VICISSITUDES:

histories & destinies of psychoanalysis

Thu 17 – Sat 19 Jan 2008

Concluding Conference of the 15-month IGRS Network

Psychoanalysis & the arts and humanities: a multilingual perspective

at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies

Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DN

Each session will comprise a keynote speaker, an artist

and a report on the 2007 seminars

Thursday 17 January

9-10                                                         register+ coffee

10-12                                                       ARTS

Mark Nash: ‘What does the work of art want?’

                                                                Artist: Sharon Kivland

                                                                Report: Malcolm Quinn

12-1.30                                                    lunch (own arrangements)

1.30-3.30                                                PEDAGOGY & PRACTICE: Sander Gilman: ‘Psychoanalysis, the university, and creativity’

                                                                Artist: Zoë Laughlin

                                                                Report: Amy Wygant

3.30-4                                                      tea

4-6                                                          HISTORY & TRANSMISSION

                                                                Mariano Plotkin: ‘Psychoanalysis, modernity & national habitus in comparative perspective: the early reception of psychoanalysis in Argentina and Brazil’

                                                                Artist: Uriel Orlow

                                                                Report: Andrew Webber

7-8.30                                                      Joglaresa (music/storytelling) & buffet supper

Friday 18 January

9.30-10                                                    register + coffee

10-12                                                                                                                      POLITICS

                                                Juliet Mitchell: ’Delusions, siblings and “historical truth”’

                                                                Artist: Jaspar Joseph-Lester

                                                                Report: Ahuvia Kahane

12-1.30                                                    lunch (own arrangements)

1.30-3.30                                                FRENCH

                                                                Christine Anzieu: ‘The coming of a sense of humour during psychoanalysis in traumatized young children’

Artist: Stéphane Le Mercier

Report: Julia Borossa

3.30-4                                                      tea

4-6                                                           HISPANIC

Hugo Vezzetti: ‘El psicoanálisis en la cultura argentina. Una hermenéutica de la sociedad y la política’

Artist: Juan Cruz

                                                                Report: Alison Sinclair

6-7                                                           drinks                                                                                                          

7.30                                                         conference dinner

Saturday 19 January

10-10.30                                                 register + coffee

10.30-12.30                                            GERMAN

                                                                Inge Scholz-Strasser, ‘The temporality of space in the Sigmund Freud Musem’

                                                                Artist: William Cobbing

                                                                Report: Martin Liebscher

12.30-2                                                    lunch (own arrangements)

2-4                                                           ITALIAN

                                                                Claudio Magris: ‘The unity of the ego in biography’

                                                                Artist: Marcella Vanzo

                                                                Report: Lesley Caldwell

4-4.30                                                      tea

4.30-6                                                      plans for the future

7.30                                                         wine reception at Freud Museum

Grateful thanks for support of this conference & the Network go to the:

Arts & Humanities Research Council

Austrian Cultural Forum

British Academy

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities

Embassy of France

Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Freud Museum

Italian Cultural Institute

Modern Humanities Research Association

Scottish Institute of Human Relations

Society for French Studies

Society for Italian Studies

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Tel: 020 7862 8677; fax 020 7862 8672
Web: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk