[csaa-forum] Can’t you see I’m burning? CONFERENCE 2020 Auckland CFP

[Rosemary Overell]

Kia ora,

Please note the following call for papers. Though this event is hosted by the Centre for Lacanian Analysis, we welcome papers from a broad range of critically engaged, humanities approaches to the crucial question of what the current, real, conflagrations of COVID, fire and other catastrophe mean in terms of subjectivity, language and representation. Please see below.

Please email me for further information.

Kei te kite koe kei te wera ahau?

Can’t you see I’m burning?

Our work in the field and function of psychoanalysis today demands an engagement with the divided subject at a time when the “pain of existence” is provoked by a specific encounter with the Real – Covid-19. As we bear witness to this devastation, which is so often met with willful blindness in the face off the gasping cries of humanity and nature, is there not a sense that the virus adds fuel to global fires already raging? These conflagrations, including soaring inequality, racism, misogyny, starvation, war, trafficking, ecological catastrophe burn with heightened intensity.  In new ways the environment, living beings and speaking subjects, burn unheeded. Facing this dire predicament, psychoanalysis can respond by letting language fulfil its true function.

The Centre for Lacanian Analysis of Aotearoa New Zealand welcomes papers for discussion on these conflagrations from a broad array of disciplines. It will be possible to attend the conference via Zoom. Please send your abstract of 500 words via Lacan.org.nz by 1st November 2020.

Nga mihi,

Rosie


Rosemary Overell
Senior Lecturer
Media, Film and Communication
The University of Otago
Dunedin
New Zealand
http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.html

Latest Publication: "More Than a Hashtag: Excitement, Anguish and the Semblant of #MeToo." Theory & Event, vol. 22 no. 4, 2019, p. 792-819. muse.jhu.edu/article/736563<https://muse.jhu.edu/article/736563>.

Latest Edited Book: (co-edited with Brett Nicholls) Post-Truth and the Mediation of Reality: New Conjunctures. London: Palgrave.
https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030256692

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