Our thanks to all participants for making this tremendous program possible.
Please Note: No registration is needed for the conference. Simply join us!
Locations:
William Doo Auditorium: 45 Willcocks
WI (Wilson Hall): 40 Willcocks
WE (Wetmore Hall): Down the path next to 20 Willcocks
Schedule: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3
Day 1: Friday Sept 20
10: Coffee Service / Light Breakfast
10:30-11:30: Plenary – William Doo Auditorium
Deborah Britzman, “An unexpected novelty”: Reading Freud’s technique papers with the arrival of pedagogy.
11:45-1:30: Session 1
Panel 1: Transsexualities – William Doo Auditorium
Chair: Chloe Brushwood-Rose
- Trish Salah, The Return to Schreber? Autogynophilic Phantasy and Transgender Theory in Freud, Bailey and Binnie
- Oren Gozlen, From Freud’s Theory of Polymorphous Sexuality to Transsexuality: Psychoanalysis Today
- Patricia Elliot, Lacanian Analysis and Transsexuality: Take 2
- Sheila Cavanagh, Transsexualist Jouissance
Panel 2: Freud and The Drive – Wilson Hall Rm. 2053
Chair: Sara Matthews
- Macy Todd, A Discourse of Need: Freud and the Contemporary Situation of Famine
- Kurt Newman, The Dark Satanic Treadmill: Death Drive, Productivism and the Capitalist Unconscious
- Randall Terada, Politics of the Death Drive, Ethics of the Real
1:40 – 2:30: Lunch on your own
2:30-3:30: Plenary – William Doo Auditorium
Allan Pero, A Colophon of Night: Analysis and Its Insistences
3:30 – 3:45: Break
3:45-5:15: Session 2
Panel 3: Hysteria, Gender and The Father – Wilson Hall Rm. 2053
Chair: Jen Gilbert
- Kathryn Simpson, The Freudian Legacy: Male Hysteria
- Megha Sehdev, Fantasy and Technicality: The Intercutting of Gendered Genres in Freud’s Dora and in Indian Domestic Violence Law
- Gozde Kilic, Where the Father is All Too Alive: Reflexivity, Detraditionalization, and the Paternal Crisis in Freud’s Case Histories
Panel 4: The Figure of the Child – Wetmore Hall Rm. 54E
Chair: Hannah Dyer
- Lisa Farley and Aparna Mishra-Tarc, Drawing Trauma: The Visual Vocabulary of War
- Charles Wells, Kid Logic and Little Big Others: The Image of the Innocent Child
5:30-6:30: Plenary – William Doo Auditorium
Clive Thomson, The Speaking Body, Jouissance, and savoir parlé in Lacan’s Seminar XX (Encore)
6:30 – 8: Catered Wine Reception: William Doo Atrium
Day 2: Saturday Sept 21
8:30: Coffee Service
9-10: Plenary – William Doo Auditorium
Clint Burnham, Does the Internet have an Unconscious?
10:15-11:45: Session 1
Panel 5: Psychoanalysis and Education – Wilson Hall Rm. 2053
Chair: Sara Matthews
- Karyn Sandlos, On the Emotional Situation of Making an Educational Film
- David Lewkowich, Catachresis: The Question of Forgetting in Teacher Education
- Tamara Bibby, Orange Peel and Chocolates: Hatred and Gratitude in Learning From/While Teaching
Panel 6: Historical Interpretations – Wilson Hall Rm. 2008
Chair: James Penney
- Lucas Richert and Adam Montgomery, Osmond’s Interview: Schizophrenia, Sixties Psychiatry and the Jungian Typology
- Lana Lin, Lost Objects: Bergasse 19 and Absence in the Space of Psychoanalysis
- Michelle Duncan, Freud Contra Wagner
11:45 – 1: Lunch on your own
1-2: Plenary – William Doo Auditorium
Jeanne Randolph, MUDDLING FREUD: psychoanalysis and creativity
2:15-3:45: Session 2
Panel 7: Free Associations: Wastelands, Brainstorms and Trophies of War – Wilson Hall Rm. 2008
Chair: Sara Matthews
- RM Kennedy, Freud’s Ecological Unconscious: Learning from Discarded Content
- H. James Garrett, Free Association, Brainstorming and the Pedagogical Situation
- Sara Matthews, “The Trophies of Their Wars”: Free Association as Cultural Analysis
Panel 8: Rethinking Freud through Literature – Wilson Hall Rm. 2053
Chair: James Penney
- Adina Balint-Babos, “L’experience de l’affect”, Freud et la litterature (WG Sebald and Annie Ernaux)
- Christien Garcia, What is Silence?” A Reading of Jane Austen’s Persuasion
- Iulian Toma, Presences de Freud dans les essais de pascal Quignard
3:45 – 4: Break
4-5: Plenary – William Doo Auditorium
Eric Cazdyn, The Worldly Clinic
5-5:15: Break
5:15-6:45: Session 3
Panel 9: Psychoanalysis and the Embodied Subject – Wilson Hall Rm. 2008
Chair: Dina Georgis
- Eleanor MacDonald, Property Guise: Anti-Indigenous Racism and Disavowals of Desire
- Yeung Cheuk Fung Wayne, Politicizing the psyche: Kinships in Freud, Engels and beyond
- Charmaine Eddy, Freud’s Legacy to Race: A Symptomatology of Skin
Panel 10: Practice of the Letter and Petit a – Wilson Hall Rm. 2053
Chair: James Penney
- Victoria I. Burke, Hermes, God of Recognition: Hegel with Lacan
- Julia Huggins, The Love of Small Differences: Narcissism in Mildred Pearce
6:45: Enjoy a night on your own in Toronto!
Day 3: Sunday Sept 22
8:30: Coffee Service
9-10: Plenary – William Doo Auditorium
Mari Ruti, When Forgiveness Is Not an Option: Arguing with Judith Butler
10:15-11:45: Session 1
Panel 11: Philosophical Discussions – Wilson Hall Rm. 2053
Chair: Sara Matthews
- Ryan Artrip, The Politics of Psychoanalysis after Postmodernism: Repression, Power and Imagination
- Bradley Murray, Enjoying our Discontent: Pleasure and the Sublime in Freud and Kant
Panel 12: Psychoanalysis and The Question of Symbolization – William Doo Auditorium
Chair: Dina Georgis
- Eilon Shomron-Atar, Psychoanalysis Without Metaphors
- Dina Georgis, Psychoanalytic Knowledge and the Aesthetic Archive
- Hannah Dyer and David K. Seitz, The Dead Stay in our hearts because we love them – aesthetic reparation in monsieur lazhar
11:45 – 1: Lunch on your own. Working lunch for Board Meeting.
1-2: Plenary – William Doo Auditorium
Judith Hamilton, Lacan in Practice
2:15-3:45: Session 2
Panel 13: Queer Sexualities – Wilson Hall Rm. 2053
Chair: Dina Georgis
- Jen Gilbert, The Defended Subject: Sexuality and The Limits of Research
- Angela Facundo, The Paranoid Imperative and Queer Reparative: Psychoanalysis and Timothy Findley’s The Wars
- Tyler Carson, Psychoanalysis and Queer Negativity
Panel 14: Love and Lovers – Wetmore Hall Rm. 54G
Chair: Sara Matthews
- Christine Evans, Drive as Sublime Object
- Ricky Varghese, Toward a Theory of Revolutionary Love in Psychoanalysis
- Martin Zeilinger, “Dreamlo-lo-lover where are you-u-u” Sampling as Analysis, Sampling as Symptom
3:40 – 4: Break
4-5:15: Closing Remarks & Plenary – William Doo Auditorium
James Penney, Antisocial or Immortal? On the Death Drive in Queer Theory
