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 9th
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 10th
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 11th
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 15th 2014 – £180 (or € 214) after February 15th 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.