Race as Relation presented by David L. Eng
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In conjunction with the New School for Social Research continues the series, Bringing Back the Revolution
Saturday, October 24, 2015
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Memorial Lecture
Featuring David L. Eng presenting Race as Relation
David L. Eng is one of the country’s foremost theorists of race, gender, and sexuality from a psychoanalytic perspective. In 2000 he and Shinhee Han coauthored “A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia,” which appeared in Psychoanalytic Dialogues. This paper offered a groundbreaking perspective on immigrants living in the Asian diaspora. Moreover it provided a new and inclusive theoretical model for understanding the internalization of racism, a model that continues to reverberate throughout the psychoanalytic academic and clinical worlds.
Please join us for what promises to be an engaging day of dialogue and discussion featuring David Eng, On Racial Melancholia, with discussant Patricia Gherovici, and panelists Jama Adams, Sam Semper, and Sujatha Subramanian. Michael Moskowitz and Ben Kafka will moderate.
Schedule of Events
9:00-9:55 Breakfast and on-site registration
10:00-10:15 Overview and introductions
10: 15-11: 15 David Eng, Race as Relation
11: 15-11:45 Discussion, Patricia Gherovici
11:45-12: 15 Discussion with audience
12:15-1:40 Lunch Break
1:45-3:30 Jama Adams, Sam Semper, and Sujatha Subramanian Clinical and Cultural Engagements with Racial Melancholia
3:30-4:30 Responses by David Eng, Patricia Gherovici, and the audience
Seating is limited
Location: TBA (Manhattan, for sure)
About Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl (1946-2011) was a philosopher and psychoanalyst. Best known for her authoritative biographies of Hannah Arendt and Anna Freud, she also gave us a number of penetrating studies of prejudice in the modern world, including The Anatomy of Prejudices (Harvard, 1996) and the posthumously published Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children (Yale, 2012). Trained at the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute, the New Haven Child Study Center, and the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, she was an honorary member of IPTAR for many years.
About the participants
C. Jama Adams, is a licensed clinical psychologist and the Director of Clinical and Research Services for Montego Medical Consulting. Dr Adams has many years of clinical experience working with families involved with child protective services, foster care and preschool special education. In addition, Dr. Adams is Associate Professor and Chairperson, Department of Africana Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He has published articles on Identity, Black men, fatherhood and organizational issues
David L. Eng is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English as well as Professor in the Program in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory and the Program in Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of specialization include American literature, Asian American studies, Asian diaspora, psychoanalysis, critical race theory, queer studies, gender studies, and visual culture. He is author of Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Duke, 2001) and The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy (Duke, 2010)..
Patricia Gherovici is a psychoanalyst, senior member, supervisor, and faculty member at Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association in New York City. She is co-founder and director of the Philadelphia Lacan Group. Her books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Other Press, 2003), winner of the Gradiva Award and the Boyer Prizer, Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism (Routledge,2010) and forthcoming, Psychoanalysis Needs a Sex Change: Lacanian Approaches to Sexual and Social Difference.
Ben Kafka is an Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU, a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities, and an advanced candidate at IPTAR. He is author of The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork (Zone Books, 2012), as well as numerous articles, essays, and reviews on art, culture, politics, and psychoanalysis, including the recent piece “‘To Materialize Their Every Wish’: Race, Class, and Psychoanalysis,” which appeared in Psychoanalytic Dialogues 25:2 (April/May 2015).
Michael Moskowitz, is on the faculty of IPTAR and the NYU School of Social Work. He is the author of articles on psychoanalytic theory, organizational dynamics, race and ethnicity, and a co-editor of three books including Reaching Across Boundaries of Culture and Class: Widening the Scope of Psychotherapy (Aronson, 1996). He is author of Reading Minds: A Guide to the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution (Karnac, 2010).
Sam Semper is a candidate in the Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program at IPTAR. She is a graduate of IPTAR’s Respecialization Program. Areas of interest include feminist psychoanalytic theory and critical race/whiteness studies. Sam is particularly interested in intersectional approaches to understanding difference in the clinical encounter.
Sujatha Subramanian is on the faculty of IPTAR’s Adult and CAP Training Programs. She works with adults and children many of whom are first and second generation immigrants. She has researched experiences of loss and adaptivity inherent in biculturality
Program committee: Carolyn Ellman (chair), Carlos Padrón, Michael Moskowitz, Judy Ann Kaplan, Ben Kafka, Jeanne Even, Steven Ellman, Chris Christian, Susan Berger, Eva Atsalis.
When
October 24th, 2015 9:00 AM through 4:30 PM
Event Fee(s)
Suggested Admission Fee: $ 75.00
Candidate and Student Suggested Fee: $ 25.00
Register Without Fee $ 0.00