o DISCOURSE UNIT DIARY – SUMMER 2009
In this diary you will find details of seminars, conferences, events and publications for the next year that lie within the scope of research and activities of the Discourse Unit.
□□ SEMINARS –
▫▫▫ QUALITATIVE RESEARCH, SUBJECTIVITY AND CRITICAL THEORY (QRSCT) SEMINARS –
These seminars are at MMU Gaskell Campus on Hathersage Road (map: www.mmu.ac.uk/about/locations/gaskell.php). They will resume in Autumn this year. Details of sessions will be updated at that time and can be downloaded from www.discourseunit.com/diary.doc
▫▫▫ DESIRE AND JOUISSANCE IN CLINICAL PRACTICE (24 April 2009) –
Seminar organised by Manchester Psychoanalytic Matrix together with the Research Institute for Health and Social Change at MMU. The seminar is at MMU Gaskell Campus on Hathersage Road. Location map for the seminar is at: http://www.mmu.ac.uk/travel/gaskell/ Friday 24 April, 5.00-6.45, Room NTR, Gaskell Campus, MMU. DIETER NITZGEN, M.A.: Dieter Nitzgen is a Group Analyst and Lacanian Psychoanalyst visiting from Germany. The presentation explores the relationship between desire and jouissance as key Lacanian concepts. In his later work, Lacan made a point of differentiating desire and jouissance, a differentiation which has important clinical implications. While desire belongs to the realm of the symbolic, language, jouissance refers to the real of bodily experience. As an enjoyment beyond words, it resists symbolization as such and therefore stands in opposition to desire. This is why, Lacan said, that desire comes to function as a defence against unlimited jouissance. The presentation focuses on the clinical relevance of this distinction. Manchester Psychoanalytic Matrix details are at: www.discourseunit.com/matrix.htm Dieter Nitzgen will be guest speaker at the Group Analysis North Friday seminar earlier in the day, and details about application to attend this closed seminar can be found at: http://www.groupanalysisnorth.com/Activity/fridayseminarprogramme%202008-09.pdf
▫▫▫ SOCIAL CHANGE AND WELL BEING (SCWB) SEMINARS –
These seminars are at MMU Gaskell Campus on Hathersage Road (map: www.mmu.ac.uk/about/locations/gaskell.php). Check beforehand if you are travelling to Manchester for an event, by contacting d.goodley@mmu.ac.uk
▫▫▫ FEMINIST RESEARCH AND READING GROUP –
The FRRG meetings take place on a fortnightly cycle at Elizabeth Gaskell Campus of MMU on Wednesdays. For details of the meetings contact Debbie Thackray, d.thackray@mmu.ac.uk
▫▫▫ EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE –
The ESRI seminars will include inter-disciplinary perspectives across education and the social sciences, taking place on Wednesdays 2.00-3.30 at Didsbury Campus of MMU. For details of meetings contact Barbara Ashcroft: B.Ashcroft@mmu.ac.uk
▫▫▫ HUMAN SCIENCES SEMINAR –
The HS seminar includes philosophy and political theory, and takes place on Thursday afternoons at All Saints Campus of MMU. For details of the meetings contact Keith Crome, K.Crome@mmu.ac.uk
▫▫▫ SOCIOLOGY SEMINARS –
The Sociology Department seminars take place at the All Saints Campus of MMU. For details of meetings contact Lucy Huxley: L.Huxley@mmu.ac.uk
▫▫▫ RADICAL POLITICAL THOUGHT SEMINARS –
Seminar series organised by Peter Bratsis at the European Studies Research Institute (the other ESRI) at Salford University Centre for Contemporary History and Politics. Details from P.Bratsis@salford.ac.uk
□□ CONFERENCES AND COURSES –
▫▫▫ PSYCHOTHERAPY AND POLITICS: REALISING THE POTENTIAL (8-9 MAY 2009) –
An opportunity for counsellors, psychotherapists, and psychologists of all orientations - as well as users and commissioners of psychological services - to meet and explore the interface between psychological therapies and progressive socio-political-environmental perspectives. What can counsellors and psychotherapists contribute to progressive social change? What are the politics of the therapeutic relationship? What can we take from counselling and psychotherapy theory to understand political processes? Following on from the highly successful 'Psychotherapy and Liberation' conference in London in 2008, a diverse group of counsellors and psychotherapists, with representatives from the humanistic, person-centred, and psychodynamic communities and from Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility, are organising a major conference in Glasgow to explore the interface between psychological therapies and progressive social-political-environmental perspectives. The first day of the conference will be mainly focused on psychotherapy and politics in theoryhttp://www.strath.ac.uk/pdu/psyconf/ - all the ways in which therapeutic thinking can help address political issues. The second day will be mainly focused on psychotherapy and politics in practice - what we are already doing, and what we could potentially do, to contribute actively to political problems around the world. Each afternoon will include a keynote panel of speakers in dialogue with each other and with the conference around the theme of the day; each morning will be devoted to presentations and workshops mainly relating to that theme. If you are interested in offering a presentation or workshop at the conference, please send an abstract (not more than 200 words) to Nick Totton at: nick@3-c.coop We would welcome proposals as soon as possible, but the final deadline is February 1st 2009. Key panel speakers include: Andrew Samuels; Mick Cooper; Gillian Proctor; Nick Totton; Khatidja Chantler; and Martin Milton. Details at:
▫▫▫ THEORETICAL PSYCHOLOGY (15-19 MAY 2009) –
The next ISTP conference title is “'East', 'West', 'South', 'North': Challenges and Transformations in Theoretical Psychology”. It is on MAY 15-19, 2009 at Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. Website: www.istp2009.com
▫▫▫ RIHSC CONFERENCE (1-2 JULY 2009) –
MMU Research Institute for Health & Social Change, 2009 Annual Conference, Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd July 2009, Call for submissions, Strict deadline 30th May 2009, Contributions to RIHSC's fifth annual conference are invited from researchers, research students and practitioners in the fields of health and social change. The focus of this year's keynotes and debates will acknowledge the focus of RIHSC's research centres: Health, Rehabilitation and Psychology; Social Change and Well-being; and Qualitative Research, Subjectivity and Critical Theory. For more details send an email to rihsc@mmu.ac.uk
▫▫▫ PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN SECTION ANNUAL CONFERENCE (15-17 JULY 2009) –
The Psychology of Women Section Annual Conference will once again be taking place at Cumberland Lodge this year. Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor Kum Kum Bhavnani, (University of California at Santa Barbara) ‘Doing Film: a Feminist Approach’; Professor Liz Bondi (Edinburgh University) ‘On valuing emotion in professional practice: undoing or reinscribing habits of gender?’ ; Dr. Lucy Johnstone (Bristol University) ‘Challenges to psychiatric diagnosis: what can feminist psychologists offer?’ Themes include: Gender in professions; Feminist work in and across professional divides; Implications for feminist practice of current moves towards professionalisation; and Transnational perspectives on professional psychological practices. For further information please email powsconference@bps.org.uk
▫▫▫ II CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL “INTERVENCIÓN Y PRAXIS COMUNITARIA” SAN CRISTÓBAL, CHIAPAS, MÉXICO, 1, 2 Y 3 DE OCTUBRE 2009 –
Centro Latinoamericano de Investigación, Intervención y Atención Psicosocial A.C. Convoca al II Congreso Internacional “Intervención y Praxis Comunitaria” San Cristóbal, Chiapas, México, 1, 2 y 3 de octubre 2009. Homenaje a 20 años del asesinato de Ignacio Martín-Baró. Temáticas: Estrategias de investigación e intervención comunitaria; Sociedad civil y procesos comunitarios; Salud, educación y exclusión social; Educación y concientización; Intervención educative; Representaciones Sociales y Memoria histórica; pistemología y metodología en la investigación comunitaria; Modalidades de participación; Conferencias magistrales, coloquios por invitación, simposios, trabajos libres, videos y talleres. Invitados: Maritza Montero (Venezuela); Teresita Cordero (Costa Rica); Fátima Quintal (Brasil) Carlos Figueroa (México); Fernando González Rey (Cuba/Brasil) Antonio Padilla (México); Bernardo Jiménez Domínguez (México); Guillermo Peimbert (México); Erica Burman (Inglaterra) Alcira Soler (México); Ian Parker (Inglaterra) Gerardo Pacheco (México); Antonio Mazariegos Genoveva Echeverría (Chile); René Pedroza Flores (México) Mara Fuentes (Cuba); Eduardo Almeida (México) Juan Manuel Piña Osorio (México); y Elisa Bertha Velásquez. (México). Informes e-mail: congresopraxis2007@yahoo.com.mx
▫▫▫ MARX AND PSYCHOLOGY (5-7 AUGUST 2010) –
There is a new email distribution list that is designed to bring together scholars interested in discussing the relationship between Marx and Psychology. It already has getting on for 200 participants. Interests include Critical Theory, Social Theory, Cultural Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Activity Theory, Participatory Action Research, Feminism, (Post)Structuralism, Literary Theory, Ecological Psychology, Political Psychology, Social Psychology, Phenomenology, Political Economy, Cultural Studies, Critical Psychology, Political Theory, Ecosocialism, Social Ecology, Symbolic Interactionism, Situated/Embodied Cognition, Phenomenology, Postmodernism, and Ecopsychology. This has been created by Michael Arfken who has created this list because he is in the process of organizing a conference on Marx & Psychology at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Papers from the conference will be considered for a special issue of Annual Review of Critical Psychology to be published in 2011. This conference is tentatively scheduled for August 5-7, 2010. To subscribe to the list click on this link: http://lists.upei.ca/mailman/listinfo/marxpsychology
□□ PUBLICATIONS –
▫▫▫ RADICAL PSYCHOLOGY –
Volume 7, Issue 2 (Winter 2008), of Radical Psychology is now available online at http://radicalpsychology.org/ This is a special issue of the journal, covering papers from the "*Madness, Citizenship & Social Justice: A Human Rights Conference*" held at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver Canada from June 12-15, 2008. Upcoming issues of Radical Psychology: A Journal of Psychology, Politics, and Radicalism will be on the special topic of Feminism and Psychology with three different issues dedicated to: 1) 'Girlhood'; 2) 'Bodily Difference'; and, 3) 'Mothering on the Margins'. If you are not receiving this email directly and would like to receive notification of upcoming issues of Radical Psychology, please send an email to radical.psychology@gmail.com with "New Issue alert" in the subject heading. If you would like to obtain information about upcoming calls for papers for the journal, please send an email to radical.psychology@gmail.comwith "Call for Papers alert" in the subject heading.
▫▫▫ PSYCHOANALYTIC MYTHOLOGIES –
Ian Parker’s Psychoanalytic Mythologies presents a collection of essays on the theme of what it is to be a human subject in a culture permeated by psychoanalytic imagery. The author's attempt to disturb the strongly-held belief of those in thrall to psychoanalysis that it is universally true forms the recurrent motif that binds these essays together. Instead he argues that psychoanalysis functions as something that is only ever locally true. These arguments are elaborated upon in a range of contexts, from a clubbing experience in Manchester to a trip to Disneyworld, and the different strands are distilled into a cohesive thesis in the definitive final essay 'Psychoanalytic Myth Today'. Ian Parker, 2009, Psychoanalytic Mythologies, London: Anthem Press, ISBN: 978-1-84331-303-8
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