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~~~~~ CALL FOR PAPERS ~~~~~
LaConference 2011
Lacan Salon
Vancouver, British Columbia
March 18-19, 2011
Scope of the Conference
LaConference 2011 is an initiative by the Vancouver-based Lacan Salon to provide a venue for broad discussion of themes in Lacanian psychoanalysis. Possible topics for presentation could be:
• Activism
• Aesthetics
• Borders
• Cities
• Clinical praxis
• Geopolitics
• Literature
• Neighbors and neighborhoods
• Psychoanalysis in the social sciences
• The feminine
Organization
The conference will include a keynote address by Professor Dany Nobus (Brunel University, West London) and will take place in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant district (exact location TBA). Details of the conference schedule will be announced late February.
Deadline for Submission of Abstracts
Submit abstracts (approx. 250 words), paper title, and contact information by January 1, 2011 to: Clint Burnham [log in to unmask] and Paul Kingsbury [log in to unmask]
Conference Context
LaConference is an initiative by the Vancouver-based Lacan Salon reading group (established in Fall 2007) to further the research and propagation of Lacanian social and psychoanalytic theory and practice through a public conference aimed at academics and non-academics. The Salon meets biweekly from September to June, with its primary focus being the reading of texts by French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, along with commentary by contemporary authorities. The conference seeks to create dialogue between academics, clinicians, and community members on the applicability of Lacanian theory to clinical practice and contemporary social issues.
Our website is located here: http://sites.google.com/site/lacansalon/
We are delighted that Professor Dany Nobus will be the keynote speaker for our inaugural conference. Dr. Nobus, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, is chair of Psychology and Psychoanalysis and Head of the School for Social Sciences at Brunel University, London, and the editor of Perversions: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2006), co-author of Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid: Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology (2005), and author of Jacques Lacan and the Practice of Psychoanalysis (2000) and Key Concepts in Lacanian Psychotherapy (1998).
Accommodation
For affordable and pleasant downtown hotels and hostels, we recommend the Sylvia Hotel, Urban Hideaway, Plaza 500, and Best Western (11th and Kingsway). For a useful website on Vancouver and its accommodation options see: http://www.tourismvancouver.com/visitors/
The main organizers are:
Clint Burnham (clint_burnham at sfu.ca)
Hilda Fernandez (hifeera at hotmail.com)
Nancy Gillespie (gillespie.nancy at googlemail.com)
Paul Kingsbury (kingsbury at sfu.ca)
Jesse Proudfoot (jproudfo at sfu.ca)
For more information please contact one of the organizers
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