Program of the conference

The First European Conference of Analytical Psychology
“Dialogue at the Threshold between East and West:
Cultural Identity Past, Present and Future”
 
 

Plenary sessions will take place in the Central building of Vilnius University
in Universiteto str. 3 (look in a map below).
Afternoon sessions will take place in the Faculty of Philosophy
in Universiteto str. 9/1 (near Presidential Palace and Daukanto Square).
For general information look in About Lithuania and Vilnius
For information about tours look in Accomodation and tours

The Program
Thursday, June 25, 2009

2:00p.m.- 5:00p.m.  Registration Faculty of Philosophy, 2nd floor
4:50p.m.- 5:15p.m.   Opening –
            Gražina Gudaitė for the Organizing Committee,
            Angela Connolly for the Program Committee,
            Rector of  Vilnius University		 Theater Hall,
central building of
Vilnius University
(VU)
5:15p.m.- 6:15p.m.   Keynote Address –
            “The Cultural Unconscious and the Roots of Identity”
            Verena Kast (Chair: Murray Stein)		 Theater Hall,
central building (VU)
6:15p.m.- 7:15p.m.  Lithuanian musical performance
            (Chair: Gražina Gudaitė)
            String quartet “Akademija”
            (Prof. P. Kunca,  D. Šešelgienė,
             M. Makrickas, R. Kalnėnaitė)
             Group of sutartinės chanters “Trys keturiose”
             (D.Račiūnaitė- Vyčinienė and others)		 Theater Hall,
central building (VU)
7:15p.m.- 8:30p.m.    Reception with Refreshments Cafe (See 1 in the map below)
 

Friday, June 26        “OUR DIFFICULT HISTORY”

8:30a.m.- 9:30a.m.   Social Dreaming Matrix
             (Helen Morgan & Penny Pickles)		 Theater Hall,
central building (VU)
9:40a.m.- 11:10a.m.   Plenary (Chair: Angela Connolly)
             “Coping with Collective Trauma” -
             Danute Gailiene, Gražina Gudaitė et. al.
 		 Theater Hall,
central building (VU)
11:10a.m.- 11:30a.m.  Coffee break
 		  
11:30a.m.- 1:00p.m.  Plenary (Chair: Marianne Mueller)
             A. “From Soul Murder to Post-Traumatic Growth” – 
             Ursula Wirtz		 Theater Hall,
central building (VU)
             B. “Terror, Persecution and Attachment” –
             Brian Feldman
 		  
1:00p.m.- 2:00p.m.  Lunch Faculty of Philosophy:
Cafe
2:00p.m.- 3:30p.m.  Breakout sessions Faculty of Philosophy
             A. (Chair: François Martin-Vallas)
             1. “Individuation, Cultural Identity and Cultural
             Memory” – Gunter Langwieler
             2. “Gender Roles Modeled by the Serbian Cultural
             Environment, Then and Now” –
             Svetlana Zdravkovic		 Room 209
             B. (Chair: Christian Gaillard)
             1. “Changing Minds” – Margaret Wilkinson
             2. “Healing Symbols in Depression” –
             Elona Ilgiuvienė		 Room 301
             C. (Chair: Marianne Mueller)
             1. “They Don’t Come to Seek Analysis” –
             Regina Renn
             2. “Trauma, Transference/Countertransference
             and Latvian Folklore” – Ieva Bite		 Room 303
             D. (Chair: Joerg Rasche)
             1. “The Shot Memory – Reflections on the
             Influence of WWII Trauma on the
             Contemporary Polish Psyche” -
             Matgorzata Kalinowska and Anna Rozycka
             2. “Complex Psychology and the Theory of
             Dissociated Mind” –
             Nadia Fina and Caterina Vezzoli		 Room 307
             E. (Chair: Angela Connolly)
             1. “In Search for a Meaning of Suffering and
             Death" – Algis Petronis		 Room 201
             F. (Chair: Jan Wiener)
             1. “Homosexualities: Politics, Culture Wars,
             and the Challenge to Analytical
             Psychology” - Barry Miller
             2. “The Question of Homosexuality” –
             Joseph David Shesko
             3. “Gay to Be Homosexual?” – Erhard Trittibach
             4. ”Interdisciplinary Interrogation about the
             Feminine and Masculine” –
             Marie-Laure Grivet-Tour		 Room 302
             G. (Chair: Ann Casement)
             1. “Using the Transitional Space of the
             Sandtray for Working Through a
             Teenager’s Emotional Trauma” –
             Vera Batna
             2. “The Structure of Complexes after
             Experiences of Trauma in Childhood and
             Adulthood” – Krzysztof Rutkowski
 		 Room 214
3:30p.m.- 3:45p.m.  Coffee break
 		  
3:45p.m.- 5:15p.m.  Breakout sessions Faculty of Philosophy
             A. (Chair: Ann Casement)
             1. “European Identity: Vas Hermeticum or
             Melting Pot” – Velimir Popovic
             2. “Primal Relationship Deprivation and
             Identity Formation in Adolescence: Life
             Story Analysis” – Asta Zbarauskaite		 Room 214
             B. (Chair: Joerg Rasche)
             1. “The Wild Feminine: Reconnecting to a
             Powerful Archetypal Image” –
             Katharina Casanova
             2. “Peculiarities of Mother Complex
             Constellation in Girls with Experience of
             Sexual Abuse Trauma” –
             Neringa Grigutyte		 Room 204
             C. (Chair: Murray Stein)
             1. “When the Eye Holds to Vision” –
             Gunilla Midboe
             2. “Detained Childhood: Specificity of Analysis
             in Russia” - Vsevolod Kalinenko		 Room 209
             D. (Chair: Angela Connolly)
             1. “Perverse Solutions to Trauma” –
             Geraldine Godsil
             2. “Interrogation and Torture in Politically
             Repressed Countries” – Christopher Mead		 Room 201
             E. (Chair: Christian Gaillard)
             1. “The Intrapsychic Origins of Unconscious
             Racism” – Anna Bravesmith
             2. “Modern Day Traumas, Memories of
             Identities and Encounters with the Other”-
             Irene Agnello & Angiola Iapoce		 Room 301
             F. (Chair: Jan Wiener (continued))
             1. “Homosexualities: Politics, Culture Wars, and
             the Challenge to Analytical Psychology” –
             Barry Miller
             2. “The Question of Homosexuality” –
             Joseph David Shesko
             3. “Gay to Be Homosexual?” – Erhard
             Trittibach
             4.”Interdisciplinary Interrogation about the
             Feminine and Masculine” –
             Marie-Laure Grivet-Tour		 Room 302
             G. (Chair: Marianne Mueller)
             1. “Symbolic Touch in the Analytical Frame” -
             Maria Lomova
             2. “Supervision – Analytical Psychology in
             Connection with Balint group-work” –
             Stephan Alder		 Room 303
5:30p.m.- 7:00p.m. Plenary – Community Meeting
             (Chairs: Murray Stein & Ann Casement)		 Theater Hall,
central building (VU)
7:00 p.m.   Friday evening events
             arranged by Lithuanian Group:
             Guided walking tour in the old town of Vilnius (optional)		  
7:00 p.m.   “In Search for the Origins of Cultural Identity” -
             Rita Repšienė
             Documentary Film “Signs Out of Time”
             The story of archeologist Marija Gimbutas
             by Donna Read and Starhawk  (optional)		 Room 301,
Faculty of Philosophy
7:00 p.m. Faculty of Philosophy
             Optional Documentary Film “Soviet story”
             by Edvins Snore (optional)		 Room 214,
Faculty of Philosophy

Saturday, June 27    “EMERGING IDENTITIES”

8:00a.m.- 9:30a.m.  Presidents’ Meeting
            (Chair: Marianne Mueller)		 Restaurant of
Shakespeare hotel
8:30a.m.- 9:30a.m.  Social Dreaming Matrix -
             (Helen Morgan & Penny Pickles)		 Theater Hall,
central building (VU)
9:40a.m.- 11:10a.m.  Plenary (Chair: Hester Solomon)
             Panel: “Developing Analytic Identity
             in Different Cultures –  Outreach Models” –
             Erel Shalit (Israel), Svetlana Nikolkova (Bulgaria),
             Misser Berg (Denmark), Ursula Peterson (Estonia),
             Jan Wiener (London), Oksana Lavrova
             (St. Petersburg), Penny Pickles (London)
             and Tatiana Rebeko (Moscow)
 		 Theater Hall,
central building (VU)
11:10a.m.- 11:30a.m.  Coffee break
 		  
11:30a.m.- 1:00a.m.   Plenary (Chair: François Martin-Vallas)
             A. “Relationship, Freedom, Tolerance and Culture –
             Four Principles of Therapeutical Work in Eastern
             Europe Founded on the Ground of
             Analytical Psychology” - Gert Sauer
             B. “Nostalgia and Lost Identity” – Elena Pourtova
 		 Theater Hall,
central building (VU)
1:00p.m.-2:00 p.m.  Lunch Faculty of Philosophy
Cafe
During lunch  Informal meeting for members of Developing
             Groups in Eastern Europe to consider the possibility
             of shared teaching programmes
             (Chairs: Jan Wiener and Erel Shalit)
 		 Theater Hall,
central building (VU)
2:00p.m.-3:30p.m.  Breakout sessions Faculty of Philosophy
             A. (Chair: Murray Stein)
             1. “Outer and Inner Maps” – Margaret Klenk
             2. “S. P. Huntington, C. G. Jung and the Search
             for Civilization” – John Dourley		 Room 214
             B. (Chair: Angela Connolly)
             1. “The Dialogue between East and West as an
             Intrapsychic Process” – Yehuda Abramovitch
             2. “The Comparison of Attitude and Relationship to
             Evil/Devil in Western and Eastern Cultures” –
             Natalia Pavlikova		 Room 209
             C. (Chair: Christian Gaillard)
             1. “The Politics of Collective Memory –
             Perspectives from the Antipodes” –
             Glenda Cloughley
             2. “Containment and the Womb of the Great
             Mother” – Dmitri Zalessky		 Room 307
             D. (Chair: Marianne Mueller)
             1. “Baltic Landscape in an Inner Journey of a
             Woman” – Goda Rukšaitė
             2. “Lithuanian Symbols: Their Meaning in My
             Work with Lithuanian Trainees” –
             Kathrin Asper		 Room 201
             E. (Chair: Joerg Rasche)
             1. “Cultural Tourism and Soul Care” –
             Kaj Noschis
             2. “Dreaming from Venice to China” –
             Pasqualino Ancona & Elena Cristiani		 Room 303
             F. (Chair: Jan Wiener)
             1. “Images of Authority” - Catherine Crowther,
             Tatiana Rudakova and Vladimir Tsivinsky		 Room 302
             G. Workshop:
             “Explorations in the Psychology of the
             Lithuanian Folktale Egle, the Queen of
             Serpents” – Thomas Kapacinskas
 		 Room 301
3:30p.m.- 3:45p.m.  Coffee break
 		  
3:45p.m.- 5:15p.m.  Breakout sessions
 		 Faculty of Philosophy
             A. (Chair: Jan Wiener)
             1. “The Fountain of Memories: Buried and
             Uncovered” – Maria Anna Bernasconi
             2. “Borderlives: Making Sense of Cultural
             Identity Through Life Histories” – Chiara Sebastiani		 Room 302
             B. (Chair: Murray Stein)
             1. “Nationalism and the Cultural Complex:
             Ireland’s Transformation of a Mythic
             Heritage” – John Hill
             2. “Cultural Complexes in the Hungarian
             Change of Systems” – Zsolt Deak		 Room 201
             C. (Chair: Ann Casement)
             1. “Daidalon: The Archetype of Possibility” –
             Giorgio Tricarico
             2. “The Trickster Archetype and the Function of
             Laughter in Therapeutic Dialogue” –
             Lukasz Muldner-Nieckowski		 Room 204
             D. (Chair: Marianne Mueller)
             1. “The Fool as the Bearer of Meaning” –
             Maria Mercedes Dominguez
             2. “Reconciling (with) the Self” –
             Gerhard Burda		 Room 214
             E. (Chair: Christian Gaillard)
             1. “A Reflection on my Tunisian Experience” –
             Lidia Tarantini
             2. “Islam: New Life in an Old Archetype?” –
             Bernard Sartorius		 Room 307
             F. (Chair: Gert Sauer)
             1. Erel Shalit on "Transient Masks: The
             Transient Personality between Persona and
             Shadow" - Erel Shalit
             2. "To Cultivate the Fallow through Developing
             Work" - Helga Thomas		 Room 303
5:30p.m.- 6:30p.m.   Plenary – Joerg Rasche in concert
             “The Girl of Lake Svitec. A Baltic-Slavic Anima
             in the Ballades of A. Mickiewicz and F. Chopin."		 The Hall of little Aula, central building of Vilnius University
8:00p.m.  Closing Banquet, Belmont Restaurant
 		 Meeting point:
Cathedral square
Bus parking lot