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? Friday 19th, 9.00-9.30 Opening address 9.30-10.30 JUDIT SZEKACS-WEISZ - Separation in Exile 10.40-11.40 LENE AUESTAD - Time and Memory 11.50-12.50 JONATHAN DAVIDOFF - To Mend the World: Trauma and Containment 12.50-02.00 Lunch 2.00 - 3.00 KARL FIGLIO - The Differences between Public and Private Mourning 3.10-4.10 JANE FRANCES - Trauma, Dis-integration and Stasis - Simplification and Perpetual Conflict 4.20-5.30 JULIA BOROSSA - Violence, Trauma and Masculinity: Compromise Formations of Mourning and Survival in Contemporary Lebanese Literature 5.40-7.00 Group reflection session, conducted by SVEIN TJELTA Saturday 20th 9.30-10.30 DAVID BELL - The Psychoanalyst in the Immigration Court 10.40-11.40 FERENC EROS - 'Postmemory Syndrome' in New Hungarian Literature 11.50-12.50 MARGARITA PALACIOS - Decolonizing Trauma and the Ethics of Anxious Witnessing 12.50-2.00 Lunch 2.00-3.00 PETER MORRALL - Psychotherapy and Social Responsibility: Homicide 3.10-4.10 LUCIA CORTI - The Found Children of the Disappeared: Recovered Identities 4.20-5.30 VIC SEIDLER - Silent Loss, Embodied Memories and Impossible Mournings 5.40-7.00 General discussion, feedback, about future conferences 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 GBP. To sign up, please e-mail: [email protected] 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 Enquiries: [email protected] Web address: http://www.psa-pol.org |