The UCD Humanities Institute, the Irish Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, the Irish Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland, and the UCD Centre for Gender, Culture and Identities, present Melancholia.
Description:
This two-day international, multidisciplinary seminar explores the topic of ‘melancholia’ from clinical, theoretical, film studies, and visual arts practice and curatorship perspectives. What does this term mean and how is it understood, worked with and represented in different contexts? We will be looking at how meanings for the term have developed over time and how contemporary understandings of ‘depression’, the ‘sublime’ and ‘affect’ have been used to think about experiences of melancholia. The programme includes a film screening, an art installation screening, an art performance, as well as a range of talks, responses and discussions with speakers specialising in the areas of clinical psychoanalysis/psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychology, visual arts practice and curatorship, and academic research fields, such as literary theory and criticism, philosophy, film studies, history, gender and sexuality studies, and art history and visual culture. The emphasis will be on discussion. Places are limited so early registration is advised.
Schedule:
Friday 7 November 2014
8.00 am-8.45 am Registration (including tea & coffee)
Room: Palatine Room
9.00 am-9.30am Welcome & Opening Remarks
Room: Palatine Room
9.30 am-11.00 am SESSION 1 - WHAT IS MELANCHOLIA?
Room: Palatine Room
Panel: Olga Cox Cameron, Isabel Nolan, Mary Pyle, Moynagh Sullivan
Chair: Anne Mulhall
11.00 am-1.15 pm SESSION 2 - SCREENING OF MELANCHOLIA, dir. Lars von Trier
Room: Audio Visual Theatre
1.15 pm-2.15 pm LUNCH
2.15 pm-3.45 pm SESSION 3 - RESPONSES TO MELANCHOLIA
Room: Palatine Room
Panel: Caroline Bainbridge, Bice Benvenuto, Judy Gammelgaard
Chair: Noreen Giffney
3.45 pm-4.15 pm TEA & COFFEE BREAK
4.15 pm-5.15 pm SESSION 3 - DISCUSSION OF MELANCHOLIA
Room: Palatine Room
Chair: Noreen Giffney
Saturday 8 November 2014
Tea & coffee will be available from 9.15 am
10.00 am-10.15 am SESSION 4 - SCREENING OF CECILY BRENNAN’S MELANCHOLIA
Room: Audio Visual Theatre
10.15 am-12.00 pm SESSION 4 - RESPONSES TO MELANCHOLIA
Room: Palatine Room
Panel: Cecily Brennan, Lisa Moran, Ann Murphy, Emma Radley, Medb Ruane, Marie Walshe
Chair: Tina Kinsella
12.00 pm-1.00 pm LUNCH
1.00 pm-3.00 pm SESSION 5 - ART PERFORMANCE BY AMANDA COOGAN
Room: Palatine Room
3.00 pm-3.30 pm TEA & COFFEE BREAK
3.30 pm-4.30 pm SESSION 6 - OPEN DISCUSSION
Room: Palatine Room
Chair: Eve Watson
An art installation on the topic of melancholia, by Ann-Marie Delaney and Frances O’Dwyer, will be screened during the open discussion.
4.30 pm Thanks & Close of Seminar
Organisers:
Dr Noreen Giffney
Dr Tina Kinsella
Dr Anne Mulhall
Dr Emma Radley
Dr Eve Watson
To download the Programme click here.
Photo credit: Ann-Marie Delaney