UCL FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

Documentary Film and Psychoanalysis Conference: From Observation to Après-coup.

In the spirit of interdisciplinary research, this conference aims to develop connections between the two fields through conversations between psychoanalysts, documentary filmmakers and film theorists.

Keynote speaker:

• Prof. Michael Renov (Professor of critical studies, University of Southern California) Author, The Subject of Documentary (2004) and Hollywood's Wartime Woman: Representation and Ideology (1988); Editor, Theorizing Documentary (1993); Co-editor, Collecting Visible Evidence (1999), a collection of essays on documentary studies; and Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices (1996); Series editor, Visible Evidence book series (1997)

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The day will include documentary film screenings, paper presentations and panel discussions with:

• Dr. Lesley Caldwell (UCL) chair
• Prof. Elizabeth Cowie (University of Kent)
• Gareth Evans (Film Curator, Whitechapel Gallery)
• Prof. Stephen Hart (UCL) chair
• Beth Miller (Child Psychotherapist and film maker)
• Dr. Agnieszka Piotrowska (University of Bedfordshire)
• Amy Rose (Documentary film maker)
• Dr. Janine Sternberg (Child Psychotherapist)
• Megan Virtue (Psychoanalyst, UCL)

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The conference is supported by UCL's Film Studies Department, Robert's Skills Funding, FIGS Funding and Graduate School

The event is free but booking is essential:  http://documentaryfilmandpsychoanalysis.eventbrite.co.uk/