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SUMMARY:Psychosocial Methodologies: Politics and Change
DESCRIPTION:Psychosocial Methodologies: Politics and Change \n  \nUCL Institute of Education in association with the Association for Psychosocial Studies and the University of Birmingham \n  \nDates: over 3 days \nMonday June 18th10am – 5pm \nTuesday June 19th  10am- 5pm \nWednesday June 20thand 10 am – 1.15pm \n  \nTutors: Claudia Lapping\, Ian McGimpsey\, Maria Jose Lagos\, Felipe Acuna \n  \nVenue: \nUCL Institute of Education\, Rooms tbc\n20 Bedford Way\nBloomsbury\, London\nWC1H OAL \n  \nRegistration: \nUCL students – as usual. \nNon UCL students: Please contact Bob Grist: r.grist@ucl.ac.uk \nFor any queries about the course\, please contact Claudia Lapping: c.lapping@ucl.ac.uk \n  \n  \nPsychosocial Methodologies: Politics and Change  \n  \nThis experimental\, intensive\, two and a half day course will explore different ways of understanding politics and processes of change. Drawing on selected texts from key theorists in the fields of psychoanalysis\, social and cultural theory (e.g. Butler\, Deleuze\, Freud\, Lacan\, Laclau and Mouffe\, Zizek) we will engage with a series of concepts each of which functions as a lens for the analysis of politics or processes of change. Each text provides a slightly different framework for identifying both what counts as change\, and for the construction of interventions that might help to provoke or direct subjective and/or political change. Methodologically\, these frameworks orient us for the empirical examination of discourse\, language\, affect or desire\, time\, regulatory technologies\, and relations to individual and institutional o/Others. Sessions will explore: \n\nProcesses of subjective and political change\nWhat is sayable? Processes of repression or disguise in discourse\nThe ethics of researching traumatic events\nThe event and the limit experience\nThe question of memorialisation\nTrauma\, Repetition and memory\nTime\, politics and the Other\n\n  \nIn the sessions we will discuss the frameworks set out in the selected texts and\, importantly\, explore how these might be applied in the analysis of a concrete instance or piece of data related to a specific political moment. We see the course as an invitation for participants to take part in a project exploring this political moment with us. Through engaging in this project\, which involves concrete processes of analysis\, we will gain insights into both psychosocial methodologies and the event that is the object of the data we are exploring. As such\, participants should be prepared to engage in discussions of recent concrete events that involve loss and the precarity of human life\, distributive injustices\, and symbolic violence. Participants will be asked to prepare through detailed readings of the core texts in advance of the session. \n  \nKey Texts – Relevant chapters and extracts will be specified! \nButler\, J. 2004. ‘Violence\, Mourning\, Politics’ in Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. London: Verso \nDeleuze\, G. (1990/1969) Deleuze Logic of Sense. Twenty-First Series of the Event (pp. 169-175) and Twenty-Third Series of the Aion (pp. 186-193). London: Bloomsbury Academic \nDeleuze\, G. (2004). Difference and repetition. London: Continuum – Extracts \nFreud\, S. (1914). Remembering\, Repeating\, and Working Through. In Freud\, S. (2003). Beyond the pleasure principle. Penguin UK. \nFreud\, S. (1920). Beyond the Pleasure Principle. In Freud\, S. (2003). Beyond the pleasure principle. Penguin UK. – Extracts \nFoucault\, M. (2000/1978) Interview with Michel Foucault. In Power. Essential works of Foucault 1954-1984 (pp.239-297). Edited by James D. Faubion. \nGerson\, S. (2009). When the third is dead: Memory\, mourning\, and witnessing in the aftermath of the Holocaust. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis\, 90(6)\, 1341-1357. \nLacan\, J. (2006). Logical time and the assertion of anticipated certainty. In B. Fink (Tr)\, Jacques Lacan\, Ecrits: The first complete edition in English (pp. 161–175). London: W. W. Norton and Company \nLaclau\, E. & Mouffe\, C. Section of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy\, Verso – Extracts \nWiegman\, R. (2000) ‘Feminism’s Apocalyptic Futures’\, New Literary Histories\, 31: 805-825 \nZizek\, S. 1989\, The Sublime Object of Ideology\, Verso – Extracts \n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/psychosocial-methodologies-politics-and-change-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180405T080000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171215T160000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171101T170000
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SUMMARY:Psychosocial Methodologies: Politics and Change
DESCRIPTION:  \nA short doctoral course offered by UCL Institute of Education in association with the Association for Psychosocial Studies and the University of Birmingham\n  \nDates: 5 – 7pm\, Wednesdays 1st\, 8th\, 15th\, 22nd\, 29th November 2017\nVenue:  UCL Institute of Education\, Room 537\n             20  Bedford Way\n             London \n            WC1H OAL\nTutors: Claudia Lapping\, Ian McGimpsey\, Maria Jose Lagos\, Felipe Acuna\n  \nRegistration: \nUCL students – as usual. \nNon-UCL students: Please contact Bob Grist: r.grist@ucl.ac.uk to register and access course Moodle site. \nMax: 25 students \nAny queries about the course\, please contact Claudia Lapping: c.lapping@ucl.ac.uk \n  \nPsychosocial Methodologies: Politics and Change\n  \nThis series of five sessions will focus on politics and processes of change. Drawing on selected texts from key theorists in the fields of psychoanalysis\, social and cultural theory (including: Butler\, Deleuze\, Freud\, Foucault\, Gerson\, Lacan\, Wiegman\, Zizek) we will engage with a series of concepts each of which functions as a lens for the analysis of politics or processes of change. Each text provides a slightly different framework for identifying both what counts as change\, and for the construction of interventions that might help to provoke or direct subjective and/or political change. Methodologically\, these frameworks orient us for the empirical examination of discourse\, language\, affect or desire\, time\, regulatory technologies\, and relations to individual and institutional o/Others. Sessions will explore: \n  \n\nSession 1: Change\nSession 2: Ideology\, discourse and the role of the signifier\nSession 3: The event and limit experience\nSession 4: Repetition and memory\nSession 5: Time\, politics and the Other\n\nIn the sessions we will discuss the frameworks set out in the selected texts and\, importantly\, explore how these might be applied in the analysis of a concrete instance or piece of data related to a specific political moment. It is through engaging in this process of analysis that psychosocial methodologies will be explored. As such\, participants should be prepared to engage in discussions of recent concrete events that involve loss and the precarity of human life\, distributive injustices\, and symbolic violence. Participants will be asked to prepare through detailed readings of the core texts in advance of the session. \n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/psychosocial-methodologies-politics-and-change/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170704T180000
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SUMMARY:Reasons to be cheerful or manic hope? Thoughts on the general election
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nTuesday 4 July\, 6-8pm – The Tavistock Centre\, Belsize Lane\, NW3 \n  \nA roundtable discussion organised by the Tavistock Clinic Policy Seminar\, the Association for Psychosocial Studies\, and the BSA’s Sociology Psychoanalysis and Psychosocial Study Group. \nThe result of the recent general election took many of us by surprise. Labour’s unexpected surge in the polls and the loss of 13 Conservative seats indicate that large sections of the electorate are weary of austerity\, reject the populist ‘Little England’ and anti-immigration sentiments that helped fuel the Brexit vote\, and are either sceptical about a ‘hard’ Brexit or oppose leaving the EU altogether. After nearly 40 years in which neoliberalism has dominated British politics\, is there now an opening for a social democratic or socialist vision of Britain’s future? If so\, what might that vision \nlook like and how would we get there? And what can a psychosocial perspective contribute to our understanding those questions? This roundtable discussion will explore the potential lessons of the general election and consider possibilities for the renewal of social democracy in the 21st century. \n Speakers Georgina Blakeley\, Jon Cruddas MP and Michael Rustin \n  \nGeorgina Blakeley is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Open University. She has published widely on citizen participation and urban governance. Her co-authored book The Regeneration of East Manchester: A Political Analysis was published in 2013. \nJon Cruddas is MP for Dagenham and Rainham\, and was Policy Coordinator for the Labour Party between 2012 and 2015. \n  \nMichael Rustin is a Visiting Professor at the Tavistock Clinic\, and a founding editor of Soundings. A paper by him on the election is online at: \nhttps://www.lwbooks.co.uk/blog/ge2017-corbyn-labour-what-next \n  \nAttendance is free but bookings can be made here: \n  \nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reasons-to-be-cheerful-or-manic-hope-thoughts-on-the-general-election-tickets-35728334410 \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/reasons-to-be-cheerful-or-manic-hope-thoughts-on-the-general-election/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170616T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170616T170000
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SUMMARY:Narcissism and Destructive Leadership
DESCRIPTION:The idea that there are ‘narcissistic’ individuals who can wreak havoc when in positions of leadership and power has been receiving considerable public attention. Stories from  political arenas\,  corporate boardrooms and public organisations tell of the damage done by particularly destructive individuals who gain positions of power. \nSuperficially at least\, the fit between the clinical formulations of Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the behaviour of a number of prominent individuals seems strong. The seemingly overwhelming confidence in their own ability\, the very grand sense of their own importance\, alongside the disparagement\, and aggression aimed at those who threaten their persona appears to fit well with the clinical accounts that emerged from psychoanalytic accounts of ‘narcissistic personality disorder’ some decades ago. \nOf course\, serious questions have been raised about the utility of such psychological concepts to understand what might be better understood as more complex sociopolitical phenomena. Should we also be thinking more about the attraction of such personalities\, and the organisations and cultures that promote them? Perhaps we need further analysis of the sociocultural conditions that create or encourage such states of mind? It is now over 35 years since Christopher Lasch published his stinging indictment of ‘post industrial’ American society – Culture of Narcissism. How much relevance does that analysis of social conditions have today? \nThis seminar will examine the status and utility of conceptualisations of narcissistic personality disorder and narcissistic cultures.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/narcissism-and-destructive-leadership/
LOCATION:The Foundry\, 17 Oval Way\, London SE11 5RR\, London\, London\, SE11 5RR\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:PSYCHOSOCIAL CONNECTIONS:  PRACTICE\, POLICY AND RESEARCH
DESCRIPTION:1st  Annual Conference of the Association for Psychosocial Studies \n16-17 December 2014 \nhosted by the Psychosocial Research Unit\, University of Central Lancashire \nPreston PR12HE \nMORE INFORMATION and CALL FOR PAPERS TO FOLLOW \nAbstract Submission deadline will be 1-07-2014
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/psychosocial-connections-practice-policy-and-research/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140613T103000
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SUMMARY:THE PSYCHOSOCIAL IMAGINATION
DESCRIPTION:A symposium to celebrate the launch of \nThe Association for Psychosocial Studies \nFriday 13 June 2014 \n10.30am – 6.30pm \nat The British Library Conference Centre \nSt Pancras\, London \nwith talks\, responses and contributions \nfrom a wide range of psychosocial thinkers\, practitioners and researchers including: \nJohn 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) \nChaired by: \nLynn Froggett (UCLAN)\, Liz Frost (UWE) & Tom Wengraf \nOrganised in collaboration with the \nSocial Sciences Department of the British Library \nLimited places – registration essential. \nCost\, including morning and afternoon tea & coffee\, lunch and a celebratory wine reception with canapés: \nMembers: £40 \nUnwaged members: £25 \nNon-members: £70 \nUnwaged non-members: £35 \nTo register\, click here
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/the-psychosocial-imagination/
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