Previous events in the School of Health in Social Science from 2022 Past events Search Event date Date from Date to Feb 03 2022 16.30 - 17.45 'A Psychoanalytic (Lacanian) Approach to Constitutional Instability in Post-Colonial Ecuador' Ecuador is known for its long-lasting history of political instability. Since independence (1830), this country has replaced its constitution 19 times. On average, Ecuadorians have supplanted their social contract every decade. How can we account for the character of constitutional instability in Ecuador? 2022 Further information Further information Mar 03 2022 16.30 - 17.45 Giving birth to the unborn: Processing the experience of sibling abortion in groups First Thursday seminar, presented by Ying Liu: 'Giving birth to the unborn: Processing the experience of sibling abortion in groups' 2022 Further information Further information Apr 08 2022 14.00 - 16.00 Writing in process event: Returning Here After Being There We will present writing in progress/process around themes of writing, loss, absence and presence. We explore the experience of coming back into contact after a space of absence: returning here after being there. We write through themes of loss, restoration, death, love, breakage, recovery, depletion, renewal, and more. 2022 Further information Further information May 05 2022 16.30 - 17.45 The Dreaming Body: Cut-ups, Tattoos and Other Narrative Assemblages of Inter-being and Becoming Years ago, I was given a reproduction statuette of Rodin’s The Thinker from a cohort of students at the end of their degree – a gift so kindly meant. And when in deepest lockdown I left my academic role of over 20 years and cleared my office, The Thinker came home. Over the coming months, I began to cover the statuette with images from magazines I’d bought and read during lockdown, and added cut-out words later – over time, The Thinker becoming The Dreamer. Parallel to this process, I began to get tattooed – the decoupage process being applied to my body – each tattoo positioned in relation to the next, in response to the process of inter-being and becoming. 2022 Further information Further information Oct 13 2022 16.30 - 17.45 The distance cure: COVID-19 and the future of therapeutic work First Thursday seminar, presented by Hannah Zeavin on Thursday 13th October: 'The distance cure: COVID-19 and the future of therapeutic work' 2022 Further information Further information Nov 03 2022 16.30 - 17.45 Language matters: embodied narratives in-with-through language/s in psychotherapy First Thursday seminar, presented by Donata Puntil on Thursday 3rd November: 'Language matters: embodied narratives in-with-through language/s in psychotherapy' 2022 Further information Further information Dec 01 2022 16.30 - 17.45 Betraying our best intentions: on the need to interrogate how we relate and what it produces First Thursday seminar, presented by J. Karen Serra Undurraga on Thursday 1st December: 'Betraying our best intentions: on the need to interrogate how we relate and what it produces' 2022 Further information Further information Postgraduate Virtual Open Day 2022 Join us online between the 15 - 17 November for our Postgraduate Virtual Open Days, an inspiring and informative programme of live webinar sessions for anyone considering on-campus postgraduate study at the University of Edinburgh.
