Dear all (apologies for cross-posting),
You are welcome to attend our independent London symposium, Shared traumas, Silent Loss, Public and Private Mourning. Please see the text below and the attached preliminary poster.
Please note that places are assigned on a first come first served basis and that you have signed up when your completed registration
form as well as your payment has been received.
(We have nor released a call for papers for this event, and the programme is full, but there will be other opportunities to propose a presentation in the future - we will release a call
for papers in the autumn for a future symposium next winter.)
We hope you would like to come and take part in our open and vivid exchanges in London in October!
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND POLITICS
SHARED TRAUMAS, SILENT LOSS,
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MOURNING
AUTUMN SYMPOSIUM IN LONDON 19th and 20th of OCTOBER 2012
Venue: British Psychoanalytical Society, 112a Shirland Road
The symposium questions the junctions of the private and the public when it comes to trauma, loss and the work of mourning, which
challenge our very notions of the individual and the shared, asking:
What do we mean by working through the past?
Confirmed speakers:
DAVID BELL, President, British Psychoanalytical Society, UK: "The Psychoanalyst in the Immigration Court"
JULIA BOROSSA, Director of the Centre for Psychoanalysis, Middlesex University, UK: "Violence, Trauma and Masculinity: Compromise
Formations of Mourning and Survival in Contemporary Lebanese Literature"
LUCIA CORTI, Senior Lecturer in Psychoanalysis, Department of Health and Social Sciences, University of Middlesex, UK: "The Found Children of the Disappeared: Recovered Identities"
FERENC ERÓS, Professor, Doctoral School of Psychology, postgraduate programme in psychoanalytic theory, University of Pécs, Hungary: "'Postmemory Syndrome' in New Hungarian Literature"
KARL FIGLIO, Professor, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK: "The Differences between Public and Private Mourning"
JANE FRANCES, PhD stud. Essex/UKCP psychotherapist/education policy adviser at Changing Faces, UK: "Trauma, Dis-integration and stasis – Simplification and Perpetual Conflict"
PETER MORRALL, University of Leeds, UK/Mike Hazelton, University of Newcastle, Australia/Bill Shackleton, West Yorkshire Police (retired):
"Psychotherapy and Social Responsibility: Homicide"
MARGARITA PALACIOS, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck University of London, UK: "Decolonizing Trauma and the Ethics of Anxious Witnessing"
VIC SEIDLER, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK: title TBA
JUDIT SZEKACS-WEISZ, Psychoanalyst, British and Hungarian Society, London, UK: title TBA
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND POLITICS is a conference series that aims to address how crucial contemporary political issues may be fruitfully explored through psychoanalytic theory, and vice versa: how political issues may reflect back on psychoanalytic thinking. The series is interdisciplinary; we invite theoretical contributions and historical, literary or clinical case studies from philosophers, sociologists, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, group analysts, literary theorists, historians and others. Perspectives from different psychoanalytic schools are most welcome. We emphasise room for discussion among the presenters and participants, thus the symposium series creates a space where representatives of different perspectives come together and engage with one another's contributions, participating in a community
of thought.
The conference fee, which includes lunch and dinner Friday and Saturday, is £ 155 (no concessions). To sign up, please e-mail:
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LENE AUESTAD/JONATHAN DAVIDOFF, organisers
Psychoanalysis and Politics is registered as a non-profit organisation in Norway,
org. no: 998 503 221
webpage: www.psa-pol.org
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/PsAPol
With best wishes,
Lene Auestad/Jonathan Davidoff
Organisers, Psychoanalysis and Politics
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