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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).

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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) Kartika Ladwal
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 Jacob Johanssen, Lynn Froggett, Lita Crociani-Windland, David Jones
10:30am - 11:00am	Coffee break 1 Location: D121
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 Manali Arora, Mona Jamshidi Nasab, Tom Fielder	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 Clau Di Gianfrancesco Individual Paper Trapped Voices of Iranian Women and the Ongoing Struggle to Unleash Them Maryam Baniasadi Individual Paper The Melancholic Female Body: The Inner Struggle of Objectification in Women Mana Goodarzi Individual Paper Age Against The Machine: Abject Revelation of the Feminine Midlife Crises in The Substance and Babygirl Vivian Chan, Yussef Cole	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.
11:00am - 12:30pm	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 Laura McGrath Individual Paper Crisis and Opportunity: The Death Drive Reformulated Through Aulagnier’s Primal Layer of Experience Marilyn Charles Individual Paper The Unknown Niyamat Narang Individual Paper “not really now not anymore”: Holding a Broken World Together, a Psychosocial Reading of Alan Garner at 90 Madeleine Alice Wood	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 Jim Parris	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 Kirti Devnani Individual Paper The Global Opioid Crisis - Psychosomalgia, Addiction & Relief in Ordinary life Winniey E Maduro
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Location: DV Lounge
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! Bita Riazati Individual Paper Our Brown Bodies Remember: Exploring Racialised Grief and Colonial Hauntings in Times of Violence Tanishka Pillai Individual Paper Borders and Refugees Agnieszka Piotrowska 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. Ana Sofia Hernandez Vega	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 Chair(s): Peter Harris, Roger Willoughby Discussant(s): Linden West, Mike Seal Presentations of the Symposium Home Alone: Neglect, Guilt And Religious Transformation Peter Harris, Roger Willoughby Religious Fundamentalism, Identity And Violence: A Case Study Linden West Conceptualising The Lived Experience of Spirituality In Twelve Step Programmes Mike Seal	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 Jahnavi Dutta Individual Paper Slave Play In The Psychoanalytic Clinic: A Self-theorisation Of Overwhelming Experiences Of Queer, Racialised Erotic Transference Harriet Mossop Individual Paper Rethinking Queer Identity Development Through Social Interaction Siddharth Trigunayat, Vaidehi Chilwarwar 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 Thi Gammon
1:30pm - 3:00pm	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. Donata Puntil, Melissa Dunlop, Emma Macleod-Johnstone, Angeliki Skamvetsaki, Mark Price, Kamen Petrov
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Coffee break 2 Location: D121
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 Nini Kerr 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 Rachel Cohen Individual Paper Bullying and Dynamics of Exclusion in Adolescent Groups: a Symptom of the Social Crisis Tommaso Fratini Individual Paper The Crisis as a Springboard for Subjectivation: Example of Couples and Families in post-Revolutionary Tunisia Meriem Mokdad Zmitri	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 Katrine Weiland Willaa Individual Paper Framing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Through Photography: A Psychosocial Exploration of Young Adults' Perspectives in Indonesia Caron Toshiko Monica Individual Paper Beyond Words: An Autohistoria-Teoría Of A Colombian Dialogue Practitioner On The Spiritual, Affective, And Embodied Dimensions Of Dialogue Juliana Ramírez-Muñoz Individual Paper Psychosocial Methodologies in the Archive: Understanding Historical Crises: a 1930s Case-study. David Jones	Perspectives on Adolescence Location: G3 External Resource for This Session Chair: Maria Mellins Chair: Javeria Anwar Roundtable Adolescence Chair(s): Maria Mellins Presenter(s): Maria Mellins, Neena Samota, Phil Brewer, Zin Derfoufi
3:30pm - 5:00pm	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 Ahammed Fazariya, Anahita Bhandari Individual Paper Why Thou Why Thou shall not love Thy neighbour? Underpinnings of Hatred and Aggression in Urban Slum among children Arjun Kumar Individual Paper Forging Solidarities in Silence: Navigating Racism, Resistance, and Repair in Academia Kartika Ladwal, Rhea Gandhi Individual Paper An Inquiry Into The Polarisation In India: What Are Its Links With Mental Health? Sadaf Basir Vidha	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 Chair(s): Marilyn Charles Discussant(s): Maria Miron Presentations of the Symposium Tales from the Dark Continent: Resurgence of the Romance in the Era of AI Marilyn Charles Booktok Made Me Read It: Is There Such a Thing as a Sexual Relationship in New Romance? Carol Owens Severance: A Capitalistic Tale of Technology Promoting Traumatic Splits and the Healing Power of Office Romance and Unions Vivian Chan
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 Chair(s): Anthony Faramelli Discussant(s): Zihan Wang, Virgina Lazaro, Brett Zehner, Jack Z. Bratich Presentations of the Symposium Grey Guattari: Algorithmic Fascism and the Crisis of Subjectivity Brett Zehner, A.T. Kingsmith Pink-Red Realism Zihan Wang Body Horror Fascism Virgina Lazaro Laughers and Fighters: Fascist Groupuscules and Mediated Fratriarchy Jack Z. Bratich	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? Chair(s): Marilyn Charles Presenter(s): Marilyn Charles, Sheyda Esmaili, Noemi Ford, Candida Yates, Vivian Chan, Hannah Young	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. Heidi Sear Individual Paper The Significance of Digital Worlds in the Context of Adolescence and Migration Susanne Benzel Individual Paper Youths In A Black Hole - The Curious Case Of A Lost Generation Nina Alleyne-Stewart Individual Paper Towards A Socio-politics Of Self-harm: Reading Rage And Resistance Nina Fellows
5:15pm - 6:45pm	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 Elizabeth Frost, David Jones	Transformative Methodologies Location: G1 External Resource for This Session Chair: Lita Crociani-Windland Chair: Yaxin Hu Individual Paper The 4 Years of Intention Sean Bear Houlihan Individual Paper Enacting Sustainable Transitions: Using Fictional Scenarios to Explore Change, Grief and Hope Amy Twigger Holroyd
7:30pm - 8:00pm	Wine reception Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session
8:00pm - 10:00pm	Dinner Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session

Date: Tuesday, 10/June/2025
8:00am - 8:30am	Registration and coffee 2 Location: D121
8:30am - 9:45am	Academia and Pedagogy Location: F6 - Day 2 External Resource for This Session Chair: David Jones Chair: Nahiyan Rashid Individual Paper Navigating the Void: Academic Acceleration, Emptiness, and the Journey Toward Transformation Yingjie Ouyang Individual Paper The Exhaustion of the Argument Culture and a Reclaimed Reading Ethics: A Modest Pedagogical Proposal Paola Bohórquez. Ph.D. Individual Paper Hope in the Neoliberal University of Despair? Birgitta Haga Gripsrud, Ingvil Førland Hellstrand Individual Paper "Eco-anxiety In University Students: Knowledge Is Power" Trudi Macagnino	Affect and Emotion: Between Desire and Despair Location: F5 - Day 2 External Resource for This Session Chair: Thi Gammon Chair: Niyamat Narang Individual Paper Eroticism in the Intersectionality of Gender and Race: Nascent East Asian Female Counsellors’ Erotic Feelings of Working with White Male Clients Yaxin Hu Individual Paper There is (a) Nothing to be Anxious About (or Finding Love in a Hopeless Place) Patrick Fuery Individual Paper Melancholia: Lost and/Or Found Mahima Garg Individual Paper In Searching for the Truth: a Comparison of Negative and Spiritually Sensitive Psychoanalysis Mariann Ita	Media and Technology Location: G3 - Day 2 External Resource for This Session Chair: Jim Parris Chair: Melanie Gomes Individual Paper Saying “No” to Tech Bros Stephen Hughes Individual Paper Fragile Hope: Unraveling the Online Relations Sought by Schizoid Personalities in the Social Media Context." Sheyda Esmaeili Individual Paper #JewGoal and the Online Normalization of Antisemitism: A Lacanian Perspective Jack Black Individual Paper Lost and Remembered: Digital Spaces of Grief and Memorialisation in Animal Crossing:New Horizons Ruth Toba Llewellyn
8:30am - 9:45am	Reflective Space 5 Location: F4 - Day 2 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.	Social Dreaming: In person only Location: Senior Common Room - Day 2 Working session Social Dreaming Lita Crociani-Windland	Violence Location: G1 - Day 2 External Resource for This Session Chair: Elizabeth Frost Chair: Kartika Ladwal Individual Paper The Irish Catholic Maternal: Articulating Embodied Research Practice with Luce Irigaray in Response to the Permanent Polycrisis Marie Theresa Crick Individual Paper Crisis and Acts of Interpersonal violence - Reflection in the Criminal Justice System as an Opportunity for Change. Andrew Shepherd Individual Paper Psychotherapy in Times of Violence: Confronting the Crisis of Relationality Mridula Sridhar
10:00am - 11:30am	Crisis, Solidarity and a Psychoanalysis-to-Come Location: G2 - Day 2 External Resource for This Session Chair: Raluca Soreanu Chair: Jahnavi Dutta Symposium Crisis, Solidarity and a Psychoanalysis-to-Come: Freepsy Symposium Chair(s): Raluca Soreanu Presentations of the Symposium Opportunities in Crisis: The Free Clinics Movement and the Reimagining of Psychoanalytic Practice Lizaveta van Munsteren Crises between Critique and Creativity: A Post-human Feminist Intervention Ana Minozzo Psychoanalytic Ecologies: A Network Exercise for a Psychoanalysis-to-Come Raluca Soreanu, Ana Minozzo, Ana Tomcic, Lizaveta van Munsteren, Julianna Pusztai Solidarity: A Psychoanalytic Stretch Julianna Pusztai War and the Bonds that Hold: Nelly Wolffheim and Edith Gyömrői Ana Tomcic	Environments and Boundaries Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room - Day 2 External Resource for This Session Chair: Rhea Gandhi Chair: Kartika Ladwal Individual Paper The Despair And Hope Of ‘Home’: The Enablement Of A Safe Enough ‘Home’ Space Now And In The Future: Self-sufficiency, Off-grid Green Living, Climate Change and Mars Deborah L. S. Wright Individual Paper The UK and Europe: Crisis as Conversion Disorder Tom Fielder Individual Paper Community Life In A Wounded Neoliberal Chile: Embodied Communitarian Gestures As Healing Tools Florencia Paz Vergara Escobar Individual Paper 'The Dogs of Hell': How Communities Fight Terrorist Narratives Zin Derfoufi	Healthcare Challenges Location: G3 - Day 2 External Resource for This Session Chair: Heidi Sear Chair: Melanie Gomes Individual Paper Such A Shame- Always Too Much, Never Enough Stories Of Shame, Resilience and Performance in Health and Social Care professionals Tilia Lenz, Andrew Morris Individual Paper A Character : The Humanitarian Health Worker Janne Gabrielle Hunsbeth Individual Paper The Secret Self: Collaborative-Autoethnography As Meaning Making Of Embodied MAO Inhibition, And Familial Child Sexual Abuse Trauma. An Exploration Of Female MAO Inhibition, Its Sequalae In Women And What It Can Tell Us About Meaning Making And The ‘Hard Question Of Consciousness’. Elisabetta Louise Faenza Individual Paper Dreams and reflections of a cyborg: Telepresence teaching in Higher Education Sophie Savage
10:00am - 11:30am	Opposing Fascism Location: F4 - Day 2 External Resource for This Session Chair: David Jones Chair: Niyamat Narang Individual Paper Ironic Trolling and Far-Right Phallocentrism: From Small Hands to Little Hans Calum Lister Matheson Individual Paper Falun Gong: A Transnational History of Metamorphosis through Crises Zed Zhipeng Gao Individual Paper Control Fascism: Finance, Precarity, and the Drive to Fascism Anthony Faramelli	Pakaan: For Hope Amidst Chaos Location: G1 - Day 2 External Resource for This Session Chair: Ruth Toba Llewellyn Working session Pakaan: For Hope Amidst Chaos Ufra mir, Nabeela Khan	Unheard Voices / Unthought Known Location: F5 - Day 2 External Resource for This Session Chair: Marilyn Charles Chair: Yaxin Hu Individual Paper Trust, Truth and Authenticity: Bizarre Objects and the Failure to Think Kelli Fuery Individual Paper Voices of the Dying: The Internet and End of Life Why online support communities matter in times of crisis Margaret Doherty, Karen Sanders Individual Paper Voices and Dreams from a Tide Isle: Creating a Psychosocial Soundscape from Portland Bay Candida Yates, Lita Crociani-windland Individual Paper Navigating Coloniality: Unspoken Struggles in Counselling Psychology Training in Hong Kong Isaac Chun-Yeung Yu
11:30am - 12:00pm	Coffee break 2.1 Location: D121
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Plenary - Farhad Dalal Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room - Day 2 External Resource for This Session Chair: Lynn Patricia Froggett Chair: Jahnavi Dutta Roundtable A Meditation on Hope in a Time of Despair Chair(s): Lynn Frogett Presenter(s): Farhad Dalal
1:00pm - 2:00pm	Lunch Day 2 Location: DV Lounge
2:00pm - 3:30pm	Capacity, Incapacity and Subjectivity Location: G1 - Day 2 External Resource for This Session Chair: Anthony Faramelli Chair: Kartika Ladwal Individual Paper Speaking Back to the False Certainty of our Times: Cultivating a Revolutionary Unconscious Michael O'Loughlin Individual Paper Beyond the Pressure Principle: Disorientation, Trained Incapacity, and Psycho-Rhetorical Approaches to Crisis Daniel Adleman Individual Paper The Crisis Of Losing Sight In Mexico: The Social Unconscious Towards People With Blindness Leslie Thompson Individual Paper The Trauma-Crisis Caregiving Model: Understanding Special Needs Parenting as a Chronic Trauma Experience Sara Subhan, Sadia Saleem, En Yi Hew, Yashfi Aariba, Yvonne Tan, Safira Abu Bakar, Yap Wai Meng, Agnes Chong Shu Sze, Michelle Lim	Is There a Canary in the Room, or is it an Elephant? Location: F4 - Day 2 External Resource for This Session Chair: Rembrandt Zegers Chair: Melanie Gomes Working session Is There a Canary in the Room, or is it an Elephant? Rembrandt Zegers	Hope Against Grief and Despair Location: G2 - Day 2 External Resource for This Session Chair: Heidi Sear Chair: Yaxin Hu Individual Paper Breaking Up With My Mother: An Autoethnographic Account of Transference and Estrangement. Jahnavi Dutta Individual Paper Navigating Loss: Supporting Grieving Children In School Settings Anna Lise Gordon Individual Paper Decolonized Trauma, Grief, Hope: Reflections Of A Frontline Practitioner Ufra mir
2:00pm - 3:30pm	Reflective large group: In person only Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room - Day 2 External Resource for This Session Chair: John Adlam Working session Learning or not learning from experience? – “What’s Going On?” John Adlam, Sarita Bose, Chris Scanlon, Martina Mindang	Writing For Publication Location: F6 - Day 2 External Resource for This Session Chair: Isaac Chun-Yeung Yu Working session Writing For Publication Elizabeth Frost, David Jones
3:30pm - 4:00pm	Coffee break 2.2 Location: D121
4:00pm - 5:00pm	Closing plenary and open space Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room - Day 2 External Resource for This Session

Annual Conference of the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS)

9-10 June 2025

St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London, UK

Conference Agenda