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SUMMARY:Counselling and Psychotherapy in Times of Political Violence
DESCRIPTION:Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/counselling-and-psychotherapy-in-times-of-political-violence-tickets-648236010357?aff=oddtdtcreator \n“Counselling and Psychotherapy in Times of Political Violence” is a transdisciplinary symposium addressing poverty\, forced displacement\, racism\, and misogyny as key forms of political violence which we see on the rise globally. Grounded in the psychosocial perspective that our inner world and the sociopolitical environments are intertwined\, the symposium explores the potential of counselling and psychotherapy in understanding and working with the impacts of political violence in therapeutic and training settings. The symposium brings together researchers from various fields such as culture and media studies\, psychoanalytic and psychosocial studies\, post-colonial studies\, and feminist studies. It promotes a collaborative\, reflexive approach to generate a collective inquiry on the impacts of political violence within therapeutic and training settings and how we may bridge the gap between theory and practice\, psyche and social\, by exploring the political dimensions of counselling and psychotherapy. \nThe symposium will be held at the University of Edinburgh’s Old College. The symposium is convened by Dr Nini Fang and Rhea Gandhi in collaboration with several PhD and ProfDoc students based at Edinburgh\, Mingxi Li\, Kartika Ladwal\, and Sarah Nghidinwa. It is organised jointly by the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry and the Association for Psychosocial Studies and is supported by alumni and friends of the University of Edinburgh through the Student Experience Grants scheme and the Equality\, Diversity and Inclusion Grant. \nThe symposium is free to attend and open to all\, bringing together counselling and psychotherapy communities both within and outwith Edinburgh. Lunch (meat\, vegetarian\, and vegan options) and light refreshments will be provided on the day. We would kindly invite that participants with specific food allergy and intolerance to prepare your own food. \nConference convenors: \nDr Nini Fang\, University of Edinburgh nfang@ec.uk \nRhea Gandhi\, University of Edinburgh rhea.gandhi@ed.ac.uk \n  \nSYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE – 30TH JUNE \, FRIDAY \n10.00 – 10.20 Registration \n10.20 – 10.40 Symposium Opening: “Counselling and Psychotherapy in Times of Political Violence” by Dr Nini Fang\, Lecturer and Convenor of the Symposium [University of Edinburgh] \n10.40 – 11.40 Session i:“Poverty as Political Violence” by Dr Lucy Stroud [University of Aberdeen] \nChaired by Mingxi Li\, Prof-Doc Researcher [University of Edinburgh] \n11.40 – 12.00 Coffee/Tea Break \n12.00 – 1.00 Session ii:“Forced Displacement as Political Violence” by Shireen Dossa\, PhD Researcher [University of Essex] \n“Coloniality and racism as political violence”by Rhea Gandhi\, PhD Researcher and Co-convenor of the Symposium [University of Edinburgh] \nChaired by Kartika Ladwal\, Prof-Doc Researcher [University of Edinburgh] \n  \n1-2.30: Lunch @ Playfrair Library\, Old College \n  \n2.30 – 3.30 Session iii:“Misogyny as Political Violence” by Lasse Schaefer\, PhD Researcher [University of Edinburgh] \n“Transphobic ideologies as Political Violence” by Jaz Halow\, Prof-Doc Researcher [University of Edinburgh] \nChaired by Sarah Nghidinwa\, Prof-Doc Researcher [University of Edinburgh] \n  \n3.30 – 3.50 Break \n  \n3.50 – 4.50 Final Plenary: “Counselling and Psychotherapy in Times of Political ViolenceG.159 MacLaren Stuart Room\, Old College \n4.50 – 5.00 Closing and Event Evaluation \n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/counselling-and-psychotherapy-in-times-of-political-violence-2/
LOCATION:1.264 Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre\, Old College South Bridge Edinburgh EH8 9YL\, 1.264 Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre\, Old College South Bridge Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9YL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230623T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230623T180000
DTSTAMP:20260525T030131
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SUMMARY:Content Moderation and Its Discontents
DESCRIPTION:Programme and registration: https://www.stmarys.ac.uk/events/2023/06/content-moderation-conference
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/content-moderation-and-its-discontents/
LOCATION:St. Mary’s University\, Twickenham\, Waldegrave Road\, London\, TW1 4SX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230202T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230202T190000
DTSTAMP:20260525T030131
CREATED:20230203T185424Z
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SUMMARY:Hannah Dee: It’s A Good Home Ain’t It? Memories of Broadmoor
DESCRIPTION:Psychosocial Interventions: Aesthetic Analysis in Practice and Theory  \nAn Event Series by APS and the Department of Visual Cultures\, Goldsmiths \n\nPsychosocial Studies is a transdisciplinary form of academic scholarship that engages the ways in which subjective experience is interwoven with social life. Psychosocial Studies is characterised by its orientation towards progressive social and personal change. An important\, but often overlooked\, aspect of Psychosocial theory and practice are aesthet-ic interventions. More than a mere science of perception\, aesthetics plays an important\, but often overlooked\, role in the theory and practice of institutional forms of psychotherapy\, and guide psychosocially informed politics. The Visual Cultures Spring 2023 Public Programme looks to elucidate a psychosocial understanding of the interconnected role aesthetics play in politics and psychotherapeutic practice.\nThis series is organised in partnership with the Association for Psychosocial Studies.\n\nSchedule:\n• Thursday 19/01: Jacob Johanssen\n• Thursday 26/01: Susan Kelly\n• Thursday 02/02: Hannah Dee\n• Thursday 09/02: George Dake\n• Thursday 16/02: Rachel Wilson\n• Thursday 02/03: Janna Graham and Wanderley Santos\n• Thursday 09/03: Lita Crociani-Windland and Jonathan Mosley\n• Thursday 16/03: Felix Birch and Sebastian Birch\n• Thursday 23/03: Guilaine Kinouani\n• Friday 24/03: Workshop with Lynn Frogget\n• Thursday 30/03: Nini Fang\n\nLectures will be held in the Professor Stuart Hall Building (Goldsmiths)\, LG01. No booking required. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/hannah-dee-its-a-good-home-aint-it-memories-of-broadmoor/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221219T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221219T170000
DTSTAMP:20260525T030131
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SUMMARY:Playful States of Mind
DESCRIPTION:Organisers: Lynne Froggett\, Noreen Giffney and Candida Yates\n\n\n\nDate: December 19th 2022 \nVenue: Room G10\, Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre\, Birkbeck\, University of London\, 43 Gordon Square\, London WC1H 0PD. \nASP Playful States of Mind 19.12.2022 \nWhat do the terms ‘play’\, ‘playin \ng’ and ‘playfulness’ mean in different contexts? How might we understand play as both a doing and a being; an activity and a state of mind? In what ways might play be related to creativity and destructiveness? What kinds of feelings might be enacted\, evoked or contained while engaging in moments of play? How do we play and what might we be communicating to ourselves and others\, consciously and unconsciously\, in our play and in the ways in which we play? Why is a capacity for play so important for our mental health and general wellbeing? How might psychoanalysis and psychosocial studies help us to reflect on our experiences of play? These questions will frame our event. \nThis event will offer a series of immersive experiences centred around play\, to help us to reflect on and talk about our individual and collective encounters with play. The emphasis will be on experience\, reflection and conversation. Participants are encouraged to wear comfortab \nle clothing and be prepared for an encounter with the unknown. \nThis event will app \neal to anyone interested in play\, imagination and creativity. It will be of particular interest to psychoanalysts\, psychotherapists\, psychologists\, counsellors\, group analysts\, play therapists\, creative arts therapists\, social workers and social care workers\, mental health workers\, youth workers\, artists\, performers and curators\, as well as academic researchers and students in the fields of psychosocial studies\, cultural studies\, and in the arts\, humanities and social sciences more broadly. \nPlaces are limited so early registration is advised. Participants are requested to register only if they are available to attend the whole day\, as this event makes use of a group experience. \nBook here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/playful-states-of-mind-tickets- \n448238151377
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/playful-states-of-mind/
LOCATION:Birkbeck College\, WC1E 7HX
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220617T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220618T170000
DTSTAMP:20260525T030131
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SUMMARY:Psychosocial Cartographies
DESCRIPTION:Cartography\, the art and science of mapping space\, has a history which cannot be separated from issues of power\, control and alienation. Indeed\, mapping the Americas\, Asia and Africa was integral to colonial projects to dominate the land as well as all that inhabited it. As thinkers such as Frantz Fanon and Michel Foucault demonstrate throughout their oeuvres (cf. “On Violence” from The Wretched of the Earth and “Panopticism” from Discipline and Punish)\, controlling a space directly impacts the psychic development of those who inhabit that space. This is to say that mapping always already has implications that are psychosocial in nature. \nThere is also an important\, if often overlooked\, history of psychosocial approaches to cartography. Examples of this include: Fanon who was\, in the words of his mentor François Tosquelles\, first and foremost a thinker of space; Fernand Deligny’s work with non-verbal autistic children mapping how they inhabit space in order to establish therapeutic relationships with them; Félix Guattari famously approached his understanding of the unconscious via cartography\, a practice indebted to Deligny; and Jean Oury\, Guattari’s long-time collaborator and the founder and director of La Borde Clinic\, whose approach to psychotherapy began with a phenomenological mapping of the clinic. Different from psychogeography and the dérive\, the afore mentioned practitioners actively mapped space in order to radically rework it\, disalienating the institutional arrangements and the individuals within. \nToday\, be it in relationship to issues of racialisation\, digital networks\, urban studies\, climate change\, political transformations\, prison abolition\, clinical work in hospitals or care in the community\, the need for a psychosocial understanding of cartography is perhaps more urgent than ever. This conference will seek to elicit psychosocial approaches to mapping space in order to inform how we might address the spatial concerns that structure contemporary issues of race\, geography\, psychotherapy\, ecology and politics. \nThis two-day conference will involve a blended (in person and online) programme of panels\, experiential interventions and a keynote presentation by Anne Querrien. \nhttps://www.psychosocialcartographies.com/ \nEmail question to Anthony Faramelli at a.faramelli@gold.ac.uk
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/psychosocial-cartographies/
LOCATION:Prague\, Czech Republic
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220504
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220508
DTSTAMP:20260525T030131
CREATED:20230209T144305Z
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SUMMARY:6 months on from COP26 Psycho-Social Reflections: What have we learnt?
DESCRIPTION:The Association for Psychosocial Studies and the Climate Psychology Alliance are jointly hosting a two-day\, international online event reflecting through a psychosocial lens upon the lessons learnt 6 months after COP26. \nTwo parallel events will be taking place – one in the Western Time Zone and one in the Eastern Time Zone. Sessions in both regions will mirror one another\, with the events being a mixture of live and pre-recorded sessions. \nKeynote Speakers: \nPaul Hoggett – From COP15 in Copenhagen to COP26 in Glasgow \nShelot Masithi – Climate Change and Thirs \nThis event aims to: \n\n\nFace together the realities on the ground as a result of the failure of COP26 to effectively tackle disastrous levels of global heating. \n\n\nIncrease understanding and enable dialogue between different climate-affected groups and places across the globe. \n\n\nIdentify and support emergent processes that strengthen individual and community resilience in their engagement with climate crisis \n\n\nSupport the development of psycho-socially informed perspectives and practices around climate change and its impact upon physical and mental wellbeing. \nKeynote speeches will be delivered by Paul Hoggett and Shelot Masithi. More information about their speeches can befound here. \nAcross the two-days and two time zones\, there will be four panel discussions focusing on different aspects of the climate emergency and how different nations/actors have responded. \nFor a detailed overview of the event\, please visit the event website. The website will be updated on a regular basis\, with a section dedicated to useful resources linked to the event.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/6-months-on-from-cop26-psycho-social-reflections-what-have-we-learnt/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210701
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210711
DTSTAMP:20260525T030131
CREATED:20230209T151651Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110413Z
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SUMMARY:APS Online Conference: Psychosocial Bodies
DESCRIPTION:Agenda and Zoom Link Booklet\nPsychosocial Bodies Conference Booklet\nDropbox folder with conference presentation slides\n\nRecordings of Keynote Talks\nInvited Speakers: \n\nEzimma Chigbo\nProfessor Derek Hook\nProfessor Elelwani Ramugondo\n\nAPS 2020 Conference Committee: Lindsey Nicholls\, Poul Rohleder\, Julie Walsh\, Deborah Wright\, University Of Essex; Anthony Faramelli\, IoE UCL; Sarah Shorrock\, UCLan \n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-online-conference-psychosocial-bodies/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200529T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200731T170000
DTSTAMP:20260525T030131
CREATED:20200612T151345Z
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SUMMARY:APS Summer Programme 2020
DESCRIPTION:The APS is very excited to be hosting a series of topical events and in an array of formats during the summer of 2020. Please click here for more details and free registration links: APS Summer 2020 Programme.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-2020-summer-programme/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Reading Group,Seminar,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191218T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191218T200000
DTSTAMP:20260525T030131
CREATED:20191030T125757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T111204Z
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SUMMARY:AGM and Relaunch of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies
DESCRIPTION:We  are delighted  to celebrate the publication of the double re-launch issue of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies. The journal will henceforth be published by Policy Press. This move to a professional academic publishing platform reflects the strength of the journal and growing national and international recognition of the unique place it occupies in the field of psychosocial studies. \nMore info here
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/agm-and-relaunch-of-the-journal-of-psychosocial-studies/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190516T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190517T170000
DTSTAMP:20260525T030131
CREATED:20181130T113028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T111222Z
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SUMMARY:The 'READING’ CONFERENCE 2019
DESCRIPTION:ASSOCIATION OF PSYCHOSOCIAL STUDIES ‘READING’ CONFERENCE 2019. \nAt Birkbeck\, University of London\, Thursday 16th and Friday 17th May 2019 \nThe Psychosocial – reflections and developments \n  \nThe APS Reading Conference 2019 will create an innovative space for developing the field of psychosocial studies. Over two days\, you will have the opportunity to participate in discussion of contemporary and foundational psychosocial texts as well as symposia and workshops exploring cutting edge psychosocial ideas and research on contemporary politics and culture. Our aim is to open up spaces for us to listen to each other and for new ideas and projects to develop. \n  \nTo register for the conference\, please follow this link: \nAPS Reading Conference 2019 \n  \nConference Fees: \n\n£50 – waged non APS members\n£40 – waged APS members\n£20 – unwaged\n\nConference Format: \nThe conference has an innovative format\, including: \n  \nSCHEDULED SPACES FOR GROUP DISCUSSIONS \nTo share and discuss ideas from the sessions and to make links to your own work and generate ideas for the future. \n  \nREADING SESSIONS \nTo read key texts together: these will be made available to all registered participants prior to the conference\, so that the session can focus on discussion. There will also be an opportunity to respond in writing to key texts prior to the conference\, using an online conference file sharing system. \nSessions will be lead by: \n\nAnn Phoenix reading ‘On the Postcolony: a brief response to critics’ by Achille Mbembe (2005)\nStephen Frosh reading ‘Birthing Racial Difference: conversations with my mother and others’ by Lewis\, G (2009)\nCandida Yates reading ‘Something to Do with a Girl Named Marla Singer: Capitalism\, Narcissism\, and Therapeutic Discourse in David Fincher’s Fight Club’ by Layton\, L. (2011)\nKate Kenny reading ‘The explosion of real time and the structural conditions of temporality in a society of control: durations and urgencies of academic research’ by Lapping\, C. (2017)\nThe Activist Research Collective reading ‘Borderline personality disorder\, discrimination\, and survivors of chronic childhood trauma’ by Andrea Nicki (2016)\nSasha Roseneil reading ‘’Part 1: General Introduction’\, Introduction to Group Analytic Psychotherapy: Studies in the Social Interaction of Individuals and Groups’\, by Foulkes\, SH (1948)\nPaul Stenner reading ‘Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena’ by Winnicott\, D. (1953)\n… and more …\n\n  \nCREATIVE PANELS AND WORKSHOPS EXPLORING ART\, POLITICS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY \n\nCritical Psychotherapy and Psychosocial Studies: Psychogeotherapy\, Risk and Theatre\nThe Unconscious in the Social World\nThe Image and the Psyche in Psychosocial Studies\nOur Music\, Our lives: the emotional and affective experience(s) of popular music\nThe Group as a Liminal Space: Recognition and Reparation for Political Trauma Survivors\nContributions to Psychosocial Thought and Practice from Latin America\nInconsolable Positions of (neoliberal) Critique in Psychosocial Research\nWaiting Times: Psychosocial thoughts on time and care\nFeminine Desire and the Postcolonial Condition\nThe Racialisation of Sexual Violence: some thoughts on discursive repression and projection\nProtest\nThe Body\nSee it – say it – sort it: Resistance\, surveillance and silencing\nSame As\, Similar to or Different From: negotiating relationships in narrative research\n\nPlease register soon to secure a place: APS Reading Conference 2019
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/the-reading-conference-2019/
LOCATION:Birkbeck College\, WC1E 7HX
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181214T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181214T180000
DTSTAMP:20260525T030131
CREATED:20181129T095617Z
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SUMMARY:Annual General Members' Meeting and Panel: Mental Health and The Emotional Work of the Gig Economy
DESCRIPTION:3.30-5pm: Panel on Mental Health and The Emotional Work of the Gig Economy \nSpeakers: \nSally-Anne Gross and Dr George Musgrave (University of Westminster): Can Music Make You Sick? \n\nIn recent years there has been a growing body of research that has begun to examine the dark side of our relationship to music. The media understandably concentrate on the more sensational aspects of rock and roll; membership of ‘27 Club’\, or the recent public declaration of critically acclaimed dubstep producer Benga as suffering from schizophrenia (Hutchinson\, 2015). There is then a tension emerging between the notion that artistry is positive both for the economy and for well-being\, and a growing awareness that a musical career is a risky business.\n‘Can Music Make You Sick?’ surveyed over 2\,200 musicians working in the United Kingdom\, and interviewed more than 25 musicians and industry professionals\, to explore how they are emotionally experiencing working in the music industry in the United Kingdom. This paper presents findings from this project\, which seeks to ask challenging questions of music\, and specifically musical ambition and aspirations\, in the current climate of precarious labour and hyper competition. Is it possible that musical aspirations are potentially making artists sick?\n\nJack Newsinger (University of Nottingham): Resilience in austerity cultural policy and practice \nResilience is a key theme in austerity Britain\, prominent across government policy\, popular discourses\, business and management thinking and academia. This paper is about the deployment of the concept of resilience in cultural policy and practice. It is based on an extensive engagement with literature\, an analysis of cultural policy discourse\, and qualitative data drawn from 23 in-depth interviews with freelance cultural practitioners. I adapt Robin James’s (2015) concept of resilience to show how arts leaders and practitioners generate performative narratives that seek to publicly represent their capacity to adapt to austerity\, and we explore the different versions of resilience thinking that these narratives mobilise. I argue that resilience in cultural policy and practice draws upon psychological conceptions of resilience which unwittingly produces a discursive surplus which becomes reinvested in institutions\, providing subsequent justification for the processes of post-crisis austerity itself.\n\n5-6pm: Annual General Meeting (for APS members)\n \n6pm: Drinks (open to all) \n  \nFree registration: \nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/association-for-psychosocial-studies-agm-event-mental-health-and-the-emotional-work-of-the-gig-tickets-52064771132?utm_term=eventname_text
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/annual-general-members-meeting-and-panel-mental-health-and-the-emotional-work-of-the-gig-economy/
LOCATION:University of Westminster\, Boardroom\, 309 Regent Street\, London\, W1B 2HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180405T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180407T170000
DTSTAMP:20260525T030131
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SUMMARY:Annual Conference: ‘Psychosocial Reflections on a Half Century of Cultural Revolution’
DESCRIPTION:Venue:\n\nUniversity of Bournemouth\n\nDate: \n\n5th-7th April 2018\n\n\nCall for papers\n\nDeadline: 22nd January 2018\nSend your abstract of 250–300 words to: APS2018@bournemouth.ac.uk\n\n*Due to popular demand\, we have added a new open stream for those who wish to submit proposals for papers\, panels or artistic presentations on:\n“Current and Future Directions in Psychosocial Studies”\n\n‘Psychosocial Reflections on a Half Century of Cultural Revolution’\n  \nJoin us to reflect on revolutionary relationships and revolutionary politics which challenged authority then and which influence us now. \nThe cultural forces and the political movements of 1967 and 1968 aimed to change the world\, and did so. Recent development of some populist and protest politics could be seen as a continuation of the revolutionary movements in the 1960s. Hedonistic themes that recall the summer of love suffuse contemporary life\, and self-reflection and emotional literacy have also become prominent values\, linked towards human diversity and the international community. \nWe invite you to offer psychosocial analyses of the development and legacy today of the ‘revolutions’ in love\, sex and politics. This could be via explorations of contemporary issues in politics\, culture and artistic expression\, or through historical studies. All proposals for papers must indicate how they address both psychological and social dimensions of their topic. \n  \n\n  \nSend your abstract of 250-300 words to APS2018@bournemouth.ac.uk \nDeadline: 22nd January 2018. \n(Existing submissions\, notified by 1st November). \n  \nSend your abstract of 250-300 words to: APS2018@bournemouth.ac.uk \n  \nTopics could include: \n\nWhat happened to hate in the Summer of Love?\nLennon vs Lenin: did 1967 and 1968 announce two divergent trends in contemporary culture\, and what has happened since to the psychosocial forces they expressed?\nWhat are the meanings of ‘liberation’ today?\nNew inequalities in post-industrial societies\nThe resurgence of religion\nThe Six Day War\, intifadas\, and intractability\nThe planetary environment: fantasies and politics\nTrajectories of feminism\nThe changing nature of ageing\n‘The personal is political’ and other rhetoric in historical context\nFree minds and free markets\nThe ethics of freedom: for example\, where now for freedom of speech?\nFrom the Manson Family to the Islamic State\nPop music’s global conquest and musical hybridity\nChanges in artistic practice\, creativity and commodification\nThe transformation of media\nThe digitisation of everything\nHigher education: democratisation and marketisation\nThe potential and limitations of theories of narcissism as a major tool for understanding late modern/postmodern cultures\nNew narcissisms in the 21st century\nTherapeutic culture and its critics\nWhere are they now? Biographical narratives of the revolutionaries\nStates of mind in pivotal moments: San Francisco 67\, Paris 68\, and since\nThe sense of entitlement: narcissism or social justice?\nThe decline of deference and its consequences\nThe hatred of government and authority\nThe sexualisation of culture\nControlled decontrolling or repressive desublimation? Elias and Marcuse on cultural liberalisation\nOur bodies ourselves: shifting patterns and perceptions of embodiment.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/annual-conference-psychosocial-reflections-on-a-half-century-of-cultural-revolution/
LOCATION:University of Bournemouth
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Annual General Meeting of the Association for Psychosocial Studies. \nAll members and interested parties welcome. \n  \nFriday 15th December\, 4.00->6.00pm  \n  \nCommittee Room 3; 30 Bedford Way (Institute of Education/UCL) London WC1H 0AL.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/annual-general-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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