Deadline for proposals: 31.12.2019
We cordially invite participants of the Barcelona Symposium in September 2020 to submit proposals for workshops (w), sub-plenaries (SP) and paper presentations (PP) for consideration by the Scientific Program Committee (SPC). There are 3 official languages for the symposium – English, Spanish and Catalan and proposals may be submitted in any of these three languages.
However, in keeping with the theme of the symposium – ‘Languages of Groups: the power to include and exclude’ – we ask you to also submit translations of your text into the other two languages. A link is provided to google translate, which the joint organising committees have so far found adequate for communicating between the members. Each proposal will be read by at least two members of the scientific program committee, fluent in a different official language, to ensure that it is well understood. Please state in which of the official languages you propose to make the presentation, and any ways in which you can make it open to speakers of the other official languages.
The topic is a very broad one, relevant both to the clinical situation and beyond. You might like to consider the language of the body, of social media, of dreams, the unspeakable, of psychopathology, language and identity, and of different life stages, organizational language, professional language, theoretical language, the language of research, and of group analytic trainings, metaphor, language and gender, language and racism, mother tongue, family language, nonverbal language, koinonia etc. And how any of these operate in and between groups to include and exclude.
It is important to link your proposal to the topic and the themes that will be explored during the Symposium, which include:
Lost in translation;
Language and power;
Meeting through language?