Timeline of work

Academic year 2019/20

15^th May 2020.

ISRF/IPT Research Conversation – ‘Structures of Feeling, Criminality, Race’: Louise Braddock, Henrique Carvalho (Warwick), Julie Parsons (Plymouth), Mike Waite.

9^th July 2020.

IPT Plenary Meeting: ‘Structures of Feeling 1’.

Introducing the concept of ‘structures of feeling’ and discussing its utility for future work in the research network.

Academic year 2020/21

30^th September 2020.

IPT Plenary Meeting: ‘Structures of Feeling 2’.

Psychoanalytic challenges to, and uses of, structures of feeling as a concept for understanding affective transmission.

26^th October 2020.

St John’s Psychoanalysis Seminar: Louise Braddock, ‘“The unconscious is structured like a structure”: The transmission of meaning and Raymond Williams’s structures of feeling’.

Responses: Shaul Bar-Haim (Essex), Matt ffytche (Essex), Louise Gyler (Australian Psychoanalytical Society), Sarath Jakka (ICI Berlin).

23^rd November 2020.

St John’s Psychoanalysis Seminar: Niall Gildea (Lancaster), ‘Structure contra structuralism in Raymond Williams’.

Responses: Katie Fleming (QMUL), Steven Groarke (Roehampton), Keir Martin (Oslo), Michael Uebel (Texas at Austin).

5^th December 2020.

IPT Plenary Meeting: ‘Structures of Feeling 3’.

Ambiguities and difficulties in the ‘structures of feeling’ concept as Raymond Williams develops it.

27^th January 2021.

IPT Plenary Meeting: ‘Structures of feeling 4’.

Structures of feeling and transmission of affect and trauma.

8^th February 2021.

St John’s Psychoanalysis Seminar: Michael Uebel (Texas at Austin), ‘Architectures of affect: Formulae for a psychoanalytic approach to atmosphere’.

Responses: Elisa Galgut (Cape Town), Keir Martin (Oslo), Christopher Newfield (ISRF), D. Vance Smith (Princeton).

23^rd February 2021.

IPT Research Conversation – ‘Race and Violence’: Louise Braddock, Deana Heath (Liverpool), Christopher Newfield (ISRF), Mike Waite.

8^th March 2021.

St John’s Psychoanalysis Seminar: Katie Fleming (QMUL), ‘Not feeling it: Affect theory and Greek tragedy’.

Responses: Louise Braddock, Simon Goldhill (Cambridge), Miriam Leonard (UCL).

20^th March 2021.

IPT Research Conversation – ‘Symbolization’: Louise Braddock, Louise Gyler (Australian Psychoanalytical Society), Christopher Norris (Cardiff).

8^th April 2021.

IPT Plenary Meeting: ‘Affect and Feeling 1’.

Affect, atmosphere, and genre; and affect theory’s relationship to historicist scholarship and historical materialism.

17^th May 2021.

St John’s Psychoanalysis Seminar: David Russell (Oxford), ‘Marion Milner and the psychoanalytic essay’.

Responses: Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck), Elisa Galgut (Cape Town), Neil Morgan (British Psychoanalytical Society), Christopher Norris (Cardiff).

14^th June 2021.

St John’s Psychoanalysis Seminar: David Kaposi (Open University), ‘Beyond Milgram: Towards a theory of implicit violence’.

Responses: Louise Braddock, Arthur Bradley (Lancaster), Louise Gyler (Australian Psychoanalytical Society), Sherrill Stroschein (UCL).

15^th June 2021.

IPT Plenary Meeting: ‘Psychoanalysis, Genre, Narrative’.

Marion Milner’s works, her ‘introspective’ journals, and her relationship to the British psychoanalytic tradition.

17^th June 2021.

IPT Research Conversation – ‘Shame and Violence’: Louise Braddock, Deana Heath (Liverpool), Sarah Marks (Birkbeck), Jeffrey Murer (St Andrews), Christopher Newfield (ISRF), Mike Waite.

6^th July 2021.

IPT Research Conversation – ‘Ekphrasis’: Louise Braddock, Arthur Bradley (Lancaster), Paul Farley (Lancaster), Elisa Galgut (Cape Town), Sarath Jakka (ICI Berlin).

15^th July 2021.

IPT Research Meeting: Louise Braddock, Elisa Galgut (Cape Town), Niall Gildea (Lancaster), Daniel Herwitz (Michigan): Richard Wollheim, ‘The Mind and the Mind’s Image of Itself’.

Academic year 2021/22

2^nd/3^rd October 2021.

Oxford Interdisciplinary Psychoanalysis Seminar: Autumn Workshop 2021. Topics in Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Thought: Papers on Trauma and Transmission. Papers by Shaul Bar-Haim (Essex), Louise Braddock, Katie Fleming (QMUL), Elisa Galgut (Cape Town), Niall Gildea (Lancaster).

15^th November 2021.

St John’s Psychoanalysis Seminar: Louise Braddock and Michael Rustin (East London), ‘Structures of feeling and psychoanalysis: revisiting Raymond Williams on social forms of consciousness’.

23^rd November 2021.

IPT Research Meeting: Louise Braddock, Elisa Galgut (Cape Town), Niall Gildea (Lancaster), Daniel Herwitz (Michigan): Richard Wollheim, ‘Criticism as Retrieval’.

4^th December 2021.

IPT Plenary Meeting: ‘Structures of Feeling 5’.

The value of ‘structures of feeling’ as an interdisciplinary concept for understanding intergenerational trauma and transmission.

6^th December 2021.

St John’s Psychoanalysis Seminar: Elisa Galgut (Cape Town), ‘Richard Wollheim on disposition and phantasies’.

Responses: Damien Freeman (Australian Catholic University), Louise Gyler (Australian Psychoanalytical Society), Derek Matravers (Open University).

22^nd January 2022.

Oxford Interdisciplinary Psychoanalysis Seminar: Winter Workshop 2022. Richard Wollheim Study Day.

28^th February 2022.

St John’s Psychoanalysis Seminar: Shaul Bar-Haim (Essex), ‘The shadow of narcissism: (Jewish) self-hatred in the age of identity politics’.

Responses: Louise Braddock, Josh Cohen (Goldsmiths), Sherrill Stroschein (UCL).

9^th April 2022.

IPT Plenary Meeting: ‘Affect and Feeling 2’.

Clarifying our understanding of the terms ‘affect’, ‘emotion’ and ‘feeling’, with attention to their histories in ancient and modern philosophy, and psychoanalysis.

19^th April 2022.

IPT Research Conversation – ‘Submissive Individualism’: Ward Blanton, Louise Braddock, Christopher Newfield (ISRF), Marietta van der Tol (Blavatnik School of Government).

3^rd July 2022.

Oxford Interdisciplinary Psychoanalysis Seminar: Summer Workshop 2022. The Social Individual: Psychoanalysis, Social Science, and Hegel’. Papers by Ward Blanton, Louise Braddock, Katie Fleming (QMUL), Susanne Herrmann-Sinai, Christopher Newfield (ISRF), Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco (Surrey), Michael Uebel (Texas at Austin).