Annual Conference of the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS)
9-10 June 2025
St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London, UK
Conference Agenda
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 1st July 2025, 06:29:36pm BST
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Session Overview |
| Date: Monday, 09/June/2025 | |||
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Registration and coffee Location: D121 |
Art Installation: Open throughout the conference Location: D121 Individual Paper Developing a Decolonial Eye: Paying Attention to the Silence(d) |
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| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Opening plenary Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session Chair: Jacob Johanssen Chair: Ruth Toba Llewellyn Working session Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity |
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| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Coffee break 1 Location: D121 |
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| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
Cultural Objects as Transitional: Navigating Hope and Despair Location: G2 External Resource for This Session Chair: Thi Gammon Chair: Kartika Ladwal Working session Cultural Objects as Transitional: Navigating Hope and Despair |
Oppression and Gender Location: F5 External Resource for This Session Chair: Candida Yates Chair: Jahnavi Dutta Individual Paper Crisis and Opportunity: The role of Theatre of the Oppressed in reimagining Gender Individual Paper Trapped Voices of Iranian Women and the Ongoing Struggle to Unleash Them Individual Paper The Melancholic Female Body: The Inner Struggle of Objectification in Women Individual Paper Age Against The Machine: Abject Revelation of the Feminine Midlife Crises in The Substance and Babygirl |
Reflective Space 1 Location: F4 External Resource for This Session Throughout the conference, room F4 will serve as a reflective space. Its purpose is for attendees to come together whenever they wish to reflect on, associate with, speak about or otherwise freely engage with the conference themes. There are no chairs, panels or time limits in the reflective space. It can be made into whatever those in the room at any given time wish to create. Alongside the reflective space, there will also be some flipcharts on which attendees can write down ideas, share information about research, calls for papers, or other opportunities. |
| Symbolization and Meaning-Making Location: Senior Common Room External Resource for This Session Chair: Rhea Gandhi Chair: Isaac Chun-Yeung Yu Individual Paper Intimate Revolutions: The Relationship Between Spatial Form and Personal Change in the COVID-19 Pandemic Individual Paper Crisis and Opportunity: The Death Drive Reformulated Through Aulagnier’s Primal Layer of Experience Individual Paper The Unknown Individual Paper “not really now not anymore”: Holding a Broken World Together, a Psychosocial Reading of Alan Garner at 90 |
The Divination Palace Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session Working session The Divination Palace: The role of chance in daily life and ritual |
Trauma Location: F6 External Resource for This Session Chair: David Jones Chair: Javeria Anwar Individual Paper Fostering Resilience After Trauma: Interventions for Survivors of Child Labour Trafficking In India Individual Paper The Global Opioid Crisis - Psychosomalgia, Addiction & Relief in Ordinary life |
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| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch Location: DV Lounge |
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| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Immigration / Emigration Location: G1 External Resource for This Session Chair: Jim Parris Chair: Nahiyan Rashid Individual Paper It is Téhéran NOT Tehran! Individual Paper Our Brown Bodies Remember: Exploring Racialised Grief and Colonial Hauntings in Times of Violence Individual Paper Borders and Refugees Individual Paper The Architecture of Illusions: The Shadow Play of Power Mechanics and the Legacy of Control in descendants of the National Socialist Party of the Third Reich. |
Pathways of Despair and Hope: Pathways of Despair and Hope: Religious Belief, Identity And Crisis Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session Chair: Peter Harris Chair: Melanie Gomes Symposium Religious Belief, Identity And Crisis: Pathways Between Despair and Hope Presentations of the Symposium Home Alone: Neglect, Guilt And Religious Transformation Religious Fundamentalism, Identity And Violence: A Case Study Conceptualising The Lived Experience of Spirituality In Twelve Step Programmes |
Queer Studies Location: G2 External Resource for This Session Chair: Rhea Gandhi Chair: Ruth Toba Llewellyn Individual Paper “We’re Just Friends”: An Autoethnographic Inquiry Of Queer Love, Kinship And Communities Individual Paper Slave Play In The Psychoanalytic Clinic: A Self-theorisation Of Overwhelming Experiences Of Queer, Racialised Erotic Transference Individual Paper Rethinking Queer Identity Development Through Social Interaction Individual Paper Why is it so Hard to Talk About Same-sex Experience? -– Exploring Veiled Silence in a Research Relationship Through Reflexive and Autoethnographic Lens |
| Reflective Space 2 Location: F4 External Resource for This Session Throughout the conference, room F4 will serve as a reflective space. Its purpose is for attendees to come together whenever they wish to reflect on, associate with, speak about or otherwise freely engage with the conference themes. There are no chairs, panels or time limits in the reflective space. It can be made into whatever those in the room at any given time wish to create. Alongside the reflective space, there will also be some flipcharts on which attendees can write down ideas, share information about research, calls for papers, or other opportunities. |
The Dream Society Location: G3 External Resource for This Session Chair: Isaac Chun-Yeung Yu Working session The Dream Society: Collaboratively writing as a space for possibilities. |
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| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
Coffee break 2 Location: D121 |
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| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
Collectives and Objects Location: G1 External Resource for This Session Chair: Lita Crociani-Windland Chair: Jahnavi Dutta Individual Paper Culture as the Bad Object: A Clinical Illustration Individual Paper Acting on Emotion(s)? Motivating the Public to Respond to Policy Calls for Change Amidst the UK’s Health and Social Care Crisis Individual Paper Bullying and Dynamics of Exclusion in Adolescent Groups: a Symptom of the Social Crisis Individual Paper The Crisis as a Springboard for Subjectivation: Example of Couples and Families in post-Revolutionary Tunisia |
Methodologies Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session Chair: Anthony Faramelli Chair: Niyamat Narang Individual Paper Claustrophobic Field Notes as a Psychosocial Method for Researching Affect and the Unconscious Individual Paper Framing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Through Photography: A Psychosocial Exploration of Young Adults' Perspectives in Indonesia Individual Paper Beyond Words: An Autohistoria-Teoría Of A Colombian Dialogue Practitioner On The Spiritual, Affective, And Embodied Dimensions Of Dialogue Individual Paper Psychosocial Methodologies in the Archive: Understanding Historical Crises: a 1930s Case-study. |
Perspectives on Adolescence Location: G3 External Resource for This Session Chair: Maria Mellins Chair: Javeria Anwar Roundtable Adolescence |
| Racism and Dynamics of Exclusion Location: G2 External Resource for This Session Chair: Jim Parris Chair: Yaxin Hu Individual Paper The Burden of Resilience: Navigating Institutional Marginality as a Muslim Student in Indian Academia Individual Paper Why Thou Why Thou shall not love Thy neighbour? Underpinnings of Hatred and Aggression in Urban Slum among children Individual Paper Forging Solidarities in Silence: Navigating Racism, Resistance, and Repair in Academia Individual Paper An Inquiry Into The Polarisation In India: What Are Its Links With Mental Health? |
Reflective Space 3 Location: F6 External Resource for This Session Throughout the conference, room F4 will serve as a reflective space. Its purpose is for attendees to come together whenever they wish to reflect on, associate with, speak about or otherwise freely engage with the conference themes. There are no chairs, panels or time limits in the reflective space. It can be made into whatever those in the room at any given time wish to create. Alongside the reflective space, there will also be some flipcharts on which attendees can write down ideas, share information about research, calls for papers, or other opportunities. |
Severed Selves: Romance in the Gothic and Digital Ages Location: F5 External Resource for This Session Chair: Marilyn Charles Chair: Ruth Toba Llewellyn Symposium Severed Selves: Romance in the Gothic and Digital Ages Presentations of the Symposium Tales from the Dark Continent: Resurgence of the Romance in the Era of AI Booktok Made Me Read It: Is There Such a Thing as a Sexual Relationship in New Romance? Severance: A Capitalistic Tale of Technology Promoting Traumatic Splits and the Healing Power of Office Romance and Unions |
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| 5:15pm - 6:45pm |
Digital Media, Authoritarian Subjectivity and the Drive to Destruction Location: F6 External Resource for This Session Chair: Anthony Faramelli Chair: Isaac Chun-Yeung Yu Symposium Digital Media, Authoritarian Subjectivity and the Drive to Destruction Presentations of the Symposium Grey Guattari: Algorithmic Fascism and the Crisis of Subjectivity Pink-Red Realism Body Horror Fascism Laughers and Fighters: Fascist Groupuscules and Mediated Fratriarchy |
Women in Leadership: Oxymoron or Redemption? Location: G3 External Resource for This Session Chair: Marilyn Charles Chair: Nahiyan Rashid Roundtable Women in Leadership: Oxymoron or Redemption? |
Adolescence Location: F5 External Resource for This Session Chair: Heidi Sear Chair: Niyamat Narang Individual Paper The Talisman Effect: A Puzzle for the ‘Snowflake Generation’ in Finding a Sense of Self and a Space to Belong. Individual Paper The Significance of Digital Worlds in the Context of Adolescence and Migration Individual Paper Youths In A Black Hole - The Curious Case Of A Lost Generation Individual Paper Towards A Socio-politics Of Self-harm: Reading Rage And Resistance |
| Reflective Space 4 Location: F4 External Resource for This Session Throughout the conference, room F4 will serve as a reflective space. Its purpose is for attendees to come together whenever they wish to reflect on, associate with, speak about or otherwise freely engage with the conference themes. There are no chairs, panels or time limits in the reflective space. It can be made into whatever those in the room at any given time wish to create. Alongside the reflective space, there will also be some flipcharts on which attendees can write down ideas, share information about research, calls for papers, or other opportunities. |
Reviewing for Publication Location: G2 External Resource for This Session Chair: Javeria Anwar Working session Reviewing For Publication |
Transformative Methodologies Location: G1 External Resource for This Session Chair: Lita Crociani-Windland Chair: Yaxin Hu Individual Paper The 4 Years of Intention Individual Paper Enacting Sustainable Transitions: Using Fictional Scenarios to Explore Change, Grief and Hope |
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| 7:30pm - 8:00pm |
Wine reception Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session |
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| 8:00pm - 10:00pm |
Dinner Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session |
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