Radio Event #2: Emotion and Symbolic Engagement with Radio

This was the second event in the MiW Radio series. It was produced by the Media & the Inner World AHRC Research Network, in collaboration with the University of East London, Roehampton University and London Metropolitan University. Jointly organised by Peter Lewis, London Metropolitan University and Hugh Ortega Breton, University of Surrey. Speakers included: Anne […]

Starts: March 30 @ 5:00pm

Ends: March 30 @ 6:30pm

Address: London Metropolitan University

Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture: A Day Symposium

A one day symposium, held at the Tavistock Clinic. The programme was as follows: Media, Emotion & Sport Michael Brearley (Former England cricket captain; former President of the Institute of Psychoanalysis) Krishnan Guru-Murthy (C4 presenter and broadcaster) Helen Powell (Chair) Senior Lecturer in Media and Advertising, UEL Media Love John Storey (Professor of Cultural Studies, […]

Starts: February 26 @ 10:00am

Ends: February 26 @ 6:00pm

Address: Tavistock Centre

Murder, Madness and Masculinity in Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II

Media and the Inner World, in association with Em-Lou Productions and the Rose Theatre, Bankside, London presented this event. This was the first performance at the Rose Theatre of Christopher Marlowe’s classic drama Edward II in over 400 years. Speakers included: Peter Darney, Theatre Director, whose credits include the highly acclaimed production of Arden of […]

Starts: February 16 @ 7:30pm

Address: The Rose Theatre

Politics, Containment and Contempt

Political contexts of containment and contempt The terms ‘containment’ and ‘contempt’ resonate at a number of levels in the current context of UK political culture. Here one can cite the loss of political certainty surrounding the UK coalition government and the loss of boundaries that once contained and defined the perimeters of political parties and […]

Starts: January 14 @ 6:00pm

Ends: January 14 @ 8:00pm

Address: The Frontline Club

Remote Control: Psychoanalysis and Television

Psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, academics and TV insiders came together at this conference to discuss the function and ethics of TV in the modern world and the emotional experience it creates for us. Still the most common form in which images and narratives are transmitted, how does TV work at the level of the psyche and what […]

Starts: October 29 @ 7:00pm

Ends: October 30 @ 5:00pm

Address: Freud Museum
20 Maresfield Gardens
London NW3 5SX

Social Networking and Digital Narcissism

For many, social networking has become a key part of every day life. Some argue that the development of Web2.0 in the form of information sharing and communicating through blogs, facebook, twitter, etc, provides positive new opportunities for playful self expression, creativity, and even self-realisation. Alongside the imaginary potentials of social media for the self […]

Starts: October 13 @ 6:00pm

Ends: October 13 @ 8:00pm

Address: 'New Tube', PhD UK
The Telephone Exchange
5 North Crescent
Chenies Street
London WC1E 7PH.

Radio Event #1: Engaging Audiences: Radio Journalism and Suffering

This event was organised in collaboration with the Centre for Research in Film and Audio-Visual Cultures, Roehampton University. It was the first event in our MiW series on Radio. Our speakers introduced research and ideas concerning how radio news journalism ‘works’ to create identifications in the audience with stories of human suffering. Speakers included: Kate […]

Starts: October 08 @ 5:00pm

Ends: October 08 @ 6:30pm

Address: Chapman Hall, Queens Building, Southlands College, Roehampton University

Comedy & Psychoanalysis

What is the Relationship Between Comedy and Psychoanalysis? Freud, who never returned to the subject after writing his 1905 book on the theory of jokes {..} suggested that “censors” in the mind form powerful, unconscious barriers that make it difficult to think “forbidden” thoughts. But jokes can elude these censors — to create the pleasure […]

Starts: July 09 @ 2:30pm

Ends: July 09 @ 4:30pm

Address: Jermyn Street Theatre
(Piccadilly Circus) SW1Y 6ST

The University as Transitional Space

Discussion Points: 1. Is there such a thing as a psychoanalytic classroom/psychoanalytic university? 2. How is psychoanalysis taught in the university context: process versus content; the university as a ‘good enough’ environment; teaching psychoanalysis as providing a space for not knowing; who is ‘qualified’ to do this? 3. Is it possible to provide a space […]

Starts: June 18 @ 4:00pm

Ends: June 29 @ 6:00pm

Address: East Building Room EBG014
University of East London

Advertising, Disappointment and Desire

A Round Table and Audience Discussion Advertising has been analysed from a number of perspectives, yet most will agree that its images and messages have been significant in helping to shape experience and identities in every day life. Advertising has always played on the emotions of consumers, yet today, the poignant appeal of ads become […]

Starts: March 12 @ 5:00pm

Address: Room One, Institute of Practitioners in Advertising Friday 12th March 2010 5-7pm
Nearest Tube: Hyde Park