAY 1^st

09.00-10.30        Opening address by Lene Auestad

Y. S. ALONE: “Confronting Political Representation: Politics of Visuality”

10.45-12.15        LENE AUESTAD: “Basic Trust and Alienation, or ‘We have nothing to Reproach Ourselves With”

JONATHAN DAVIDOFF: “Post-Colonial Literature and Structure” Continue reading →

NATIONALISM AND THE BODY POLITIC

PROGRAMME, WINTER SYMPOSIUM IN OSLO 25^th to 27^th of MARCH 2011

Venue: Norwegian Psychoanalytical Society, Fr. Nansenv. 17, 0369 Oslo

FRIDAY 25^th

09.00-09.30    Opening address by Lene Auestad

Chair: Sølvi Kristiansen

09.30-10.20    PAUL HOGGETT/LITA CROCIANI WINDLAND – Politics, Grief and Grievance

10.30-11.20    LENE AUESTAD – Likeness and Idealization

11.30-12.20    JONATHAN DAVIDOFF – The Mexican: Phantasy, Enactment and Defence Continue reading →

EXCLUSION AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION

WINTER SYMPOSIUM IN COPENHAGEN 19^th to 21^st of MARCH 2010

FRIDAY 19^th

09.00-09.30    Opening address by Lene Auestad and Håvard Nilsen

Chair: Berit Reisel

09.30-10.20    KARL FIGLIO – The Hatred and Exclusion of Likeness

10.30-11.20    LENE AUESTAD – Subjectivity and Absence: Prejudice as a Psychosocial Theme

11.30-12.20    JONATHAN DAVIDOFF – Metapsychological Approaches to Exclusion Continue reading →