Public Seminars
Timetable for Summer term 2026
Venue: Birkbeck College, Malet Street, WC1 – ROOM B20
The seminars will be a combination of in person at Birkbeck College and Zoom sessions
If you would like to join a seminar via Zoom then make a payment by the Friday before the seminar date. Once payment has been received your name will be put on the list and a link will be sent to you for the seminar(s) booked.
Entrance fees:
£10 for one seminar (£7 concessions)
£15 for two seminars attended on the same day (£12 concessions)
£22 for three seminars attended on the same day (£18 concessions)
** NB: SHORT COURSE: £100 for all four seminars or £27 per seminar **:
If you are unable to do this then please contact the administrator ([email protected]) who will provide BAC payment details.
Saturday 18 April
Add to Google Calendar| 1.45 – 3.15 | Round Table: Objects in Autism | ALEXANDRA LANGLEY, DARIAN LEADER, LAURA TARSIA |
Saturday 25 April
Add to Google Calendar| 11.00 – 12.45 | Introductory Lecture: The Variable Session | ASTRID GESSERT |
| 3.30 – 5.00 | Short Course: Transference and Interpretation | CONOR MCCORMACK |
| 5.15 – 6.30 | Uncertainty is Not a Principle in Psychoanalysis! | VINCENT DACHY |
Saturday 2 May
Add to Google Calendar| 1.45 – 3.15 | Dazed and Confused III: Approaching Lacan’s L’Étourdit | CHRISTOS TOMBRAS |
| 3.30 – 5.00 | The Enigma of Autism | FRANCOISE JOSSELIN |
Saturday 9 May
Add to Google Calendar| 11.00 – 12.45 | Introductory Lecture: Phantasy | LAURA TARSIA |
| 1.45 – 3.15 | Autism and Mental Space | BERNARD BURGOYNE |
Saturday 16 May
Add to Google Calendar| 1.45 – 3.15 | Short Course: Transference and Interpretation | DANY NOBUS |
| 3.30 – 5.00 |
From Autism-Diagnosis to University: |
SIBYLLE JANERT |
Saturday 30 May
Add to Google Calendar| 11.00 – 12.45 | Introductory Lecture: Mourning and Melancholia | ASTRID GESSERT |
| 1.45 – 3.15 | Revenge, Betrayal, Hatred: Cultural and Clinical Implications | BERJANET JAZANI |
| 3.30 – 5.00 | Short Course: Transference and Interpretation | CHRISTOS TOMBRAS |
Saturday 6 June
Add to Google Calendar| 1.45 – 3.15 | Psychoanalysis and the Talking Machine | KRISTINA VALENDINOVA |
| 3.30 – 5.00 | Child Analysis Working Group | BICE BENVENUTO |
Saturday 13 June
Add to Google Calendar| 9.45 – 10.45 |
Open Morning (no charge for this session) |
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| 11.00 – 12.45 | Introductory Lecture: Interpretation | ANDREW HODGKISS |
| 1.45 – 3.15 | The Subject Supposed to Know in Neurosis | GISELE CHABOUDEZ |
| 3.30 – 5.00 | The Course of an Obsessional Neurosis |
GISELE CHABOUDEZ |
Saturday 20 June
Add to Google Calendar| 1.45 – 3.15 | Round Table: Education and Neurodiversity: AHD and ASD in Schools | ARTURO BANDINELLI, LIVIA DE MARCO, LAURA TARSIA |
| 3.30 – 5.00 | Is Belief a Principle in Psychoanalysis? | VINCENT DACHY |
Saturday 27 June
Add to Google Calendar| 9.00 – 10.50 |
VALERIE LOVE MEMORIAL LECTURE: (VIA ZOOM) |
SILVIA & LEONARDO RODRIGUEZ |
| 1.45 – 3.15 | Introductory Lecture: The Object | LUCA BOSETTI |
| 3.30 – 5.00 |
Who Killed Sigmund Freud? Max Schur, Atonement, and the Temptations of Viennese Nutcake |
DANY NOBUS |