• The Alchemy Fire Murder with Susan Rowland

    Description: Come and join us on Thursday, June 8 for a book club get-together with renowned scholar, writer, and detective novelist Susan Rowland to discuss her latest cozy mystery, The Alchemy Fire Murder Come and join us on Thursday, June 8 for a book club get-together with renowned scholar, writer, and detective novelist Susan Rowland…

  • Ecopoetics and Environmental Aesthetics

    Ecopoetics and Environmental Aesthetics

    Ecopoetics and Environmental Aesthetics A hybrid conference organised byLondon Arts-Based Research Centre Kew Gardens, LondonJuly 17-18, 2023 Call for Papers I think of the shimmer of oil              from yet another spill in the Niger Basin              and the nightmare of a psyche so dry it is resistant to rain              the water falls straight through              like a…

  • Poetic inquiry: Working with Images

    Poetic inquiry: Working with Images

    About the course: In this course, poet, editor and literary/Jungian scholar Dr. Roula-Maria Dib will guide you through poetry writing as a form of conversation with another medium of art, specifically the visual. This dialogue with images not only offers moments of transcendence and beauty, but it opens inner channels of understanding ourselves and the…

  • The Creative Psyche and Arts-Based Research Conference

    The Creative Psyche and Arts-Based Research ConferenceAssociation of Jungian Analysts Centre(Camden, London)June 10-11 Call for Papers: “… art has forms with ancient origins that enact historically inflected ways of knowing and being.”  from Susan Rowland, Jungian Arts-Based Research and the Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico (p. 24) How do we use art as a means…

  • Psychreative: Susan Schwartz, “The Absent Father Effect: Father Desire, Father Wounds”

    Psychreative: Susan Schwartz, “The Absent Father Effect: Father Desire, Father Wounds” The absent father effect is a love story, but unrequited. The presence of his emotional deadness and absence affects a child—and the father–in body, mind, and soul and culturally is accentuated through traumas and war. Without a father, a child retains a hole in the heart, the…

  • Poetry Workshop: Anthony Anaxagorou, “The Lyric Event”

    Poetry Workshop: Anthony Anaxagorou, “The Lyric Event” Wednesday, April 55:00pm-8:00 pm (UK)online 25 GBP In this interactive online workshop poets will delve into the mechanics of lyric poetry, in particular the Lyric Event. How do we write away from an event which features a first person speaker? Is there a way for a poem to…

  • Mysteries and Histories

    The London Arts-Based Research Centre Mysteries and HistoriesA Transdisciplinary Conference June 24-25, 2023Venue: The Court House in Martock, Somerset (UK) Registration fees: In-person participation: £150Virtual participation: £90 Call for Papers Countless historical enigmas remain unsolved to this day and inspire so much mystery writing—think of the Turin Shroud, the Stonehenge megaliths, the pyramids and pharaohs…

  • Divine Art: Iconography, Ekphrasis and Archaeology

    The London Arts-Based Research Centre Presents: Divine Art: Iconography, Ekphrasis and Archaeology Birkbeck, University of London May 20-21, 2023 Registration open Call for Papers How can religious artefacts shape our understanding of the divine? What type of ekphrastic responses may be generated between different mediums of religious art? What factors come into play in the…

  • Shakespeare Today: Across Time, Across Disciplines

    The London Arts-Based Research Centre Presents: Shakespeare Today: Across Time, Across DisciplinesBirkbeck, University of LondonApril 28-29, 2023 Call for Papers “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.”Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II William Shakespeare: the bard, the playwright, the poet, the actor. You probably quote him on a regular basis without even knowing it. Celestial…

  • Psychreative #18: “Demystifying Tarot, Reshaping Personal Narratives”

    DESCRIPTION Let’s get rid of the tired old stereotypes about Tarot. This conference will delve into the less explored aspects of this “wicked pack of cards,” away from the cliché of divination or parlor trick. Tarot can be immensely helpful as a tool for introspection, by inviting us to project our personal history on the…