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Members' news
Since early 2020, we publish news about our members' research in the form of a monthly newsletter. You can find the newsletters in PDF format under the following links:
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podcasts
In July 2020, we launched a series of podcasts on global therapeutic cultures. Further information on these podcasts can be found on our pocasts page, here.
news
June 2019
IV Seminar: "Childhood, Well-being and Parenting"
École des hautes études en santé publique (EHESP)
26-27 June. Rennes, France
More Info: https://www.ehesp.fr/en/research/organisation-of-research/chairs-at-ehesp/childhood-well-being-and-parenting-chair/
April 2019
Conference: "Happycracy: Comme la scienza e l'industria della felicità controllano le nostre vite"
National Geographic Science Festival.
14 April. 17.00. Auditorium Parco della Musica. Sala Petrassi.
More info: https://www.auditorium.com/evento/happycracy_la_scienza_industria_felicita_controllano_le_nostre_vite-20376.html
October 2018
International Conference: "La felicidad como una nueva ficción política: discursos, tecnologías y artefactos". 25-26 October. Universidad Diego Portales. Santiago de Chile.
Keynote Speakers:
Sam Binkley (Emerson College, Boston)
Edgar Cabanas (Universidad Camilo José Cela, Madrid)
Daniel Nehring (East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai)
Vanina Papalini (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; CONICET)
For more information, take a look here.
IV Seminar: "Childhood, Well-being and Parenting"
École des hautes études en santé publique (EHESP)
26-27 June. Rennes, France
More Info: https://www.ehesp.fr/en/research/organisation-of-research/chairs-at-ehesp/childhood-well-being-and-parenting-chair/
April 2019
Conference: "Happycracy: Comme la scienza e l'industria della felicità controllano le nostre vite"
National Geographic Science Festival.
14 April. 17.00. Auditorium Parco della Musica. Sala Petrassi.
More info: https://www.auditorium.com/evento/happycracy_la_scienza_industria_felicita_controllano_le_nostre_vite-20376.html
October 2018
International Conference: "La felicidad como una nueva ficción política: discursos, tecnologías y artefactos". 25-26 October. Universidad Diego Portales. Santiago de Chile.
Keynote Speakers:
Sam Binkley (Emerson College, Boston)
Edgar Cabanas (Universidad Camilo José Cela, Madrid)
Daniel Nehring (East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai)
Vanina Papalini (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; CONICET)
For more information, take a look here.
October 2017
Routledge have launched Therapeutic Cultures, a new book series tied to our network. The first book to be published in the series will be Ole Jacob Madsen's The Unfolding of the Therapeutic, forthcoming in 2018. For more information, take a look here or here.
Routledge have launched Therapeutic Cultures, a new book series tied to our network. The first book to be published in the series will be Ole Jacob Madsen's The Unfolding of the Therapeutic, forthcoming in 2018. For more information, take a look here or here.
September 2017
Talia Morag (Deakin University, Australia). Workshop "Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason".
22 September, 12:00. Universidad Camilo José Cela. Madrid.
More information here
March 2017
Sam Binkley' s conferences in Madrid:
February 2017
Ole Jacob Madsen's Optimizing the Self: Social representations of self-help has just been published in paperback. More information here.
January 2017
New book chapter, "The Making of a 'Happy Worker': Positive Psychology in Neoliberal Organizations", by Edgar Cabanas and Eva Illouz. Published in Beyond the Cubicle: Job Insecurity, Intimacy, and the Flexible Self (pp. 25-50), Oxford University Press. Link
Workshop at the University of Sheffield: Therapeutic culture and development
China Mills (University of Sheffield) and Elise Klein (University of Melbourne) will host a workshop on therapeutic culture and international development. This workshop will take place on Friday March 17th 11-5pm, at Sheffield Institute of International Development (SIID), University of Sheffield. Click here or here for further information.
New monograph on therapeutic narratives of intimate life
Daniel Nehring (University of Worcester), Dylan Kerrigan (University of the West Indies at St. Augustine) and Emmanuel Alvarado (Palm Beach State College) are currently working on a new monograph on transnational therapeutic narratives of intimate life. To be completed in mid-2017, this book will explore the transnationalisation of therapeutic narratives of love, romance, sex and marriage in the Americas, Western Europe and East Asia.
Talia Morag (Deakin University, Australia). Workshop "Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason".
22 September, 12:00. Universidad Camilo José Cela. Madrid.
More information here
March 2017
Sam Binkley' s conferences in Madrid:
- 8th March. "The Psychologization of Anti-Racism: Educational Diversity as Dispositif". More information here
- 9th March. "The Work of Diversity in the Age of Rage: Humiliation and the Indebted Subject of Anti-Racist Governmentality". More information here
February 2017
Ole Jacob Madsen's Optimizing the Self: Social representations of self-help has just been published in paperback. More information here.
January 2017
New book chapter, "The Making of a 'Happy Worker': Positive Psychology in Neoliberal Organizations", by Edgar Cabanas and Eva Illouz. Published in Beyond the Cubicle: Job Insecurity, Intimacy, and the Flexible Self (pp. 25-50), Oxford University Press. Link
Workshop at the University of Sheffield: Therapeutic culture and development
China Mills (University of Sheffield) and Elise Klein (University of Melbourne) will host a workshop on therapeutic culture and international development. This workshop will take place on Friday March 17th 11-5pm, at Sheffield Institute of International Development (SIID), University of Sheffield. Click here or here for further information.
New monograph on therapeutic narratives of intimate life
Daniel Nehring (University of Worcester), Dylan Kerrigan (University of the West Indies at St. Augustine) and Emmanuel Alvarado (Palm Beach State College) are currently working on a new monograph on transnational therapeutic narratives of intimate life. To be completed in mid-2017, this book will explore the transnationalisation of therapeutic narratives of love, romance, sex and marriage in the Americas, Western Europe and East Asia.
