Dates: Thursday November 7th – Friday November 8th 2024
Venue: Private Dining Room, Executive Learning Centre (ground level), Schulich School of Business. 56 Fine Arts Road, York University
Psychosocial Transformations: The School, The Clinic, and The Archive is a two-day conference that explores psychoanalytic investigations into the conflicts of emotional life in classrooms, clinical settings, and social and historical contexts. Psychosocial Transformations builds on the vibrant and growing field of psychosocial studies and its influence in education, psychology, and history to examine links between the individual and the social and political context of their formation.
Psychosocial Transformations brings together local and international scholars and practitioners, including researchers, clinicians, educators, and graduate students to ask what it can mean to change the world from the inside out by questioning how and why people come to know and transform their worlds. During a time of ongoing local and global crises, environmental catastrophe, and social breakdowns, Psychosocial Transformations offers a unique opportunity to advance theories, practices, and pedagogies that support emotional and social transformations in a larger effort to create a more viable present and future.
The conference provides an interdisciplinary venue for studies of education, mental health, social conflict, and political life and considers how a study of emotional life can generate care for and curiosity about ourselves, others, and the world. The local and international reach of the event engages the wide-ranging and interdisciplinary impacts and applications of psychosocial knowledge in three key sites: the school, the clinic, and the archive. Invited contributors are a diverse group of world-leading scholars, emerging academic stars, award-winning educators, and impactful clinicians in their fields of study and practice.
Psychosocial Transformations will achieve four main outcomes:
To advance understandings about the status of emotional life in generating social and political change;
To create interdisciplinary clusters of knowledge that address convergent issues and challenges in contexts of education, clinical practice, and history;
To mentor graduate students in psychosocial frameworks and applied methodologies;
To disseminate knowledge widely in a range of scholarly and popular genres with a view to inform ongoing scholarly debates, theoretical and methodological inquiries, professional education, and clinical practices.