EXCLUSION AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION

EXCLUSION AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION

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

FRIDAY 19th

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

12.20-14.30    Lunch

Chair: Håvard Nilsen

14.30-15.20    FAKHRY DAVIDS – German-Jew, Israeli-Palestinian: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Racist Dimension

15.30-16.20    SVERRE VARVIN – Islamism and Xenophobia

16.30-17.20    MARTYN HOUSDEN – Analysing a True Believer: The Significance of Racism for a Nazi Ideologist

(Joint dinner, not covered by the organizers, in the evening)

SATURDAY 20th

Chair: Lene Auestad

9.00-09.50      JULIA BOROSSA – The Foreigner as Psychoanalyst: Psychoanalysis, Colonialism and Hospitality

10.00-10.50    FERENC ERÓS – Psychoanalysis behind Iron Curtains

11.00-11.50    HÅVARD NILSEN – Resistance in therapy and war. Psychoanalysis before and during the Nazi occupation of Norway.

12.00-14.00    Lunch

Chair: Anders Ramsay

14.00-14.50    ELISABETH ROHR – Traces of Trauma in Social Institutions. Reflections about Experiences in Guatemala

15.00-15.50    RENÉ RASMUSSEN – ‘Who is Afraid of DSM?’ The Place of the subject in the Society of Therapy

16.00-16.50    CALUM NEILL – Beyond Identification: Lacan’s Ethics of Infinity

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

SUNDAY 21st

Chair: Jonathan Davidoff

10.00-10.50    JANE FRANCES – Brutal Perception: How do Stereotypical Portrayals of Disfigurement in Film, TV and Computer Games Perpetuate Conscious and Unconscious Social Barriers against People with Disfiguring Conditions and Injuries?

11.00-11.50    JON ROSTGAARD BOIESEN – The Impossible Fullness of the Subject – on the Žižek-Laclau Debate

12.00-13.00    Summing up, discussion of future conferences.

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

NAME TITLE/ AFFILIATION COUNTRY
Tove Ahremark Sweden
Ylva Ahremark  Candidate DPAS Sweden
Mikkel Astrup Research Fellow,  University of Oslo Norway
Lene Auestad Research Fellow, Philosophy/The Ethics Programme, University of Oslo/ Centre for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities, Oslo Norway/UK
Jon Rostgaard Boiesen Dep. of Philosophy, University of Aarhus Denmark
Julia Borossa Director of Programmes in Psychoanalysis, Health and Social Sciences, Middlesex University UK
Karsten Anker Bøg Doctor, Tåstrup Denmark
Jonathan Davidoff Postgraduate Student, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London Mexico/UK
Fakhry Davids Psychoanalyst and Conductor of Group Relations Conferences, Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities South Africa/UK
Ferenc Erós Professor, Doctoral School of Psychology, postgraduate programme in psychoanalytic theory, University of Pécs Hungary
Karl Eldar Evang Psychoanalyst, Norwegian Psychoanalytical Society Norway
Karl Figlio Psychotherapist, Professor, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex USA/UK
Haakon Flemmen Norway
Jane Frances Policy Adviser in Education, Changing Faces, London, PhD Candidate, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex UK
Daniel Herron UK
Martyn Housden Reader in Modern History, University of Bradford UK
Tomas Jansson Leg. Psychotherapist Sweden
Kirsten Søltoft Klercke Censor in Philosophy and Citizenship (DPU), Folkeuniversitetet , Copenhagen Denmark
Tove Mathiesen M.D., Group Analyst, President, Danish Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Denmark
Elisabeth Mork Consultant, Changing Faces, London, M.Phil, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Oslo Norway
Calum Neill Lecturer in Critical Psychology, Edinburg Napier University UK
Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen Professor, Centre for Advanced Study/University of Oslo (prev. Director, Centre for Gender Studies, Un. Of Oslo) Norway
Kasper Porsgaard Nilsen Ph.D. Candidate, Inst. Of Pedagogy, Denmarks Pædagogiske Universitetsskole Denmark
Håvard Nilsen Intellectual Historian from the University of Oslo Norway
Anders Ramsay Lecturer in Sociology, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, University of Örebro Sweden
René Rasmussen Lecturer, Department of Literature, University of Copenhagen Denmark
Berit Reisel Psychologist, Oslo, Chairman of the Board, Centre for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities, Oslo Norway
Elisabeth Rohr Professor Dr., Institut fuer schulpaedagogik, Philipps-Universitaet Marburg Germany
Bent Rosenbaum President, Danish Psychoanalytical Society Denmark
Frederike Unger Denmark
Sverre Varvin President, Norwegian Psychoanalytical Society, Senior Researcher, Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress studies, Oslo Norway