[ecrea] Conference 3/31-4/2, THE (IN)SANE SOCIETY: Remembering Erich Fromm and the Frankfurt School

*THE (IN)SANE SOCIETY: Remembering Erich Fromm and the Frankfurt School*

Please join us March 31st - April 2nd, for this conference,co-organized
by Lynn Chancer, Lauren Langman, Neil McLaughlin and Michael Thompson,

This event is also co-sponsored by Lynn Chancer of the CUNY Graduate
Center Sociology Department and Hunter College; The Saturday, April 2
event was co-organized by Mauricio Cortina (Director, Attachment and
Human Development Center) and Catherine Silver of The Program Committee
of The National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis.

/*The Erich Fromm Conferenceis open to the public without charge. */

A light collation of sandwiches, fruit, cookies and wine will be
available for $20 after the end of the conference to provide additional
time for informal talk.

To look at the complete program of the Erich Fromm two-day conference,
please click on the following
link<https://www.dropbox.com/s/w5kdigq5wqdq6j5/Fromm%20Conference%20Schedule%202016.pdf?dl=0>or 

find the full program below.


_March 31st and April 1st Location:_
The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, 10016

_April 2nd Location:_
NPAP 40 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011, Buzzer # 216


Conference Schedule:

_*Thursday, March 31, Sociology Lounge, The Graduate Center, CUNY *_

**

*Opening Plenary 6:30pm-8:30pm *

Speaker:

Eli Zaretsky (History, The New School) “Political Freud”

*_Friday, April 1, Skylight Room, The Graduate Center, CUNY_
Opening Welcome, 9:00-9:15am, Lynn Chancer, Neil McLaughlin and Lauren
Langman *

*Panel 1**, 9:15am-10:45am*
Fromm's Theoretical Contributions: In Defense of Humanism

Chair, Catherine Silver

Speakers:

Kieran Durkin (Sociology, University of Glasgow) "Fromm's Radical
Humanism: Its Provocation and Promise"

Kevin Anderson (Sociology, UC Santa Barbara)
"Fromm vs. the Cold War Liberals: Debating the Young Marx and Nuclear
Weapons"

Joan Braune (Philosophy, Mount Mary University)
"The Theorist as Prophet: Theory, Practice, and Humanistic Messianism in
Erich Fromm"

Mauricio Cortina (Director, Attachment and Human Development Center,
Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington D.C.)
"What Does New Evolutionary and Developmental Science Tell Us About
Being Human?"

*Panel 2**, 11:00am-12:30pm*
Fromm’s Social Character and Bourdieu’s Habitus

Chair, Mauricio Cortina

Speakers:

Michael Maccoby (President of the Maccoby Group, Washington D.C.)
"Conceptual Tools to Understand Social Change and Human Development"
(trained by and co-author with Erich Fromm of *Social Character in a
Mexican Village*)

Discussants:
Neil McLaughlin (Sociology, McMaster University) and Catherine Silver
(The CUNY Graduate Center and the National Psychological Association for
Psychoanalysis)

*Lunch, 12:30pm-1:30pm (Graduate Center Cafeteria, 8thFloor) *

*Panel 3, 1:30pm-3:00pm *

Fromm in the Current Political Moment: From Sadomasochism to Terrorism
and Multi-Dimensional Inequalities

Chair, Neil McLaughlin

Speakers:

Lynn Chancer (Sociology, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY)
“Sadomasochism or the Art of Loving: Fromm and Feminist Theory”

Stephen Bronner (Political Science, Rutgers University) “Erich Fromm's
Materialism”

Sara Salman (Sociology, The Graduate Center, CUNY)
"The Seduction of Terrorism: A Psychodynamic Examination of the
Recruitment of Women into Terrorist Groups"

*Panel 4**, 3:15pm-4:45pm*
Fromm, Authoritarianism and Right-Wing Movement: Revisiting Escape from
Freedom

Speakers:

Michael Thompson (Political Science, William Paterson University)
“The Ethos of Domination: Fromm’s Concept of ‘Authoritarian Conscience’ ”

David Smith (Sociology, The University of Kansas) “The Weimar Proletariat”

Lauren Langman (Sociology, Loyola University – Chicago) and
George Lundskow (Sociology, Grand Valley State University)
“Escape from Modernity: Authoritarianism and the Quest for the Golden Age”

Janet Afary (Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara) “Reading Fromm for the
Age of Islamism”

*Panel 5, 5:00pm-6:30pm *

Fromm’s Thought and the Transformation of Self and Society

Speakers:

James Block (Political Science, DePaul University)
“From Dialectics to Insight: Fromm and the Logic of Self-Transformation”

Lauren Langman (Sociology, Loyola University – Chicago)
and George Lundskow (Sociology, Grand Valley State University) “Dynamic
Character Change: Prelude to a Sane Society”

Kieran Durkin (Sociology, University of Glasgow)
“The 'Art of Living' and the Dialectics of Social Transformation”

*Break, 6:30pm-6:45pm Drinks & Refreshments *

*Special Session on Fromm’s Philosophy and the Revolutionary Character
6:45pm-8:00pm *

Speakers:

Joan Braune (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Mount Mary University)
“Catherine Dunham’s Caribbean and Erich Fromm’s Humanism”

Nick Braune (Associate Professor of Philosophy, South Texas College)
“Erich Fromm’s Civics: Sanity, Disobedience, and Revolutionary Character
Structure”

*Dinner, 8:15pm*
(Local Dinner Reservations to be announced)
RSVP Lynn Chancer (lchancer /at/ hunter.cuny.edu)
<mailto:(lchancer /at/ hunter.cuny.edu)> and Omar Montana
(nycmontana96 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(nycmontana96 /at/ gmail.com)>



_*Saturday, April 2, 2016*_

_Location: NPAP 40 West 13thStreet, New York, NY 10011, Buzzer # 216.
(Between 5thand 6th Avenues) Handicap Accessible Facility_


*Erich Fromm’s Impact on Psychoanalytic Thinking and Practice *

**

*Panel I 2:00-3:45pm*

Erich Fromm’s Challenge to Freudian Orthodoxy and the Search for
Continuity and Change

Chair, Mauricio Cortina

Speakers:

Neil McLaughlin (Sociology, McMaster University)

“When Worlds Collide: Optimal Marginality, Social Science and Fromm's
Revision of Freud”

Jay S. Kwawer (William Alanson White Institute)

“The Rise and Fall of the Label King”: On Marketing Narcissism

Discussant:

Mauricio Cortina (Director, Attachment and Human Development Center,
Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington D.C.)

*Panel II 4:00-5:45pm *

“The Art of Listening”: Is There a “Frommian” Way to Listen In and Out
of the Clinical Setting?

Chair, Neil McLaughlin

Speakers:

Alan Roland (National Psychoanalytic Association for Psychoanalysis)

"The Socio-Historical, Psychoanalytic Context of Erich Fromm's
Involvement with Zen Buddhism"

Sandra Buechler (William Alanson White Institute)

“Choosing Life: Fromm’s Clinical Values”

Discussant:

Catherine Silver (The CUNY Graduate Center and the National
Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis)

*Panel III 6:00-7:45pm*

Erich Fromm: The Clinician as Social Activist?

Chair, Catherine Silver

Speakers:

Karen Morris (Institute for Expressive Analysis, New York)

“The Legacy of Erich Fromm: Carrying the Corpse of Love”

Daniel Shaw (The National Institute for the Psychotherapies and the

Westchester Institute for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy)

“Fromm’s Vision of a Sane World: Love vs. Narcissism”

Discussants:

Donald Carveth (Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis)

Concluding comments:

Lynn Chancer (Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY)

//

*6:00 CE *Units are available to candidates and members of NPAP at no
charge, to nonmembers for $40 per panel. They will be granted to
participants with documented attendance and a completed evaluation form.
It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CEUs to comply with
these requirements. Upon completion, a Certificate of Attendance will be
emailed to all participants.

*Learning Objectives*

After attending the presentations, participants will be able to:

-Understand better the changes in theoretical formulations from orthodox
Freudian to relational models through the work of Erich Fromm.

- Assess the historical and theoretical importance of the concept of
Character Structure.

- Describe how social and institutional factors influence the process
and shape the dynamics of treatment.

- Discuss the ways in which cross-cultural and cross-generational
factors contribute to psychoanalytic thinking and techniques.


This second day of the Erich Fromm conference was co-organized by
*Mauricio Cortina* (Director, Attachment and Human Development Center)
and *Catherine Silver* of The National Psychological Association for
Psychoanalysis (NPAP). The event is co-sponsored by Lynn Chancer of the
CUNY Graduate Center Sociology Department and Hunter College and NPAP
Program Committee:

Alan Roland (Chair), Jane Kupersmidt, Susana Martina, Montana Katz,
Jerry Nashban and Catherine Silver.

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