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SUMMARY:Performing (Post) Pandemic Grief: Prof Fintan Walsh
DESCRIPTION:Register here \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nWe are incredibly happy to invite you to join us for our next APS online reading group! We are delighted to welcome Fintan Walsh to present his research on the reckoning with grief in pandemic theatre. \nPlease join us to learn more about the vital contribution of theatrical performance to the ongoing work of public mourning in the wake of COVID-19. \nIn advance of the session\, please access Prof Walsh’s new book: Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres. The text is quite short but we especially invite participants to read sections 1\, 4 and Coda. \nAbstract: \nThis Element explores how theatre responded to the death and loss produced by the COVID-19 pandemic\, by innovating forms and spaces designed to support us in grief. It considers how theatre grieved for itself\, for the dead\, for lost ways of living\, while also imagining and enacting new modes of being together. Even as it reckoned with its own demise\, theatre endeavoured to collectivise grief by performing a range of functions more commonly associated with funerary\, health and social care services\, which buckled under restrictions and neglect. These pandemic theatres show how grief cannot only be let mourn over individual losses in private\, but how it must also seep into the public sphere to fight to save critical services\, institutions\, communities and art forms\, including theatre itself. \nAuthor biography: \nFintan Walsh is Professor of Performing Arts and Humanities at Birkbeck\, University of London\, where is the founding Director of Birbeck Creative Practice Lab and Head of the School of Creative Arts\, Culture and Communication. His research focuses on theatre\, performance and cross-disciplinary arts practice\, with monographs including Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres (Cambridge University Press\, 2024)\, Performing the Queer Past: Public Possessions (Methuen Drama\, 2023)\, Theatre & Therapy (Methuen Drama\, 2013; expanded and reissued 2024)\, Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland: Dissent and Disorientation (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2016)\, and Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2010). Edited volumes include Writing Queer Performance: Contemporary Texts and Documents (Methuen Drama\, 2025)\, Theatres of Contagion: Transmitting Early Modern to Contemporary (Methuen Drama\, 2020)\, That Was Us: Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance (Oberon Books\, 2013)\, Performance\, Identity and the Neo-Political Subject (with Matthew Causey\, Routledge\, 2013)\, Queer Notions: New Plays and Performances from Ireland (Cork University Press\, 2010)\, and Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture (with Sara Brady\, Palgrave Macmillan\, 2009). Fintan is the founder and Senior Editor of the series Elements in Contemporary Performance Texts (Cambridge University Press) and is a former Senior Editor of the journal Theatre Research International (Cambridge University Press).
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/performing-post-pandemic-grief-prof-fintan-walsh/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Rising Authoritarianism and the Implications for Counselling and Psychotherapy\, Friday\, 11th April 2025 
DESCRIPTION:Rising Authoritarianism and the Implications for Counselling and Psychotherapy\, Friday\, 11th April 2025 \n \nWe warmly invite students\, staff\, and the wider therapeutic community to a mini symposium exploring the impact of rising authoritarianism on counselling and psychotherapy. As political landscapes shift globally\, we will examine how authoritarian dynamics influence personal and collective psychosocial wellbeing\, therapeutic practice\, and the profession itself.\n\nJoin us for a morning of insightful discussions with leading thinkers in the field by registering here.\n\nDate: Friday\, 11th April 2025\nTime: 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM\nVenue: Hybrid; Mclaren Stuart Room\, Old College\, University of Edinburgh\nPlease note: this event is hybrid for accessibility – it is free and open to all. We highly encourage in-person attendance for those in and around Edinburgh. \n\n\nSymposium Programme\n\n10:00 – 10:10 AM | Opening Remarks by Nini Kerr\n10:10 – 10:50 AM | William Kerr – Nationalism and the Global Rise of Authoritarianism\nBreak\n11:00 – 11:40 AM | Susie Orbach – The Seductions and Perils of Authoritarianism\nBreak\n12:00 – 12:40 PM | Barry Richards – Toxic Confusions In and Around Authoritarianism Today\n12:40 – 1:10 PM | Small Group Discussion – Rising Authoritarianism and the Implications for Counselling and Psychotherapy\n1:10 – 1:30 PM | Final Plenary\n\n \nThis symposium offers a space for critical reflection on the rise of authoritarianism and its implications for therapeutic practice and communities. the role of the therapist and of course\, We see our coming together as a political act of engagement in these turbulent times and look forward to your participation in this timely conversation. The symposium is funded by Student Experience Grant\n\nSymposium Convenors: Nini Kerr\, Rhea Gandhi\, and Jahnavi Dutta\nSymposium Anchors: Yaxin Hu (Prof Doc)\, Beca Sammon (MSc in ICC)\, Ally Fukada (MSc in CS)\, Kartika Ladwal (Prof Doc)\n\nIf you have any queries regarding registration\, please contact Rhea\, who is able to advise you: rhea.gandhi@ed.ac.uk\n\n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/rising-authoritarianism-and-the-implications-for-counselling-and-psychotherapy-friday-11th-april-2025/
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SUMMARY:Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity - Annual Conference 2025
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URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/hope-and-despair-crisis-and-opportunity-annual-conference-2025/
LOCATION:St. Mary’s University\, Twickenham\, Waldegrave Road\, London\, TW1 4SX\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:WORLD COMES ALIVE: Virtual Reality and Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:World Comes Alive \nExperience & discussion of psychoanalytically informed Virtual Reality \nTavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust\, London \n  \nThursday 19 June 2025 at 5.00 – 8 pm \n(VR experiences by appointment from 3 – 4.30 pm \nBook your place here\n  \nEvent brochure: World Comes Alive Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust Final document-1
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/world-comes-alive-virtual-reality-and-psychoanalysis/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:APS Conference 2026
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URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-conference-2026/
LOCATION:St. Mary’s University\, Twickenham\, Waldegrave Road\, London\, TW1 4SX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Spoken Word: An Introduction to Psychosocial Thematic Analysis (PTA)
DESCRIPTION:This seminar introduces the methodological foundations of Psychosocial Thematic Analysis (PTA)\, with Dr Isaac Chun-Yeung Yu and Dr Nini Kerr \nPsychosocial Thematic Analysis (PTA) is a qualitative analytical approach that explores the interplay between individual psychic lives and wider social dynamics. This seminar introduces the methodological foundations of PTA\, giving a context of how it developed\, and taking the audience through its key principles including the “triadic attentiveness”. Using Isaac’s recent research\, this seminar will illustrate how triadic attentiveness guides the developments of psychosocial themes and interpretations across the six phases. Finally\, we will offer some thoughts on what reflexivity means in PTA. \nThe seminar is open to all; it welcomes postgraduate students\, early-career researchers and academics interested in qualitative methodologies\, psychosocial research and psychoanalytically informed approaches. No prior experience of psychosocial research is required.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/beyond-the-spoken-word-an-introduction-to-psychosocial-thematic-analysis-pta/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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SUMMARY:The Current Social and Political Situation in Iran
DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss the current social and political situation in Iran with psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners. \nThis international online event\, organised by the Association for Psychosocial Studies\, brings together Iranian and non-Iranian members of the psychoanalytic and psychosocial communities to reflect on the current social and political situation in Iran. \nWhat are the possibilities of psychoanalysis in conditions of prolonged uncertainty and political violence? How do Iranians survive and psychically endure mass social trauma\, state terror\, the impact of sanctions and colonial warfare? And does the political imaginary of the psychosocial community afford sufficient recognition and solidarity to its Iranian members? \nThis event will feature contributions from psychosocial and psychoanalytic scholars and practitioners\, based inside and outside Iran: Nazanin Shahbazi\, Sheyda Esmaili\, Mona Jamshidi Nasab\, Shahrzad Hashemi and Sheyda Zokaeieh. \nContributors will explore the bodily charge of political consciousness; the possibilities and limits of psychoanalysis in Iran; alienation within political debates; and the question of collective identity. \nFollowing the presentations\, there will be time for questions and discussion among all participants. The event will not be recorded. Register now to confirm your place! \nRecommended reading: \nHashemi\, S. ‘Don’t woman\, life\, freedom us\, murderers!’: woman\, life\, freedom between silence and spectacle. Journal of Psychosocial Studies (2026). https://doi.org/10.1332/14786737Y2026D000000084 \nShahbazi\, N. Right after the cut: subjectivity and the Real in Iran’s 2025–2026 uprising. Subjectivity (2026). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-026-00261-5
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/the-current-social-and-political-situation-in-iran/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270625T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270627T130000
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SUMMARY:APS Conference 2027
DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-conference-2027/
LOCATION:St. Mary’s University\, Twickenham\, Waldegrave Road\, London\, TW1 4SX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Call for papers,Conference
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