Seating is available on a first come first serve basis.
Organized by Prof. Michal Shapira, Tel Aviv University, and cosponsored by the New York Area Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History.
Despite the continuous interest in psychoanalysis as a modern system of thought and interpretation, the history of the discipline and the study of analysts other than Sigmund Freud are still developing. This two-day conference will bring together historians, gender studies scholars, and psychoanalysts to explore the impact of the Second World War on psychoanalysis in the post-1945 era, and of psychoanalysis itself on different postwar societies and cultures. The conference will try to examine the question regarding the special relationship that psychoanalysis had with democracy and with democratization in the postwar period. More broadly, the conference will also reopen the question of how to do the history of psychoanalysis, with what archives, and which methodologies. The event will continue the discussion from a first conference in London (organized by Daniel Pick and Matt Ffytche in 2013) focusing on psychoanalysis in the age of totalitarianism and the Second World War. The London conference generated great interest from scholars across fields, and we will continue this discussion at the Heyman Center, Columbia University, 4-5 April 2014.
Presentations will be 20-minutes arranged in panels, followed by discussion, all in a plenary format
For questions please email [email protected].
April 4, 2014 Friday
8:45am - 9:30am EDT
9:25am - 10:30am EDT
Michal Shapira
Senior Lecturer of History and Gender Studies
Tel Aviv University
Daniel Pick
Professor of History
Birkbeck College, University of London
10:30am - 10:45am EDT
10:45am - 12:45pm EDT
Susan Pedersen
Gouverneur Morris Professor of British History
Columbia University
Dagmar Herzog
Distinguished Professor of History
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Erik Linstrum
Assistant Professor of History
University of Virginia
Camille Robcis
Assistant Professor of History
Cornell University
12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
1:45pm - 3:00pm EDT
Bonnie Smith
Board of Governors Professor of History
Rutgers University
Elizabeth Lunbeck
Nelson Tyrone, Jr Professor of History and Professor of Psychiatry
Vanderbilt University
Peter Mandler
Professor of Modern Cultural History, Bailey College Lecturer in History, Gonville and Caius College
University of Cambridge
3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
3:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
Samuel Moyn
Professor of Law
Harvard University
George Makari
Director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychiatry
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Lewis Aron
Director of Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
New York University
Simon Taylor
PhD Candidate in History
Columbia University
April 5, 2014 Saturday
9:00am - 9:30am EDT
9:30am - 11:00am EDT
Moshe Sluhovsky
Vigevani Professor of European Studies
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Elizabeth Danto
Professor of Social Work
Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
John Forrester
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
Ben Kafka
Associate Professor of Media Theory and History
New York University
11:15am - 11:30am EDT
11:30am - 1:00pm EDT
Katja Guenther
Assistant Professor of History
Princeton University
Carol Seigel
Director
Freud Museum, London
Rubén Gallo
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures
Princeton University
1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
2:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
Guy Ortolano
Associate Professor of History
New York University
David Russell
Fellow and Tutor, Associate Professor of English
Corpus Christi College Oxford
Matt ffytche
Deputy Director of the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies
University of Essex
Nellie Thompson
Historian and Curator
New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Helene Keable
Training and Supervising Analyst
New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
3:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
4:15pm - 5:15pm EDT
Eli Zaretsky
Professor of History
The New School
Daniel Pick
Professor of History
Birkbeck College, University of London
Robert Jay Lifton
Lecturer in Psychiatry
Columbia University
Michal Shapira
Senior Lecturer of History and Gender Studies
Tel Aviv University