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/. To register for the Symposium, please visit: 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://bbk.academia.edu/SashaRoseneil
@SashaRoseneil