THE PSYCHOSOCIAL IMAGINATION A symposium to celebrate the launch of The Association for Psychosocial Studies Friday 13 June 2014 10.30am - 6.30pm at The British Library Conference Centre St Pancras, London with talks, responses and contributions from a wide range of psychosocial thinkers, practitioners and researchers including: John Adlam (NHS), Caroline Bainbridge (Roehampton), Karl Figlio (Essex), Stephen Frosh (Birkbeck), Paul Hoggett (UWE), Wendy Hollway (OU), Gail Lewis (Birkbeck), Sasha Roseneil (Birkbeck), Mike Rustin (UEL), Paul Stenner (OU), Valerie Walkerdine (Cardiff) Chaired by: Lynn Froggett (UCLAN), Liz Frost (UWE) & Tom Wengraf Organised in collaboration with the Social Sciences Department of the British Library The Association for Psychosocial Studies is a Learned Society member of the Academy of the Social Sciences and a UK Charitable Trust PROGRAMME 10.00 Registration & Tea/ Coffee 10.30 Welcome & Introduction to the Symposium Lynn Froggett, APS & Polly Russell, Social Sciences Department, British Library 11.00 The Psychosocial Challenges of Building Psychosocial Studies Sasha Roseneil, with response by Wendy Hollway Chair: Lynn Froggett 12.00 Felix Guattari and the Psychosocial Imagination Valerie Walkerdine, with response by Gail Lewis 1.00 Lunch 2.00 The Nature of the Psychosocial: Debates from "Studies in the Psychosocial" Stephen Frosh, with response by Karl Figlio Chair: Liz Frost 3.00 Learning from Three Practices: Political, Clinical and Research Paul Hoggett, with response by Mike Rustin 4.00 Tea break 4.15 Reflections and prospections John Adlam, Caroline Bainbridge, Paul Stenner & audience discussion Chair: Tom Wengraf 5.30 Reception with wine and canapés to celebrate the launch of the APS Limited places - registration essential Cost, including morning and afternoon tea & coffee, lunch, & wine reception with canapés: Members: £40 Unwaged members: £25 Non-members: £70 Unwaged non-members: £35 To join the Association for Psychosocial Studies, please visit our website: http://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/ <http://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/> . To register for the Symposium, please visit: https://www2.bbk.ac.uk/bisr/aps/ <https://www2.bbk.ac.uk/bisr/aps/> Sasha Roseneil Professor of Sociology and Social Theory, Department of Psychosocial Studies Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research Assistant Dean for Research, School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy Birkbeck, University of London Malet Street London WC1E 7HX Group Analyst (Member of the Institute of Group Analysis) & Full Clinical Member, UKCP, College of Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis. Chair, Steering Committee, Association for Psychosocial Studies. Professor II in Sociology Centre for Gender Research University of Oslo. http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychosocial/our-staff/full-time-academic-staff/sasha-roseneil http://www.bbk.ac.uk/bisr/ http://bbk.academia.edu/SashaRoseneil @SashaRoseneil