Sessions 2023/2024
26/10/2023: “Hearing Humanity: Counselling and Psychotherapy as an Intimate Educational Anthropology.” (Dr. John Loewenthal, Keele University)
30/11/2023: “Care and Belonging in Ambiguity: Homemaking Practices of Syrian Families in Turkey.” (Begüm Ergün, Boston University)
25/01/2024: “Like a Gambler with No Future: The South Korean Youth as Neoliberal Individuals in a Casinoized Society.” (Kang Daehoon,
School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences – Centre d’études en sciences sociales du religieux (Césor))
22/02/2024: “Conflict, Co-Regulation and Congruence – Sociocultural Influences on ADHD.” (Kathrin Bauer, Free University Berlin)
21/03/2024: “The Power of Silence and Patience. Soft Power and Self-Crafting Among Balinese Women.” (Irina Savu Cristea, Free University Berlin)
25/04/2024: “Guardians of Science: Validation and Institutionalization of Parallel Psychology Fields in Contemporary Iran.” (Zahra Abbasi, University of Oslo, IKOS)
30/05/2024: “From bodies in revolt to the body of life – somatic activism and the nanopolitics of reparation.” (Mahé Ben Hamed, CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) – Pacte (Grenoble, France)
Sessions 2022/2023
10/11/2022: “Social Pain Points: Young People in the Media Industry of China.” (Xinru Li, PhD candidate, SOAS)
8/12/2022: “Embodying the Mindset of Computer Programmers” (Naama Cohen, University of Copenhagen)
12/01/2023: “Some insights into a shaman’s rituals of retaliation in a Siberian city” (Konstantinos Zorbas, Ph.D)
09/02/2023: ““Textures of Care: Sociality and Ethics in the Work of Psychological Counsellors in Sri Lanka”” (Nadia Augustyniak, CUNY graduate center)
09/03/2023: “Learning Shame, Learning Fear: A cross-cultural comparison of socialising emotions in Finland and Colombia” (Maija Eliina Sequeira, University of Helsinki)
13/04/2023: “The Surprising Importance of Counterdependent Defenses and Adaptation in Psychology and Culture” (Dr. Lawrence Blum, University of Pennsylvania)
11/05/2023: “The perception of parenthood in Communism and their implication in todays’ adults in Romania” (Dr. Lavinia Tanculescu-Popa, Hyperion University)
Sessions 2021/2022
11/12/2021: “Invisible relations and changing paradigms in UK autism and learning disability services.” (Dr. Joseph Long)
12/10/2021: “’I am also doing research’: searching for meaning and ways to live with mental symptoms in Ouagadougou.” (Annigje van Dijk)
01/14/2022: “The Spaces of Belonging: Schooling Practice and Self-Making in a Post-Soviet Kazakhstan public school.” (Julia Khan)
02/11/2022: “Naturally Connected Neurodiversity: Natural environmental connections and identity re-alignment among late-diagnosed autistic women” Katrine Callander – University of Kent
03/11/2022: Two presentations:
“Sometimes you need a break even from your best friends: Partner choice and fairness amongst Finnish children” Maija Sequeira – University of Helsinki
“Embodying the mindset of computer programming: The life-world of people engaged with computer programming in the context of transnational programmers located in Tel Aviv” Naama Cohen, University of Copenhagen
04/08/2022: “Gendered religious work and self-making practices among Hindu women in Bali” – Irina Savu-Cristea, FU Berlin
05/13/2022: “Trauma-therapy in exile: healing in a host(ile) society” Mayssa Rekhis – EHESS Paris
06/08/2022: “Localizing Traveling Concepts: Permaculture and Green Schooling in Southeast Asia” Thomas Stodulka – FU Berlin