UPCOMING EVENTS

A Return to Freud? New Histories of Psychoanalysis

March 20-21, UC Berkeley.

Note: This event is in-person AND live streamed, and registration is required.

Co-organized by Hannah Zeavin & Ramsey McGlazer

Full program forthcoming

Space is limited. Free for all to attend. Click the link to register for the livestream. In-person is sold out.

Register here.

Location: Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California

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What might the study of psychoanalysis in and for the twenty-first century look like? In our symposium, we will aim to answer this question. Gathering on the centennial of the publication of Freud’s own “autobiographical” study, forty scholars, artists, and clinicians will take up the idea of a “return to Freud” by addressing psychoanalysis now—and taking its legacies seriously.

This three-day symposium brings together a diverse, interdisciplinary body of scholars engaged in the project of renewing psychoanalysis for the twenty-first century, drawing on its neglected twentieth-century archives.

Because this return to Freud is not merely an academic concern, we invite members of the public to join us, and to engage with academics, clinicians, and artists who have made Freud central to their work. To that end, the conference will feature panels, roundtables, public-facing conversations, and an evening film program. The event will culminate in a day of closed-door discussion for our speakers on issues facing the field, past and present. 

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A RETURN TO FREUD? PROGRAM

DAY ONE

Thursday March 20

Maude Fife, Wheeler Hall 

Check-in at 9:00am for guests & speakers

Opening remarks Hannah Zeavin & Ramsey McGlazer @ 930am

1st panel: 10:00 - 1145am

Must We Look to Vienna?

Samiha Khalil, “Moses, the Alien”

George Makari, “How Viennese Is It?: On Discursive Communities and the Origins of  Psychoanalysis”

Elizabeth Ann Danto, “‘A Better Path’: Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, and Community Psychoanalysis”

Matt ffytche, “Resistance, Armor, Defence: The Psychoanalytic War on Character”

Moderator: Ben Kafka 

2nd panel 11:45am-130pm

Psychoanalysis at the Center of the World

Omnia El Shakry, “Psychoanalysis and its Limits”

 Noor Asif, “Masud Khan and the Use of Hate”

 Laila Riazi, “Lose your Father: Mass Hysteries of the Young Girl” 

 Hannah Proctor, “‘Adaptation to society is the last thing they have in mind’: Psychoanalysis, Youth Revolt, and the 1968 Columbia University Occupations” 

Moderator: Stefania Pandolfo

3rd Panel 3:00 - 4:45pm

Colonial Psychoanalysis

Howard Chiang, “X-Rays of the Mind: Projective Tests, Geopolitics, and the Cultural Laboratory of the Sinophone Pacific”

Akshi Singh, “Unconscious Terrorists: Colonialism, Violence, Insanity”

Kevin Duong, “The Surrealist War Against Race War at UNESCO”

Amy Wong, “‘Don't Say Catharsis’: Quiescence in Asian America” 

Moderator: M. Ty

 Film Screening: 5:00 - 6:30pm

A Child’s Drawing, Autistic Cartographies, and Asylum

Film presentation of Fernand Deligny’s Ce gamin, là (1975) and J'ai huit ans (1961), by Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff, René Vautier, and Yann Le Masson’s (with Frantz Fanon)

Introduction: Perwana Nazif

Moderator: Hannah Zeavin

DAY TWO

Friday March 21 

Maude Fife

Check-in at 9:00am for guests & speakers

4th panel: 915-10:45am

Augmented Psychoanalysis 

Candela Potente, “On the Translatability of Psychoanalysis: Marie Langer” 

Elizabeth Lunbeck, “Freudbot: ‘Your Own Sigmund Freud’”

Poulomi Saha, “Mother Mother Mother: On Fleeing into Devotion, By Way of Analysis" 

Jonathan Sadowsky, "Inner Visions: Psychoanalysis, Psychedelics, and the Meanings of Medicine"

Moderator: Mitchell Wilson 

5th Panel 11-12:45pm:

Fanon Wars 

Jared Sexton, Freud’s Pessimism (And Mine, I Mean Yours, I Mean Ours)

Nica Siegel, “Confession, Retraction, Feeling Bound: Fanon in Colonial Court”

Gavin Arnall, “Fanon’s Militant Psychiatry”

Moderator: Tobias Warner

6th panel 2-3345pm

Symptomatic Reading Now

Patricia Gherovici, "Why War (on Gender)?"

Elizabeth Wilson, “Notes on Feminism and Mentalization”

Michelle Rada, “Ironizing the Symptom”

Carolyn Laubender, “Auto-Theory, Auto-Analysis: Freud, Gender, and the Plural Self” 

Moderator: Lily Scherlis

7th panel 345-530pm

To Cure Psychiatry

Patricia Ekpo, “Blackness: An Ordinary Psychosis”

Mariano Ben Plotkin, “Psychoanalysis and Subjectivity in the 21st Century: Challenges from the South”

Joana Masó, “A Doctoral Sleeping Beauty: Lacan’s Tosquelles”

Francisco González, “Life in Common — Or, Psychoanalysis and its Discontents”

Moderator:  Ramsey McGlazer

Closing remarks

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Confirmed speakers include:

Gavin Arnall, Noor Asif, Howard Chiang, Elizabeth Ann Danto, Kevin Duong, Patricia Gherovici, Patricia Ekpo, Matt ffytche, Francisco González, Ben Kafka, Samiha Khalil, Carolyn Laubender, Karima Lazali, Elizabeth Lunbeck, George Makari, Joana Masó, Ramsey McGlazer, Perwana Nazif, Danny Nobus, Stefania Pandolfo, Candela Potente, Mariano Ben Plotkin, Hannah Proctor, Michelle Rada, Laila Riazi, Camille Robcis, Jonathan Sadowsky, Poulomi Saha, Jared Sexton, Omnia El Shakry, Nica Siegel, Akshi Singh, M. Ty, Elizabeth Wilson, Amy Wong, & Hannah Zeavin.

Hosted by the University of California, Berkeley and the Psychosocial Foundation. Made possible by generous support from the Berkeley Center for New Media; the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry; the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; the Center for Middle Eastern Studies; the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society; the Departments of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Film and Media, German, History, Italian Studies, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Rhetoric, and Spanish and Portuguese; the Program in Critical Theory; the Social Sciences Division; and the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley.