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Created: January 30, 2002
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Psychoanalysis, Anthropology & Cultural Studies--Call for Papers

On Wednesday, January 30, 2002, Richard Koenigsberg posted to psych-method list:

Subject: [psycho-method] Psychoanalysis, Anthropology & Cultural Studies--Call for Papers

Dear Colleagues,

This looks like a very exciting conference on psychoanalysis, anthropology and cultural studies.

Several spots for paper presentations are still available.

Please E-mail your abstract to Marshall Alcorn ASAP.

With regards,

Richard Koenigsberg Call for Papers: 8th Annual Human Sciences Conference
Understanding Subjectivity in Culture: Psychoanalysis/Ethnography/Cultural Studies
Saturday, April 13-Sunday, April 14, 2002
George Washington University, Washington, D. C.

Hosted by the George Washington University Graduate Program in the Human Sciences in association with the Washington Psychoanalytic Society and the GWU Institute for Ethnographic Research

Please send 250 word abstracts, with your name, affiliation, and contact information by February 15, 2002 to:

Psychoanalysis & Ethnography Conference Program in the Human Sciences
George Washington University
2035 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052

Please send E-mail submissions or further inquiries to Marshall Alcorn, Ph. D. at: alcornma@gwu.edu

How do the theories and practices of psychoanalysis, ethnography, and cultural analysis challenge, contest, and/or complement one other? How might the intersection of these fields contribute to an analysis of pressing political and cultural issues, in both the U.S. and internationally? These questions will be the focus of GW's 8th Annual Human Sciences Conference, to be held April 13-14, 2002 in Washington, DC.

In an effort to address the multiple points of intersection of these perspectives, the conference will be organized around three overlapping themes: (1) Theories and methods of psychoanalysis and ethnography: How do the theories and methods of each discipline speak to, strengthen, and confront one another? (2) The role of cultural analysis in psychoanalysis and ethnography: How does cultural analysis reflect and contribute to a fruitful merger of psychoanalysis and ethnography? (3) Politics and policy: What are the practical implications of this interdisciplinary conversation for community activism and policy and public health issues, such as HIV/AIDS education and transgender health?

Plenary Speakers include:

• Vincent Crapanzano, Distinguished Professor Anthropology, CUNY
• John Kafka, Training Analyst Washington Psychoanalytic Society
• Bobby Paul, Dean Liberal Arts, Emory University,
• Elizabeth Young-Bruehl, Analyst/Scholar, New York City
• Paul Verhaeghe, Analyst/Scholar, University Ghent

  We welcome papers and panels from both established and emerging scholars in anthropology and psychoanalytic studies, as well as from (inter) disciplines such as: African/Asian/American Studies, Literary and Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, Political Science, Queer Theory/Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies, Sociology, and Women's Studies.

  We also invite papers or workshops that address the implications of this nexus for public policy, public health, education, or clinical work.

  We welcome proposals for workshops, video presentations, or other non-traditional formats. Graduate student submissions are encouraged.

  In addition to topics noted above, panel or paper proposals might address:

  • National fantasies
  • Ideologies of race, nation and gender
  • Diasporas, globalization and cultural imperialisms
  • Narrative and narratology
  • Rituals, dreams and myths
  • Mourning
  • Trauma: ritual and ritualizing trauma, repetition and writing
  • Misrecognition, meconnaissance, and (counter) transference
  • The "real" in field work
  • Scenes of the clinic, scenes of the field
  • Languages, native fluencies and (m) other tongues
  • Translation--across cultures, languages, theories, methodologies
  • Problems of interpretation
  • Otherness and authority
  • Science, technology and subjectivity
  • Situated knowledges and privileges of observation
  • The ethnographic unconscious
  • Identification and desire in the field or the clinic
  • Ethics and politics of the case study
  • Oral histories and analytic dialogue
  • Welfare policy
  • Ethnography or psychoanalysis in the classroom
  • Ethnography as therapeutic practice

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