Public Seminars
Timetable for Summer term 2025
Venue: Birkbeck College, Malet Street, WC1 – ROOM NUMBER WILL VARY
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 3 MAY (G13/14)
Add to Google Calendar| 01:45 – 03:15 pm | Short Course: Beginning the Treatment | ANNE WORTHINGTON |
| 3.30 – 5.00pm | Round Table: Transference Love | LUCIA CORTI, BERJANET JAZANI, CHRISTOS TOMBRAS, KRISTINA VALENDINOVA |
| 5.15 – 6.30pm | BOOK LAUNCH:‘How Does Analysis Work?’ | Edited by Berjanet Jazani |
SATURDAY 10 MAY (G13/14)
Add to Google Calendar| 11.00 – 12.45pm |  |
Introductory Lecture: The Drive | DARIAN LEADER |
| 1.45 – 3.15pm | Suggestion and Interpretation – Clinical Implications | SORIN BECHEANU | |
| 3.30 – 5.00pm | |
Short Course: Beginning the Treatment | BERJANET JAZANI |
| 5.15 – 6.30 | |
Love in Freud’s Case Histories (Part 2) | ARTURO BANDINELLI |
SATURDAY 17 MAY (G13/14)
Add to Google Calendar| 1.45 – 3.15pm | The Freudian “Uncanny”: Intellectual Uncertainty, Castration, and the Repression of Femininity | DANY NOBUS |
| 3.30 – 5.15pm | The Metaphysics of Love | CHRIS WOJTULEWICZ |
SATURDAY 24 MAY (G13/14)
Add to Google Calendar| 11.00 – 12.45pm | Introductory Lecture: The Object | ASTRID GESSERT |
| 1.45 – 3.15pm | Short Course: Beginning the Treatment | ALISTAIR BLACK |
| 3.30 – 5.00pm | Round Table: Love and Sex | SOUKAINA AMIRA, ARTURO BANDINELLI, BERJANET JAZANI |
| 5.15 – 6.30 | Infantilisation, Humiliation, and Debasement | VINCENT DACHY |
SATURDAY 7 JUNE (G13/14)
Add to Google Calendar| 1.45 – 3.15pm | Short Course: Beginning the Treatment | LAURA TARSIA |
| 3.30 – 5.00pm | Arrogance as a Marker of Social (Dis-)Order: Some Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Reflections | DANY NOBUS |
SATURDAY 14 JUNE G13/14
Add to Google Calendar| 09:45 – 10:45am | Open Morning (G23) | |
| 11.00 – 12.45pm | Introductory Lecture – Phantasy | DARIAN LEADER |
| 1.45 – 3.15pm | Revenge | ASTRID ZECENA |
| 3.30 – 5.00pm | Child Analysis Working Group | BICE BENVENUTO |
SATURDAY 21 JUNE (G13/14)
Add to Google Calendar| 1.45 – 3.15pm | Maternity and the Supposition of a Subject | ALAIN VANIER & CATHERINE VANIER Psychoanalysts, Espace Analytique, Paris |
| 4.00 – 5.45pm | Valerie Love Memorial Lecture:
Psychotic Children in Analysis |
CATHERINE VANIER |
SATURDAY 28 JUNE (ROOM 532)
Add to Google Calendar| 11.00 – 12.45pm | Introductory Lecture – Interpretation | ANDREW HODGKISS |
| 3.30 – 5.00pm | Towers of Babel or How to Structure Love | CHRISTOS TOMBRAS |