Past Events: Psychoanalysis and History Seminars
Convenors/contacts: Sally Alexander, History department, Goldsmiths (s.alexander@gold.ac.uk), Kate Hodgkin, School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, UEL (k.hodgkin@uel.ac.uk), Barbara Taylor, School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, UEL (b.taylor@uel.ac.uk)
1 June 2011, Carolyn Burdett (Birkbeck).
'Coining Empathy: Aesthetics as Psychology'
4 May 2011, Roundtable at the Freud Museum
Psychoanalysis and Politics.
Participants: Stephen Frosh (Birkbeck), Daniel Pick (Birkbeck),
Timothy Ashplant. Chair: Sally Alexander.
30 March 2011, Graham Dawson (University of Brighton)
'The desire for justice, psychic reparation, and the politics of memory in 'post-conflict' Northern Ireland'
2nd February 2011, Erik Linstrum (Harvard, Institute of Historical Research)
'Visuality in British Colonial Psychology'.
19 January 2011, Margaret Rustin and Michael Rustin (Tavistock Clinic and the University of East London)
'Melanie Klein and the Origins of Child Analysis'
8 December, Rhodri Hayward (Queen Mary University of London)
The Pursuit of Serenity: Psychological Knowledge and the making of the British Welfare State.
27 October, 'Landscapes of Masculinities: Egyptian and English Men in the Shadow of Each Other' Amal Treacher (University of Nottingham and Cairo).
5 May 2010, History and Time, Eva Hoffman (writer), Bill Schwarz (QMUL), Esther Leslie (Birkbeck), Susannah Radstone (UEL). Freud Museum:
10 March 2010, 'The Founding of an Emigre Family Business in Post-WWII London: Creativity and Survival', Susanna Neurath (Tavistock Clinic)
2009
2 December 2009, Roundtable discussion of Michael Roper's The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War (Manchester, 2009). Peter Barham, Deborah Thom (Robinson College, Cambridge), Sally Alexander (chair). Michael Roper (Essex) will respond.
4 November 2009, Neil Vickers (Kings College London)
Roger Money-Kyrle and the culture of British psychoanalysis, 1920-1935
7 October 2009, Lucy Scholes (Birkbeck), Hermine Hug-Hellmuth: Pioneering the childhood (sibling) experience 1913-1924
3 June 2009, Lyndsey Stonebridge (UEA)
'What does death represent to the individual?' Psychoanalysis and Wartime
25 February 2009, Daniel Pick (Birkbeck), Fascism, War and the Superego: The Commissioning of Psychoanalysis in the 1940s
28 January 2009, Michael Rustin (UEL/Tavistock)
Norbert Elias's Contribution to Psychoanalytical History
2008
10 December 2008, Mandy Merck (Royal Holloway) 'Brother Animal's Long Tail: Freud, Tausk and the Research Assessment Exercise'
26 November 2008, Megan Vaughn (Oxford) 'Suicide in Africa'
11 June 2008, Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths) 'Heidegger and Psychoanalysis'
14 May 2008, Janet Sayers (Kent) 'Art and psychoanalysis: Adrian Stokes and history'
20 February 2008, Daniel Grey (Roehampton) 'Fantasy and testimony by child murder defendants in England, 1880-1922'
2007
12 December 2007, Marybeth Hamilton (Birkbeck) 'Alan Lomax, Jelly Roll Morton, and the Dream-time of Jazz'
14 November 2007, Gail Lewis (Open University) 'Birthing Racial Difference: Conversations with my mother and others'
17 October 2007, Luisa Passerini (Turin) 'Emotions between history and psychoanalysis'
13 June 2007, Alex Potts (University of Michigan) 'The Conscious Unconscious: Painting in the Aftermath of the Second World War'
16 May 2007, Felicity Callard (Queen Mary, London) 'From Agoraphobia to Panic Disorder: the psychiatric attack on psychoanalytic models of anxiety'
25 April 2007, Mary Jacobus (CRASSH, Cambridge) 'Touching Things: Psyche and the Inanimate'
21 March 2007, Barbara Caine (University of Monash, Melbourne) 'Biography and History'
7 February 2007, David Reggio (Goldsmiths) 'Wartime France and the Psychiatric Fraternity of Saint-Albain'
2006
22 November 2006, Susannah Radstone (UEL) 'Trauma and its Fascinations'
11 October 2006, Tracey Loughran (University of Manchester) 'Shell shock and the first world war'