TALKS AND LECTURES

2025

Freud's wheelchair and other stories

Applied Section Meeting, British Psychoanalytical Society, London, 9 July 2025

2025

Home alone: Neglect, Guilt and Religious Transformation, with Pete Harris

Association of Psychosocial Studies Annual Conference, St Mary’s University, London, 9 June 2025

2025

Emanuel, Philipp, and Sigmund in Manchester and London

Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria, 13 March 2025

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2024

Freud's British family

Freud's 4pm Session at the Freud Museum, London, 2 November 2024

2023

Freudian dreams from the archives

Royal College of Psychiatrists, History of Psychiatry Section autumn conference, London Metropolitan Archives, 20 October 2023

2023

Psychoanalysis in Britain: The early years

University of Oxford, Department of Continuing Education, 18 February 2023

2018

International education at home, with Parminder Assi

ESREA Conference, Turin, Italy, 2 March 2018

2016

Psychoanalysis and the challenge of educational fantasies

British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, University of Leeds, 14 September 2016

2016

Armenians in British military service during the First World War: A heritage research workshop

Centre for Armenian Information and Advice, London, 3 July 2016

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2015

Contemporary identity, culture and trauma in the wake of the Armenian genocide

International Association of Genocide Scholars conference, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia, 12 July 2015

2015

Identity, culture and trauma: A lecture marking the centenary of the Armenian genocide

Birmingham Newman University, 11 March 2015

2009

Senses of belonging and fitting in? Affinities and emergent identities, with Iain Jones

BESA conference in June and again at Birmingham Newman University on 11 November 2009

2009

Heroes of Ulysses: from Buck Mulligan to Burgh Quay

Heroism in Everyday Life conference, King's College London, 25 June 2009

2006

Winnicott's sexual politics

Winnicott Today conference at University College London, 10 June 2006

2005

Panel chairman's introduction

Joyce-Lacan Symposium, Dublin Castle, 19 June 2005

2004

Haute couture: looking at the clothes of the mind

VIIth International Congress on Infant Observation, Florence, Italy, 16 April 2004

2002

Masud Khan: the prolonged f**k with death

Association of the Centre for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, London, 24 November 2002

2002

Between the basic fault and second skin

VIth International Congress on Infant Observation According to the Method of Esther Bick, Kraków-Przemyśl, Poland, 30 August 2002

2002

Masud Khan: Mad, bad and dangerous to know

Association of the Centre for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, London 28 July 2002

1990

Clinical attachments and play therapy

Trainee Educational Psychologists Conference, Sheffield University, 12 February 1990