Annual Conference of the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS)

9-10 June 2025

St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London, UK

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Conference Agenda

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Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 21st Apr 2025, 07:48:50am BST

Session Overview

Date: Monday, 09/June/2025
8:00am - 9:00am	Art Installation: Open throughout the conference Location: D121 Individual Paper Developing a Decolonial Eye: Paying Attention to the Silence(d) Kartika Ladwal		Registration and coffee Location: D121
9:00am - 10:30am	Opening plenary Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room Chair: Jacob Johanssen Working session Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity Jacob Johanssen, Lynn Froggett, Lita Crociani-Windland, David Jones
10:30am - 11:00am	Coffee break 1 Location: D121
11:00am - 12:30pm	Cultural Objects as Transitional: Navigating Hope and Despair Location: G2 Chair: Thi Gammon Chair: Kartika Ladwal Working session Cultural Objects as Transitional: Navigating Hope and Despair Manali Arora, Mona Jamshidi Nasab, Tom Fielder	Oppression and Gender Location: F5 Chair: Candida Yates Chair: Jahnavi Dutta Individual Paper Crisis and Opportunity: The role of Theatre of the Oppressed in reimagining Gender Clau Di Gianfrancesco Individual Paper Trapped Voices of Iranian Women and the Ongoing Struggle to Unleash Them Maryam Baniasadi Individual Paper The Melancholic Female Body: The Inner Struggle of Objectification in Women Mana Goodarzi Individual Paper Age Against The Machine: Abject Revelation of the Feminine Midlife Crises in The Substance and Babygirl Vivian Chan, Yussef Cole	Reflective Space 1 Location: F4 Throughout the conference, room F4 will serve as a reflective space. Its purpose is for attendees to come together whenever they wish to reflect on, associate with, speak about or otherwise freely engage with the conference themes. There are no chairs, panels or time limits in the reflective space. It can be made into whatever those in the room at any given time wish to create. Alongside the...	Symbolization and Meaning-Making Location: Senior Common Room Chair: Rhea Gandhi Chair: Isaac Chun-Yeung Yu Individual Paper Intimate Revolutions: The Relationship Between Spatial Form and Personal Change in the COVID-19 Pandemic Laura McGrath Individual Paper Crisis and Opportunity: The Death Drive Reformulated Through Aulagnier’s Primal Layer of Experience Marilyn Charles Individual Paper The Unknown Niyamat Narang Individual Paper “not really now not anymore”: Holding a Broken World Together, a Psychosocial Reading of Alan Garner at 90 Madeleine Alice Wood
11:00am - 12:30pm	The Divination Palace Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room Working session The Divination Palace: The role of chance in daily life and ritual Jim Parris	Trauma Location: F6 Chair: David Jones Chair: Melanie Gomes Individual Paper Fostering Resilience After Trauma: Interventions for Survivors of Child Labour Trafficking In India Kirti Devnani Individual Paper The Global Opioid Crisis - Psychosomalgia, Addiction & Relief in Ordinary life Winniey E Maduro Individual Paper Decolonized Trauma, Grief, Hope: Reflections OF A Frontline Practitioner Ufra mir Individual Paper Mental Health as a Human Right: The Role of Practitioners in Times of Crisis Jahnavi Pandya
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Location: DV Lounge
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Immigration / Emigration Location: G1 Chair: Jim Parris Chair: Nahiyan Rashid Individual Paper It is Téhéran NOT Tehran! Bita Riazati Individual Paper Confronting Colonial Wounds: Exploring Intergenerational and Familial Crisis During the 2024 Anti-Immigrant Protests Tanishka Pillai Individual Paper Borders and Refugees Agnieszka Piotrowska Individual Paper The Architecture of Illusions: The Shadow Play of Power Mechanics and the Legacy of Control in descendants of the National Socialist Party of the Third Reich. Ana Sofia Hernandez Vega	Pathways of Despair and Hope: Pathways of Despair and Hope: Religious Belief, Identity And Crisis Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room Chair: Peter Harris Chair: Melanie Gomes Symposium Religious Belief, Identity And Crisis: Pathways Between Despair and Hope Chair(s): Peter Harris, Roger Willoughby Discussant(s): Linden West, Mike Seal Presentations of the Symposium Home Alone: Neglect, Guilt And Religious Transformation Peter Harris, Roger Willoughby Religious Fundamentalism, Identity And Violence: A Case Study Linden West Conceptualising The Lived Experience of Spirituality In Twelve Step Programmes Mike Seal	Queer Studies Location: G2 Chair: Rhea Gandhi Chair: Ruth Toba Llewellyn Individual Paper “We’re Just Friends”: An Autoethnographic Inquiry Of Queer Love, Kinship And Communities Jahnavi Dutta Individual Paper Slave Play In The Psychoanalytic Clinic: A Self-theorisation Of Overwhelming Experiences Of Queer, Racialised Erotic Transference Harriet Mossop Individual Paper Rethinking Queer Identity Development Through Social Interaction Siddharth Trigunayat Individual Paper Why is it so Hard to Talk About Same-sex Experience? -– Exploring Veiled Silence in a Research Relationship Through Reflexive and Autoethnographic Lens Thi Gammon	Reflective Space 2 Location: F4 Throughout the conference, room F4 will serve as a reflective space. Its purpose is for attendees to come together whenever they wish to reflect on, associate with, speak about or otherwise freely engage with the conference themes. There are no chairs, panels or time limits in the reflective space. It can be made into whatever those in the room at any given time wish to create. Alongside the...
1:30pm - 3:00pm	The Dream Society Location: G3 Chair: Yingjie Ouyang Working session The Dream Society: Collaboratively writing as a space for possibilities. Donata Puntil, Melissa Dunlop, Emma Macleod-Johnstone, Angeliki Skamvetsaki, Mark Price, Kamen Petrov	The Relational Chatbot Location: Senior Common Room Chair: Lynn Patricia Froggett Chair: Javeria Anwar Working session The Relational Chatbot: Advisor, Companion Or Therapist? Lynn Patricia Froggett, Gail Kenning
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Coffee break 2 Location: D121
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Collectives and Objects Location: G1 Chair: Lita Crociani-Windland Chair: Melanie Gomes Individual Paper Culture as the Bad Object: A Clinical Illustration Nini Kerr Individual Paper Acting on Emotion(s)? Motivating the Public to Respond to Policy Calls for Change Amidst the UK’s Health and Social Care Crisis Rachel Cohen Individual Paper Bullying and Dynamics of Exclusion in Adolescent Groups: a Symptom of the Social Crisis Tommaso Fratini Individual Paper The Crisis as a Springboard for Subjectivation: Example of Couples and Families in post-Revolutionary Tunisia Meriem Mokdad Zmitri	Methodologies Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room Chair: Anthony Faramelli Chair: Niyamat Narang Individual Paper Claustrophobic Field Notes as a Psychosocial Method for Researching Affect and the Unconscious Katrine Weiland Willaa Individual Paper Framing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Through Photography: A Psychosocial Exploration of Young Adults' Perspectives in Indonesia Caron Toshiko Monica Individual Paper Beyond Words: An Autohistoria-Teoría Of A Colombian Dialogue Practitioner On The Spiritual, Affective, And Embodied Dimensions Of Dialogue Juliana Ramírez-Muñoz Individual Paper Psychosocial Methodologies in the Archive: Understanding Historical Crises: a 1930s Case-study. David Jones	Pakaan: For Hope Amidst Chaos Location: F4 Chair: Isaac Chun-Yeung Yu Working session Pakaan: For Hope Amidst Chaos Ufra mir, Nabeela Khan	Racism and Dynamics of Exclusion Location: G2 Chair: Jim Parris Chair: Yaxin Hu Individual Paper When Coping Becomes Survival: Navigating Everyday Islamophobia in Indian Universities Ahammed Fazariya, Anahita Bhandari Individual Paper Why Thou Why Thou shall not love Thy neighbour? Underpinnings of Hatred and Aggression in Urban Slum among children Arjun Kumar Individual Paper Forging Solidarities in Silence: Navigating Racism, Resistance, and Repair in Academia Kartika Ladwal, Rhea Gandhi Individual Paper An Inquiry Into The Polarisation In India: What Are Its Links With Mental Health? Sadaf Basir Vidha
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Reflective Space 3 Location: F6 Throughout the conference, room F4 will serve as a reflective space. Its purpose is for attendees to come together whenever they wish to reflect on, associate with, speak about or otherwise freely engage with the conference themes. There are no chairs, panels or time limits in the reflective space. It can be made into whatever those in the room at any given time wish to create. Alongside the...	Responding to Crisis: Resources for Healing and Transformation Location: G3 Chair: Neena Samota Chair: Javeria Anwar Symposium Responding to Crisis and Implementing Structures of Opportunity – Resources for Healing and Transformation Chair(s): Jacob Johanssen Presentations of the Symposium Survivor Support: how a Values-based Service can Enhance Access to Psychological Capital  Carole Murphy Reflective Practice: Addressing Vicarious Trauma and Practitioner Burnout Anta Brachou UNISafe. Higher Education Institutions and Sexual Violence: in Crisis there is Opportunity Maria Mellins Positive Criminology: Moving from crisis to opportunity Neena Samota	Severed Selves: Romance in the Gothic and Digital Ages Location: F5 Chair: Marilyn Charles Chair: Ruth Toba Llewellyn Symposium Severed Selves: Romance in the Gothic and Digital Ages Chair(s): Marilyn Charles Discussant(s): Maria Miron Presentations of the Symposium Tales from the Dark Continent: Resurgence of the Romance in the Era of AI Marilyn Charles Booktok Made Me Read It: Is There Such a Thing as a Sexual Relationship in New Romance? Carol Owens Severance: A Capitalistic Tale of Technology Promoting Traumatic Splits and the Healing Power of Office Romance and Unions Vivian Chan
5:15pm - 6:45pm	Adolescence Location: F5 Chair: Heidi Sear Chair: Yingjie Ouyang Individual Paper The Talisman Effect: A Puzzle for the ‘Snowflake Generation’ in Finding a Sense of Self and a Space to Belong. Heidi Sear Individual Paper The Significance of Digital Worlds in the Context of Adolescence and Migration Susanne Benzel Individual Paper Youths In A Black Hole - The Curious Case Of A Lost Generation Nina Alleyne-Stewart Individual Paper Towards A Socio-politics Of Self-harm: Reading Rage And Resistance Nina Fellows	Digital Media, Authoritarian Subjectivity and the Drive to Destruction Location: F6 Chair: Anthony Faramelli Chair: Isaac Chun-Yeung Yu Symposium Digital Media, Authoritarian Subjectivity and the Drive to Destruction Chair(s): Anthony Faramelli Discussant(s): Zihan Wang, Virgina Lazaro, Brett Zehner, Jack Z. Bratich Presentations of the Symposium Grey Guattari: Algorithmic Fascism and the Crisis of Subjectivity Brett Zehner, Adam Kngsmith Pink-Red Realism Zihan Wang Body Horror Fascism Virgina Lazaro Laughers and Fighters: Fascist Groupuscules and Mediated Fratriarchy Jack Z. Bratich	Reflective Space 4 Location: F4 Throughout the conference, room F4 will serve as a reflective space. Its purpose is for attendees to come together whenever they wish to reflect on, associate with, speak about or otherwise freely engage with the conference themes. There are no chairs, panels or time limits in the reflective space. It can be made into whatever those in the room at any given time wish to create. Alongside the...	Reviewing for Publication Location: G2 Chair: Jahnavi Dutta Working session Reviewing For Publication Elizabeth Frost, David Jones
5:15pm - 6:45pm	Transformative Methodologies Location: G1 Chair: Lita Crociani-Windland Chair: Yaxin Hu Individual Paper The 4 Years Sean Bear Houlihan Individual Paper Enacting Sustainable Transitions: Using Fictional Scenarios to Explore Change, Grief and Hope Amy Twigger Holroyd	Women in Leadership: Oxymoron or Redemption? Location: G3 Chair: Marilyn Charles Chair: Nahiyan Rashid Roundtable Women in Leadership: Oxymoron or Redemption? Chair(s): Marilyn Charles Presenter(s): Marilyn Charles, Sheyda Esmaili, Noemi Ford, Candida Yates, Hannah Young, Carrie Atikune
7:30pm - 8:00pm	Wine reception Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room
8:00pm - 10:00pm	Dinner Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room

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