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Location: Archaeology G6 Lecture Theatre, 31-34 Gordon Square, UCL, WC1H 0PY
2014, the year of the hundredth anniversary of the first world war occurs in a contemporary world besieged by conflict. This conference, organised by the Psychoanalysis Unit, considers the omni-presence of war in human life and society.
Psychoanalysts and academics will discuss the fundamental places of war in history and offer some approaches to understanding its continuing centrality, psychologically, socially and culturally.
Speakers:
David Leibel
'War around Freud'
Mary Fulbrook
'The Long Shadows of Nazism: Reverberations of War Across Generations'
Hans van Wees
'The Psychology of Combat in the Iliad'
David Morgan
'Warring States: the Terror of Peace'