PROGRAM

“Unconscious Dominions: Comparing Histories of Psychoanalysis, Empire, and Citizenship”

7-8 October 2005
The Pyle Center
University of Wisconsin-Madison

7 October 2005
Room 225

Coffee and Registration: 8:30-9:30am

Session I: Welcome and Introductory Remarks: 9:45-10:15am
Warwick Anderson and Richard Keller

Session II: 10:30am-12:00pm

Subjectivity in Colonial/Postcolonial Contexts

• Shruti Kapila, "All in the Mind? W.H.R. Rivers, Freud and India" Respondent: Christiane Hartnack
• Ranjana Khanna, “Indignity” Respondent: Lucienne Loh
• Alice Bullard, “‘La Crypte’ and other pseudo-psychoanalytic theories from French
  West and Equatorial Africa” Respondent: Ranjana Khanna

Lunch: 12:15-1:30pm

Session III: 1:30-3:15pm

The Construction of the Psychoanalyzable Native Subject/Citizen

• Christiane Hartnack, “The Colonial ‘Couch’: Synergies of Indian and Freudian
  Elements in Psychoanalytic Activities in British India”
  Respondent: Shruti Kapila
• Elisabeth Roudinesco, “Psychanalyse et anthropologie” (“Psychoanalaysis and
  Anthropology”) Respondent: Alice Bullard
• Didier Fassin, “French Ethnopsychiatry: A Postcolonial Encounter”
  Respondent: Richard Keller

Refreshments: 3:15-3:30

Session IV. 3:30-5:15

Violence, Trauma, Emancipatory Visions under Colonialism

• Richard Keller, “Colonial Madness and Structural Violence: The Poetics of Suffering in Algeria” Respondent: Deborah Jenson
• Françoise Vergès, “Slavery, Nothingness and Masculinity”
  Respondent: Didier Fassin
• Deborah Jenson, “Traumatic Mimesis in the Haitian Revolution: Hypnotic Identifications with Napoleon and the Revolutionary Slave in the Discourse and Critique of French Imperialism” Respondent: Hans Pols

6:00-7:00 pm: Drinks at Opus Lounge, 116 King St (Cash bar – which does not
mean John is paying!)

7:00 pm: Conference dinner, Harvest Restaurant, 21 North Pinckney Street (by
invitation)

Saturday, 8 October
Room 225

Coffee: 9:30-10:00am

Session V: 10:00am-12:00pm

Psychoanalysis in Settler Societies

• Mariano Plotkin, “Psychoanalysis, Authoritarianism and National Identity: Psychoanalytic Discourse and Practice in Brazil and Argentina under Military Dictatorship” Respondent: John Cash
• Joy Damousi, “Geza Roheim and the Collective Trauma of the Australian Aborigine: Psychoanalytic Anthropology during the Interwar Years”
  Respondent: Warwick Anderson
• Hans Pols, “The Hordes and the Disappeared Totem: A Psychoanalytic Commentary on the Indonesian Struggle for Independence” Respondent: Joy Damousi
• John Cash, “Sovereignty in Crisis: Violence and the Political/Cultural Unconscious” Respondent: Mariano Plotkin

Closing Remarks: 12:00-12.30pm