Dear friends and colleagues,
the 5th International Analysis and Activism Conference will take place at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law (Poljanski nasip 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia) between September 1st and 3rd, 2023.
Our hope is to meet as many of you as possible, therefore we hope you will decide to participate live and to book your ticket as soon the event is bookable online.
We are working to keep the registration fee as inexpensive as possible. As you may remember, this conference is organised pro-bono by the programme and organising comittee and the registration fee is used to pay all the costs (location, catering, event production, design materials, web, ticketing platform, etc).
TICKETING AND PRICE:
We are offering three price categories.
- Full price 250 € (225 € when purchased before May 31st 2023)
- Students and Training candidates 125 € (100€ when purchased before May 31st 2023)
- Scholarships are available to those whose countries are at war and not otherwise able to pay the fee. Please write us a short email at info@analysisandactivism.com, addressing your interest to participate.
With warm regards,
Programme and Organizing Committee:
Stefano Carpani, Monica Luci, Manca Švara, Alex Sierck, Tine Papič
Online tickets will be on sale on June 15th 2023.
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In case of events beyond our control (such as forecasted or actual storms, earthquakes, floods, war,
threats or acts of terrorism, outbreaks of disease, or travel advice issued by any government agency or the
World Health Organization relating to Ljubljana/Slovenia, it may be impossible to hold the conference in-person as
planned), the conference will in that case be entirely streamed virtually and will not be cancelled. For any other questions about ticketing please write to ticketsupport@analysisandactivism.org.
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How to travel to Ljubljana:
For those traveling from afar, Ljubljana is easily accessible from several nearby airports. Ljubljana Airport (LJU) is the closest airport to the city, located just 25 minutes from the conference venue. Other nearby airports include Trieste Airport (TRS), Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE), Zagreb Airport (ZAG), Graz Airport (GRZ), and Vienna International Airport (VIE).
If you choose to fly into Ljubljana Airport, you can take a taxi or use the GoOpti shuttle service to get to the city center. The taxi stand is located just outside the arrivals hall, and a ride to the city center should cost around €30. Alternatively, GoOpti offers transfers from Ljubljana Airport to the city center with prices starting from €9. Their website is www.goopti.com and their phone number is +386 40 200 200.
For those arriving at Trieste Airport, you can take a taxi or the GoOpti shuttle service to Ljubljana. GoOpti offers transfers from Trieste Airport to Ljubljana with prices starting from €25. For taxi options, you can contact Taxi Alabarda (+39 040 307 700, www.taxialabarda.it) or Taxi Trieste (+39 040 307 730, www.taxitrieste.com).
If you are flying into Venice Marco Polo Airport, you can take a taxi or the GoOpti shuttle service to Ljubljana. GoOpti offers transfers from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Ljubljana with prices starting from €39. For taxi options, you can contact Radio Taxi Venezia (+39 041 5964, www.radiotaxivenezia.it) or Taxi Venice (+39 041 59 64, www.taxivenice.com).
For those arriving at Zagreb Airport, you can take a taxi or the GoOpti shuttle service to Ljubljana. GoOpti offers transfers from Zagreb Airport to Ljubljana with prices starting from €19. For taxi options, you can contact Radio Taxi Zagreb (+385 1 1717, www.radio-taxi.hr) or Eko Taxi Zagreb (+385 1 14 14, www.ekotaxi.hr).
If you are arriving at Graz Airport, you can take a taxi or use the GoOpti shuttle service to get to Ljubljana. GoOpti offers transfers from Graz Airport to Ljubljana with prices starting from €29. For taxi options, you can contact Airport Taxi Graz (+43 316 28000, www.taxi-graz-airport.at) or Taxi 878 (+43 316 878, www.taxi878.at).
For those flying into Vienna International Airport, you can take a taxi or use the GoOpti shuttle service to get to Ljubljana. GoOpti offers transfers from Vienna International Airport to Ljubljana with prices starting from €39. For taxi options, you can contact Airport Driver (+43 676 78 222 78, www.airport-driver.at) or Taxi 40100 (+43 1 40100, www.taxi40100.at).
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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
9:30 – 3:00
Check-in
10:00 – 12:00
Eva Pattis & Caterina Vezzoli (Italy)
Self-Experience: Playing with Sand/Witnessing in Silence
Emma Wong (Hong Kong / UK)
Mindfulness Self-Experience: It is difficult. We are different. How can we connect?
Tristan Troudart (Israel)
Workshop: Understanding Human Rights Activism Through Feeling, Symbolic Language, Self-Reflection and Group discussion
The above are dedicated for those in Ljubljana only and for 25 people maximum (each workshop).
2:30 – 3.30
Conference Opening Address: A&A Committee + IAAP President Misser Berg
3:30 – 4.30
Jožef Magdič (Slovenia)
Navigating the Waters of Identity: Jungian? Politician? Yourself?
4:30 – 5:00
Coffee break
5:00 – 5:30
Manca Švara and Katja Hrobat Virloget (Slovenia)
My Silent Story
5:30 – 6:00
Carolyne Bates (U.S.A.)
There’s Something about Uvalde: American Patriarchy and the Slaughter of Innocents
6:00 – 6:30
Stefano Carta (Italy)
History, Paranoia and Fragmentation
6:30 – 7:30
General Discussion / Break Out Session
7:30 – 9:30
Cocktail Reception
8:00 – 9:00
Social Dreaming Matrix (conducted by Caterina Vezzoli)
9:30 – 10:00
John M. Hayes (U.S.A.)
The Whiteness Complex: Breaking the Spell
10:00 – 10:30
Valeria Kierbel (Argentina)
To(o)
Queer the Analyst – Lesbiana, Junguiana y Sudamericana. Contributions
from Queer Epistemologies to Tell Other Stories in Psychology and
Psychoanalysis
10.30 – 11.00
Andrew Samuels (U.K.)
MEN:
Political, Psychological and Professional Perspectives – On Male
Behaviours in Society, Family and Relationships; On Political
Leadership; On Fatherhood; and On Sexual Misconduct by Male
Psychotherapists.
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 – 1:00
Chiara Giaccardi & Mauro Magatti (Italy)
Co-Individuation and Contemporary Supersociety
1.00 – 2:30
Lunch Break
2:30 – 3:00
Ferdoos Alissa (Palestine)
Ethical Breach and Dual Loyalties: Psychological Theories as a Tool of Torture of Palestinian Detainees in Israeli Prisons
3:00 – 3:30
Iryna Semkiv (Ukraine)
War: Mentalization and the Totalitarian State of Mind
3:30 – 4:00
Dmytro Zaleskyi (Ukraine)
A Time for War – A Time for Individuation?
4:30 – 5:15
General Discussion / Break Out Session
5:15 – 5:30
Coffee break
5:30 –7:00
Marcel Mettelsifen & Maite Carrasco (Germany/Spain)
Watani: My Homeland
8:00 – 11:00
Community Dinner
8:00 – 9:00
Social Dreaming Matrix (conducted by Caterina Vezzoli)
9:30 – 10:00
Dmitry Kotenko (Russia)
Russian Identity: Painful Way of Transformation and Global Challenges
10:00 – 10:30
Moshe Alon (Israel)
Lod: A Malcontent City with a Malcontent Group
10.30 – 11.00
Tiffany Houck-Loomis (U.S.A)
Unhinged: A Prospective Perspective on Being Unsafe
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 – 1:00
Verena Kast (Switzerland)
The Culture of Care in its Importance in Dealing with Today´s Crisis
1:00 – 2:30
Lunch break
2:30 – 3:00
Huan Wang (China)
Collective Trauma and Political Paranoia During the COVID-19 Pandemic
3:00 – 3:30
Julien-François Gerber (Belgium)
Ensouling the Critique of Capitalism: From Marx and Jung to Degrowth
3:30 – 4:00
Alex Sierck (USA)
Toward a Geneology of “Analyzability” in Analytical Psychology
4:00 – 4:15
Coffee break
4:15 – 5:15
Round Table with Verena Kast, Andrew Samuels, Lynn Alicia Franco, Monica Luci, Tine Papič, Stefano Carpani
5:15 – 6:00
General Discussion / Break Out Session
6:00
Closing
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law, Slovenia, Poljanski nasip 2