NARRATIVITY AND POLITICAL IMAGINARIES
PROGRAMME, SUMMER SYMPOSIUM,
Falsterbo Educational Centre, Sweden, July 31st – August 7th 2011
MONDAY 1st
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”
12.15-13.45 Lunch
13.45-15.15 Keynote: MARTIN BECK MATUSTIK
15.30-17.00 STEFFEN KRÜGER: “The Legend of the Artist (1934) – Family Romance and Füehrer-Myth”
ANDERS RAMSAY: “Freud, Jung and the Struggle for the Psychotherapeutic Field”
(Elect 3 people to represent Psychoanalysis and Politics in the NSU Parliament)
TUESDAY 2nd
09.00-10.30 Keynote: KARL FIGLIO: “The Internal World in Psychoanalytic Social Research”
10.45-12.15 KIRSTEN KLERCKE: “The Logic of the Xenophobia of the Imaginary”
HAAKON FLEMMEN: “Fundamentalism, Nazism and the Inferiority Complex”
12.15-13.45 Lunch
13.45-15.15 NINA LICHTENSTEIN: “In Between Nations: The Case of Arab Jews from North Africa”
NAYLA DEBS: “On Minorities and Resistance in Lebanon”
15.30-17.00 ANTS PARKTAL: “Lost Chances and Prosperous Present: Influences from the Traumatic Past to Today’s Estonian Life. A Psychoanalytic Approach”
Space for discussion
WEDNESDAY 3rd
09.00-10.30 DAN ARAV /DAVID GUREVITZ: “The National and Individual Father Figure Depicted in the Cinema of Conflict: The Israeli –Palestinian Case”
AGNIESZKA PIOTROWSKA: “Lack and Desire in Mike Leigh’s ‘Another Country'”
10.45-12.15 Keynote: PATRICIA HUNTINGTON
12.15-13.45 Lunch
13.45-15.15 JEAN-FRANCOIS JACQUES: “Public Creative Space: Interplay between Therapy, Politics and the Theatre”
MYNA TRUSTRAM: “Asylum and the Museum”
15.30-17.00 ALEJANDRO REYES /ROSS SKELTON: “Empty Feelings and Empty Thoughts: The Development of Abstract
Thinking, a Psychoanalytical View”
T. A. PERRY: “The Enigma of Ecclesiastes as a Pseudo-Authored, Transformational and Foundational Text”
THURSDAY 4th
Activity/excursion day
FRIDAY 5th
09.00-10.30 Keynote: KARL FIGLIO: “Collective Memory and Reparation”
10.45-12.15 KATERINA DANIEL: “Lacan and Feminists on Feminine Desire”
TAMAS NAGYPAL: “The Apotheosis of the Forgotten Hard-Boiled Action Hero”
12.15-13.45 Lunch
13.45-15.15 KEMAL CICEK: “The Power of Rumours in the Making of History: The Case of the Adana Incident of 1909 in the Ottoman Empire”
SAVVAS VOUTYRAS: “Nationalism, Ressentiment and the Enjoyment of National Victimhood: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the School History Textbook Controversy in Greece”
15.30-17.00 TROELS DEGN JOHANSSON: “Peripheral Fantasy in ‘Superflex’ ‘Hotline for the Outskirts'”
Space for discussion
SATURDAY 6th
10.45-12.15 JAMES PENNEY: “Beyond Colonial Transference: Fanon’s Nation-Object”
ERIK BRYNGELSSON: “The subject is not without fantasy”
12.15-13.45 Lunch
13.45-15.15 Summing up, plans for the future
15.30-17.00 Space for discussion
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Name |
Title/affiliation |
Lives in |
Citizen of |
YASHADATTA SOMAJI ALONE |
Professor in Visual Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
India |
India |
DAN ARAV |
Head of Dep. of Persuasive Communication, School of Media Studies, College of Management, Tel-Aviv, Lecturer in Dep. of Film and Television, Tel-Aviv University |
Israel |
Israel |
LENE AUESTAD
|
Research Fellow, Philosophy, University of Oslo/ Centre for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities/ currently London |
UK |
Norway |
ERIK BRYNGELSSON
|
MA stud. Philosophy, Paris VIII, Vincennes-Saint-Denis, (prev. Södertörn, Stockholm, Albert-Ludwig’s University, Freiburg, Germany) |
Sweden |
Sweden |
KEMAL CICEK
|
Prof. Dr., Karadeniz Technical University, Türk Tarih Kurumu, Ankara |
Turkey |
Turkey |
KATERINA DANIEL |
Ph.D., Duquesne University (Krets 6) |
UK |
Greece |
JONATHAN DAVIDOFF
|
Psychologist, Postgraduate Student in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Tavistock Centre, London |
UK |
Mexico |
NAYLA DEBS
|
Researcher and Doctorate Student, Doctoral School Research in Psychoanalysis, Paris-Diderot University, France |
France |
Lebanon |
HELLE EGENDAL |
Lektor, cand.mag. |
Denmark |
Denmark |
KARL MICHAEL FIGLIO
|
Professor, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK (Krets –) |
UK |
USA |
HAAKON FLEMMEN |
Journalist, writer, historian of ideas, Oslo |
Norway |
Norway |
DAVID GUREVITZ |
Head of Dep. of Popular Culture, School of Media Studies, College of Management, Tel-Aviv |
Israel |
Israel |
PATRICIA JOY HUNTINGTON
|
Professor of philosophy and religious studies, Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies in Arizona State University, College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences |
USA |
USA |
JEAN-FRANCOIS JACQUES
|
Dramatherapist, and supervisor, Founder and coordinator of Out-Side-In:Centre for Dramatherapy and Therapeutic Theatre. Invited tutor, MA in Dramatherapy, Anglia Ruskin University. |
UK |
Belgium |
SUSAN JACQUES |
|
UK |
UK |
TROELS DEGN JOHANSSON |
Head of Research, Associate Professor, PhD, The Danish Design School (Krets X) |
Denmark |
Denmark |
JESPER JØRGENSEN |
M.Sc. |
Denmark |
Denmark |
KIRSTEN SØLTOFT KLERCKE |
Mag. Art, Censor in Philosophy and Citizenship (DPU), Folkeuniversitetet , Copenhagen |
Denmark |
Denmark |
STEFFEN KRÜGER
|
PhD; assistant editor with American Imago, Oslo |
Norway |
Germany |
NINA BOUG LICHTENSTEIN |
Scholar-in-Residence, Hadassah Brandeis Institute, Brandeis, Waltham, MA |
USA |
Norway |
ANDREA M
|
Stud. Psychology, Lund University |
Sweden |
Sweden |
METTE MYGIND |
cand.mag., dansklektor |
Germany |
Denmark |
TAMAS NAGYPAL
|
Central European University, Budapest |
Hungary |
Hungary |
ANTS PARKTAL |
Psychoanalyst, direct member of IPA |
Estonia |
Estonia |
JAMES PENNEY
|
James Penney, Associate Professor, Cultural Studies Department, Trent University, Ontario |
Canada |
Canada |
THEODORE A. PERRY |
Professor, Visiting chair in Christian-Jewish Relations, Boston College |
USA |
USA |
AGNIESZKA PIOTROWSKA
|
Filmmaker doing a PhD on Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary, Psychosocial Studies Department, Birkbeck College, University of London, and in Lacanian analysis, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, London |
UK |
UK |
ANDERS RAMSAY
|
Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Sociology, |
Sweden |
Sweden |
ALEJANDRO REYES |
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Advanced Therapist Lincoln Clinic and Centre for Psychotherapy, London |
UK |
UK |
PAULINA REYES |
Psychoanalytical Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist |
UK |
UK |
SEBASTIAN SAAR |
Comparative literature, Philosophy, Sociology |
Sweden |
Sweden |
HARALD HENRIK STØREN |
Candidatus Rerum Politicarum (cand.polit.), Master of Philosophy in Psychology |
Norway |
Norway |
MYNA TRUSTRAM |
Manchester Art Gallery |
UK |
UK |
SAVVAS VOUTYRAS |
PhD student in Ideology and Discourse Analysis, Department of Government, University of Essex |
UK |
Greece |