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CALENDER FOR 2023:
Clinics and their Worlds
NOTE: This panel has been moved from APSA in solidarity with striking workers in Los Angeles. At check out, you will have the option to donate to the UNITE HERE Local 11 strike fund.
September 02, 2023
3pm EST / 12pm PST / 8pm London
Join The Psychosocial Foundation & Parapraxis for papers on clinics and their worlds.
"The clinic" is a political site because it concerns organized human suffering and its amelioration. With and against this basic insight, the clinic is also a crucial site of political theorizing because the tools of these transformations are themselves laced through with questions of hierarchy and identity. As Michel Foucault has argued, judgments about what it means to be "cured" demand political judgments: what is normal? what does it mean to thrive in a world with others? under what conditions does refusal to thrive indict the social world and not only the patient? What are the relations between sites of revolt and sites of self-making? How does the spatial imaginary of transformation change once we imagine intimacy and refusal to be co-constitutive? In this panel, alongside more manifestly clinical works, we will consider the life of this tension on a number of other sites including the workplace, the prison, the revolutionary assembly, the factory floor, the neighborhood, and the home, considering their relational logic and well as their material structure.
LIST OF PAPERS:
Kevin Duong: "Psychiatry for Internal Colonialism: the Lafargue Clinic in Harlem, 1946-1958"
Hannah Zeavin: "Deprivation: The Origins of Attachment Theory in the Prison Clinic."
Nica Siegel: "Desiring Politics: Herbert Marcuse, Maladjustment and the End of History Thesis."
Begüm Adalet: "An Insurgent Mood: Politics of the Home in Lorraine Hansberry’s Writings"
Moderator: Benjamin McKean
Discussant: Alexia Alkadi-Barbaro
Tickets available here.
Past Events
Parapraxis in Conversation:
Keyword: “The Psychosocial”
Saturday May 21, 2022
10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm London
“The Psychosocial” with Professors Stephen Frosh, Rosaura Martinez, & Samo Tomšič. Moderated by Alex Colston.
Watch here.
Parapraxis in Conversation: Keyword: “The Maternal”
July 9, 2022
10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm London
Join The Psychosocial Foundation x Parapraxis for a conversation on “The Maternal,” with Professors Joy James, Sarah Knott, and Lisa Baraitser. Moderated by Hannah Zeavin.
This event was not recorded.
Release Celebration for EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE, by M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi with Lara Sheehi
September 4, 2022
12 PST / 3pm EST / 9pm London
Parapraxis in Conversation: Keyword: “Melancholy”
September 17, 2022
10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm London
Release Celebration for PSYCHOANALYSIS IN A PLAGUE YEAR by Donald Moss
October 8th, 2022
10am PST/ 1pm EST/ 6pm London / 7pm Italy
Psychoanalysis and the Chinese Diaspora
October 30th, 2022
10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm London
Parapraxis in Conversation: Keyword: “Clinic”
November 12, 2022
10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm London
Release Celebration and Roundtable for FEMININE SINGULARITY by Ronjaunee Chatterjee
December 4, 2022
10am PST/ 1pm EST/ 6pm London / 7pm Italy
Critical Roundtable on THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE
January 28, 2023
4pm EST / 1pm PST / 9pm London
A Roundtable on LOVE
March 18, 2023
4pm EST / 1pm PST / 9pm London
Join The Psychosocial Foundation x Parapraxis for a celebration of EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE, with co-authors M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi and discussant Dr. Lara Sheehi. Book available here.
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Join The Psychosocial Foundation x Parapraxis for a conversation on “Melancholy,” with Professors Anne Cheng, Ranjana Khanna, and David Eng. Moderated by Jane Hu.
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Join The Psychosocial Foundation x Parapraxis for a release celebration of PSYCHOANALYSIS IN A PLAGUE YEAR by Donald Moss, with T.J. Clark, Giuseppe Civitarese, and others. Book available here.
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Join The Psychosocial Foundation x Parapraxis for “Psychoanalysis and the Chinese Diaspora,” a formal roundtable with Professors Nan Z. Da, Amy Wong, Dora Zhang, Howard H. Chiang and Jane Hu.
Join The Psychosocial Foundation x Parapraxis for a conversation on “Clinic” with Dr. Francisco Gonzalez and Professors Ankhi Mukherjee and Camille Robcis. Moderated by Noor Asif.
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A celebration of FEMININE SINGULARITY by Ronjaunee Chatterjee, with Grace Lavery, Michelle Rada, and Rithika Ramamurthy. Book available here.
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Join The Psychosocial Foundation & Parapraxis for a Critical Roundtable on THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE with Pato Hebert, Carlin Wing, Sumitra Rajkumar, and Angelica Clayton.
Recording available here.
Join The Psychosocial Foundation & Parapraxis for a roundtable on Love, featuring Merve Emre, Anahid Nersessian, and Ronjaunee Chatterjee, moderated by Hannah Zeavin.
Recording available here.