SELF AND SOCIETY SAVE THE DATE!
FRIDAY (8/9) & SATURDAY (8/10)
TWO MINI-CONFERENCES
GRADUATE CENTER 365 FIFTH AVE NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10065
There is no charge for admission. BUT RSVP is required by GC security. RSVP by emailing co-organizer(s)
Lynn Chancer at lchancer@gc.cuny.edu or Lauren Langman at llang944@aol.com
Tentative Program
TRACK A
9:30 – OPENING DISCUSSION: WHY DOES THE PSYCHOSOCIAL MATTER IN THEORY AND RESEARCH?
PANEL 1 PSYCHOSOCIAL POLITICS CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS
Elisabeth Lackner, The Politics of Othering in Contemporary Austria CULTURE: LUKÁCS & ADORNO
Dean Ray, Framing Conflict: The Social Psychology of Secular
Colonialism in a Comparative Historical Perspective
Vikash Singh, Studying South Asia in Motion: The Importance of a Psychodynamic Perspective
Andrew Shapiro, Splitting and Subjection in Palestine/Israel and the Jewish Diaspora
LUNCH
PANEL 2. POLITICAL DEPRESSION AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT?
Christian Churchill, Educational Politics as Manic Defense: How Redemptive Promises Activate Depressive Stasis in the Academy and Politics
Linda Luu, Viral Cries and the Trouble with the Trauma of Migrant Detention
Josephine Barnett, Psychosocial & Visual Sociology: The Power of Images
PANEL 3. THE ‘PSYCHOSOCIAL’ POLITICS OF TRUMPIAN AMERICA
John Andrews, Fantasies of the Left: Trumpism and the Transformational Object
Omar Montana, A Tale of Authoritarianism & Punishment: “MigrantCenters”, (Dis)Order, and The Resistance
Lynn Chancer, Sadomasochism and Contemporary Authoritarianism
Panels Track B
PANEL 1 Marxist Theory, Global Society and the Environment
Moderator: Michael Sukhov
Alex Stoner, Planetary Crisis, the Dynamic of Capital, and Contemporary Ecological Subjectivity
Harry Dahms, Planetary Sociology and Critical Theory
Bob Antonio, Climate Crisis: Biophysical Limits to Capital
PANEL 2 DIALECTICAL THEORY AND CULTURE: LUKÁCS & ADORNO
Moderator: Michael Thompson
Jeffrey Halley, The Modernist Critique of Realism and the Culture Industry
Ilaria Riccioni, Reconsidering Weber, Lukács, and Adorno on Culture
Charles Thorpe, Anxiety and Human Freakishness
Lunch
PANEL 3 . AUTHORITARIANISM, POPULISM AND THE RIGHT TURN
Moderator: Lauren Langman
Jeremiah Morelock, Authoritarian Populism: A Constellation
David Smith, Divided by Class, United by Hate? The Paradoxical Unity of Trump’s Base
Dan Bursten, Fromm’s theory of Authority and the Postmodern University
PANEL 4. SOCIALISM AND SUBJECTIVITY
Steve Brunner, What is Socialism Today?
Michael Thompson, Toward a New Materialism: Marxism and the New Individual
Lauren Langman, From Domination to Freedom -From Subject to Agent
PLENARY SESSION 6:00 PM
KEVIN ANDERSON AND JANET AFARY -FROMM, SEXISM, AUTHORITARIANISM AND FEMINISM
BANQUET 7:30
SATURDAY AUGUST 10TH
9:30 AM PANEL 1: CRITICAL THEORY AND THE PSYCHOSOCIAL
Moderator: Roger Salerno
Kieran Durkin ‘Erich Fromm and Alain Touraine on the Art of Living and the Dialectics of Social Transformation’
Neil McLaughlin, “How Fromm’s Public Sociology Can Help Us Respond to Trumpism and Jordan Peterson’s Politics
Lynn Chancer, TBA
11:00 AM PANEL 2: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER
NAOMI SNIDER- The Persistence of Patriarchy
ROSE BREWER, Radical Black Feminism: A Critical Interrogation”
SHAWN VAN VALKENBURGH, Gendered Cyber Aggression and Neo-liberalism
HARRIET FRAAD, The Roots of a Disease: Toxic Masculinity
*The above program is from a flier supplied by Lauren Langman
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