Centre for Culture and the Mind

Events

18 Sept. 2025, 14:00-16:00

Internal Crises and External Enemies: Suicide as a Symptom and Reflection of Space and Time in Socialist Slovenia

Lecture by Dr Meta Remec, exploring the phenomenon of suicide in socialist Slovenia during the post-World War II era, within the context of Yugoslavia.

25 Sept. 2025, 11:00-13:00

Human Salvage: Psychiatry in the Second World War

Lecture by Dr Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen, discussing the expansion of Anglo-American psychiatric theory and practice during the Second World War

9 Oct. 2025, 14:00-15:30

Stammering personalities: psychologising the stammerer in twentieth-century Britain

Lecture by Dr Andrew Burchell, tracing the threads of how stammering came to be psychologised in Britain.

20 Oct. 2025, 14:00-15:30

Freud Against the Grain. Psychoanalysis, Philology, History

Lecture by Dr Andreas Mayer, showing to what extent a philological-historical approach can change our view of the author Freud.

29 Jan. - 30 Jan. 2026

Call for papers: Imagining the Child’s Mind

International Conference.

23 Apr. - 24 Apr. 2026

Call for papers: Living in the aftermaths: Trauma, politics and survival in Yugoslavia and successor states, 1945 - present

Past events

23 May 2025, 13:00-14:30

Governed by Affect: Hot Cognition and the End of Cold War Psychology

Talk by Professor Michael Pettit, York University, Toronto (CA).

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