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Event Date: 4 May 2011
Freud Museum
20 Maresfield Gardens
London NW3 5SX

The Importance of Being Human

A series of lectures from the School of Social Science, History and Philosophy

SSHP Spring Public Lecture series

Psychoanalysis and Politics – Roundtable Discussion

Special Seminar of the Psychoanalysis and History Series at the Freud Museum

On May 4 2011, the Departments of Psychosocial Studies and of History, Classics and Archaeology join with the Freud Museum and the Raphael Samuel History Centre for a special event in the Psychoanalysis and History Seminar on Psychoanalysis and Politics.

Introduction by Professor Sally Alexander (Goldsmiths).

Professor Timothy Ashplant (Liverpool John Moores University) -
Masculinity and its Vicissitudes in the early 20th Century

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Professor Daniel Pick (Birkbeck College) -
Nazism and Psychoanalysis in the 1940s and beyond

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Professor Stephen Frosh (Birkbeck College) –
Forms of Denial and Re-remembering

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Discussion and audience questions (Chair: Sally Alexander)

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Psychoanalysis, History and Culture (MA) at Birkbeck

Birkbeck Department of Psychosocial Studies

Birkbeck Department of History, Classics and Archaeology

Event Date: 28 March 2011
Birkbeck Cinema
43 Gordon Square
Birkbeck College
LONDON WC1E

The Importance of Being Human

A series of lectures from the School of Social Science, History and Philosophy

SSHP Spring Public Lecture series

Dr Karen Wells (Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies) –
Whose Children: Child protection in the global world.

The ‘best interests of the child’ is the lynchpin of international law and social policy in relation to children’s rights and child protection. This lecture explores the tension between the presumption that ‘best interests’ are self-evident and the multiplicity of normative childhoods in a globalised world.

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Event Date: 21 March 2011
Room B36
Birkbeck College,
Malet St
LONDON WC1E

The Importance of Being Human

A series of lectures from the School of Social Science, History and Philosophy

SSHP Spring Public Lecture series

Professor Susan James (Department of Philosophy) – Imagining Political Consensus

An image of political consensus plays a large role in political philosophy. But it does not seem to be realisable. How, then, should we think about it? In this lecture I’ll discuss some historical and contemporary answers.

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Event Date: 14 March 2011 18:30 – 20:00
Room B04, Birkbeck College
LONDON WC1E

The Importance of Being Human

A series of lectures from the School of Social Science, History and Philosophy

SSHP Spring Public Lecture series

Professor Claire Callender and Anne Jamieson, Department of Social Policy and Education

Claire Callender and Anne Jamieson present their latest research findings on part-time students , their backgrounds and choices.

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Event Date: 7 March 2011 18:30 – 20:00
B04 Birkbeck College,
Malet St LONDON WC1E

The Importance of Being Human

A series of lectures from the School of Social Science, History and Philosophy

SSHP Spring Public Lecture series

Professor Tony Wright (Department of Politics) - In defence of Politicians

Nobody seems to have a good word to say about politicians. But the fact is that politics needs politicians, so we have a duty – however difficult it may be at times – to defend them.

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Event Date: 28 February 2011 18:30 – 20:00
G02 Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square
LONDON WC1E

Importance of Being Human

A series of lectures from the School of Social Science, History and Philosophy

SSHP Spring Public Lecture series

Professor Jean Marc Dewaele (Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication)
Trilingual First Language Acquisition: Perspectives from the child, the father and the researcher

An old and unsubstantiated fear was that children growing up with multiple languages from birth end up with incomplete knowledge of all of their languages. Recent research has shown that this is not the case, and using his 14 year old trilingual daughter as an example, Jean-Marc Dewaele shows that early multilingualism (in this case Dutch, French and English) can lead to high achievement.

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video clips

• Sun and Moon
• Monster
• Mechant papa
• Cowboy
• Billy the cat

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Event Date: 21 February 2011 18:30 – 20:00
B04 Birkbeck College, Malet St
LONDON WC1E 7XH

Importance of Being Human

A series of lectures from the School of Social Science, History and Philosophy

SSHP Spring Public Lecture series

Professor Jerry White (Department of History, Classics and Archaeology) – Vengeance and the Crowd in Eighteenth-Century London

In this lecture Jerry White focuses on the eighteenth-century crowd as an agent of popular justice in opposition to the institutions of a corrupted rule of law. And he explores how, at its worst, that same crowd could be as savage and merciless as the system it sought to oppose.

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Event Date: 14 February 2011

The Importance of Being Human

A series of lectures from the School of Social Science, History and Philosophy

SSHP Spring Public Lecture series

Professor Lynne Segal and Professor Stephen Frosh (Department of Psychosocial Studies)
Intimacy and Love.

Is love something artificial, just a form of illusion? Many theorists have argued this, but why then do so many people experience it as real? In this Valentine’s Day presentation, Stephen Frosh and Lynne Segal debate this and related issues, asking: Is love possible?

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Stephen Frosh

Lynne Segal