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 |