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Date: Sep 11, 2008 8:02 AM
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Dear Friends,
 You are cordially invited to a  two-day conference on
 "Experience of Hate and Cultures of Violence" organized by the Centre
 for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Delhi, on the 11th and 12th
 of September at India International Centre.


 Regards,

 Ashok Nagpal
 Director, CPS &
 Professor,
 Department of Psychology,
 University of Delhi,
 Delhi-110007, India

_________________________________________________________________________

 Conference Schedule



 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2008.
 Registration: 9.30 am to 10.00 am

 Inaugural Session

 10.00 am: Welcome and Opening remarks Mallika Akbar & Ashok Nagpal

 10:05 am: Inaugural Address   Pavan Verma

 10:20 am: Keynote Address: Thoughts on Hate and Violence Sudhir Kakar


 First Session: Chair and Moderator: Richard Hertel

 11: 00 am: Rage, Hate and Revenge: Individual and Group Perspectives Salman
                 Akhtar

 11:50 am:  Discussion

 12:00 pm:  Tea

 Second Session: Chair and Moderator: Arup Ghoshal

 12:15 pm:  Destruction of Culture, Destruction of Meaning and Representation
                  Leopold Nosek

 1:05 pm:    Discussion

 1:15 pm:     Lunch

 Third Session: Chair and Moderator: Salman Akhtar

 2:15 pm: Panel Discussion: Hatred and Psychosocial Ramifications
  to
 4.00 pm  M.J.Akbar, Leopold Nosek, Shobna Sonpar, Monisha Nayar & Jane Warren

 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

 Fourth Session: Chair and Moderator: Monisha Nayar


 10:00 am: The Making of a Terrorist: Some Psychosocial Speculations...
                                                              Stuart Twemlow
 10:50 am: Discussion


 Fifth Session: Chair and Moderator: Jane Warren

 11:10 am: Unfolded Repetitive Cycle of Hatred, Violence and Hope: A
 Reflection on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.            Adib Jarrar

 12:00 pm: Discussion

 12:15 pm: Lunch

 Final Session: Chair and Moderator: Sudhir Kakar

 1:15 pm: Panel Discussion: Transformations of Hate in Clinical and
 Social Contexts

 Adib Jarrar, Honey Oberoi, Javed Alam, Salman Akhtar, Stuart Twemlow,
 Richard Hertel,

 2:45 pm : Concluding Remarks by Chair
 _________________________________________________________________________
 Biography of speakers:

 M.J. Akbar
 Mobashar Jawed (MJ) Akbar is an eminent journalist. He has been the
 editor-in-chief of several newspapers including The Asian Age,  Deccan
 Chronicle, Sunday, and The Telegraph. His books include Blood
 Brothers, an exploration of the complex interface between Muslims and
 Hindus over the last 150 years, The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the
 Conflict between Islam & Christianity and a biography of Jawaharlal
 Nehru: The Making of a Nation.  Other books include Behind the Vale,
 India: The Siege Within, Riot After Riot and a collection of his
 articles, Byline.

 Salman Akhtar
 Salman Akhtar, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical
 College  and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Philadelphia
 Psychoanalytic Institute. Dr. Akhtar is the recipient of the Journal
 of the American Psychoanalytic Association's Award (1995) and the
 Margaret Mahler Literature Prize (1996), and was named the1998
 Clinician of the Year by IPTAR, New York. Dr. Salman Akhtar is the
 author of numerous books, including New Clinical Realms: Pushing the
 envelope of Theory and Technique, The Three Faces of Mourning:
 Melancholia, Manic Defense, and Moving On, and Objects of Our Desire:
 Exploring Our Intimate Connections with the Things Around Us. He is
 also an author of Broken Structures: Severe Personality Disorders and
 Their Treatment (1992) and Quest for Answers: A Primer for
 Understanding and Treating Severe Personality Disorders (1995), as
 well as five volumes of poetry. His more than 130 scientific
 publications also include thirteen edited or co-edited books, and
 extensive journal editing credits.

 Javed Alam
 Professor Javed Alam is currently the Chair person of the Indian
 Council for Social Science Research. He has been a Professor of
 Political Science at Himachal University, a Senior Fellow at the
 Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Centre for English
 and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad. He has worked extensively on
 Intergroup conflict from a perspective of Social Equity and Justice.

 Arup Ghoshal
 Arup Ghoshal is Professor & Head, Department of Applied Psychology,
 University of Calcutta and Secretary of the Indian Psycho-analytical
 Society. He is an active member of the Rehabilitation Council of India
 that regulates the training policies and programmes in the field of
 rehabilitation of persons with disabilities. Along with being faculty
 at the Calcutta University, he also works as a rehabilitation
 Psychologist.
 Richard K. Hertel
 Richard K. Hertel received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from The
 University of Michigan. He is a graduate analyst of the Michigan
 Psychoanalytic Institute. He is on the faculty of the University of
 Michigan Psychiatry Department and the Michigan Psychoanalytic
 Institute and is in private practice in Ann Arbor. Since 2004 he has
 chaired a discussion group, "Trauma in the Transference" at the
 American Psychoanalytic Association Bi-Annual meetings. In 2005 he
 chaired an International Psychoanalytic Congress Panel entitled, "DID
 and Trauma". He has two ongoing local discussion groups, one
 concerning the psychotherapy process and one concerning "Trauma in the
 Transference". Dr. Hertel also chaired a panel of the recent
 International Psychoanalytic Congress meetings in Rio entitled "Trauma
 and Dissociative States". He presented a paper, "Visual Impairments
 and Emergent Character Defenses" at the Michigan State Foundation
 140th Annual Scientific Meeting in Troy, Michigan in 2005.

 Adib Jarrar
 Adib Jarrar is a Palestinian independent organisational development
 consultant and clinical psychologist based in Paris and working
 internationally. Born and raised in Israel he pursued D.E.S.S. in
 clinical psychology and psychopathology from the Université de Franche
 Comté in Besançon, France.  He is currently pursuing his Doctorate in
 psychoanalysis and management. He has special interest in the areas of
 conflict resolution, collective trauma work, the role and impact of
 collective memories of atrocities on the psyche and politics, identity
 and unresolved issues. He's associated with Tavistock Group Relations
 model in Europe, the USA, Cuba, the Caribbean, and Israel. For the
 last 3 years, Mr. Jarrar has divided his time between Paris and East
 Jerusalem, providing consultation work and training for Palestinian
 organisations. He is a Professional Associate both with the Tavistock
 Institute and the Grubb Institute, London, and is a member of the
 Board of Advisors for Treatment & Rehabilitation Center for Victims of
 Torture (TRC), Ramallah, Palestine.

 Sudhir Kakar
 Sudhir Kakar is a psychoanalyst and writer based in Goa, India.
 Dr. Sudhir Kakar is the author of numerous books, including  the  most
 recent, Mad and Divine: Spirit and Psyche in the Modern World, The
 Inner World, Shamans, Mystics, And Doctors, Tales of Love, Sex And
 Danger, Intimate Relations, The Colors Of Violence, The Analyst And
 The Mystic, The Indians and Culture And Psyche. Sudhir Kakar has been
 a visiting Professor at several international universities. He is
 currently Adjunct Professor of Leadership at INSEAD in Fontainbleau,
 France and has received several distinguished honours at both the
 national and international levels.

 Monisha Nayar
 Monisha Nayar, Ph.D. trained at Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and
 now practices in  Philadelphia. She is presently the faculty member at
 Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. She is interested in issues of
 cultural diversity, psychic trauma, neuropsychoanalysis and
 transformations of play during child therapy and analysis. Dr. Nayar
 works with individuals, couples and families and specializes in
 rehabilitation of the neurologically impaired and trauma work. She has
 written and presented on additional topics from a psychoanalytic
 perspective, including the role of religious icons and mythological
 figures as used within the context of traumatic experiences.

 Leopold Nosek
 Leopold Nosek, MD is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Sao Paulo,
 Brazil.. He has served as the President of the Brazilian
 Psychoanalytic Society of Sao Paulo and as the President of the
 Brazilian Psychoanalytic Federation. He has been active in the IPA
 (International Psychoanalytical Association) and was a Member of its
 House of Delegates. He was also the Editor of the IPA Newsletter, and
 of the IDE Magazine of the Sao Paulo Psychoanalytical Society and of
 several FEPAL publications. His papers have appeared in books and
 journals in Portugese, English, and Spanish. He organized the exhibit
 Freud: Conflict and Culture in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro and was
 the Curator of the exhibits Psychoanalysis and Modernism in Brazil and
 Freud and Judaism in these two cities. Dr. Nosek was a political
 prisoner for 10 months in 1971 during the Brazilian military
 dictatorship Among his recent publications is Terror in everyday life:
 re-visiting Mr. Kurtz (2003).

 Honey Oberoi
 Honey Oberoi is a Reader in Psychology at the University of Delhi. Her
 Phd on Lives in Exile: Tibetan Refugees and Their Inner World is to be
 published shortly by Routledge. Her interests include Psychoanalysis,
 Buddhism and Engaged Social Activism. She is particularly interested
 in the development of a low cost  psychodynamic psychotherapy for
 India.

 Shobna Sonpar
 Shobna Sonpar has been a practicing clinical psychologist in Delhi.
 She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology (India) and did her
 post-doctoral internship in counseling from University of California.
 She was a lecturer in Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry,
 Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal.  She has
 recently published Violent Activism: A Psychosocial study of ex
 Militants in Jammu and Kashmir.
 Pavan K. Varma
 Pavan K. Varma, the eminent writer and diplomat, is currently the
 Director General of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New
 Delhi. In addition to his diplomatic assignments in various countries,
 including USA and Russia, he has also been High Commissioner of India
 to Cyprus as well as Director of the Nehru Centre in London. Pavan K.
 Varma has established a name for himself as a writer of depth and
 insight. His first book was the highly successful and critically
 applauded biography of the Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib, Ghalib: The Man,
 The Times. His other books include the much-discussed Havelis of Old
 Delhi, Krishna: The Playful Divine  a book on India 's most popular
 deity, and an epic poem on two of the central characters of the
 Mahabharata, Yudhishtar and Draupadi.
 His first book on a contemporary subject was the path-breaking The
 Great Indian Middle Class. Translated into several Indian languages,
 the book was an instant bestseller, and remains the focus of
 discussion and debate even today. This book was followed by another
 successful book Being Indian: The Truth About Why the 21st Century
 Will Be India's. The Japanese, Spanish and French translations of this
 book were very well-received, and a Portuguese version is on the way.
 Being Indian has also had extremely successful runs in its Hindi and
 Urdu editions; the book is currently being translated into Bengali.
 2004 also saw the release of Love and Lust: An Anthology of Erotic
 Literature from Ancient and Medieval India.

 Stuart W. Twemlow
 Dr. Stuart W. Twemlow is Professor of Psychiatry, Menninger Dept.
 Psychiatry, Baylor School of Medicine, Houston, Texas and a faculty
 member of the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute. He is the
 Medical Director of the HOPE unit for Treatment Refractory Adults at
 the Menninger Clinic. He has co-edited a collection of articles on
 analytic work with violence in the community: Analysts in the
 Trenches: Streets, Schools & War Zones, and another entitled The
 Future of Prejudice: Applications of Psychoanalytic Understanding
 toward its Prevention. His latest book with Frank Sacco is entitled
 Why School Antibullying Programs Don't Work Well.  He is a founding
 editor and Editor-in-Chief with Nadia Ramzy, PhD., of The
 International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, and is
 President of The International Association for Applied Psychoanalytic
 Studies.  He has also co-authored a book on out-of-body and near-death
 experiences entitled, With the Eyes of the Mind. Dr. Twemlow has
 practiced meditation and the martial arts for over 40 years.  He
 practices and teaches meditation and black ink brush painting and has
 exhibited, sold and published his brush paintings.
 


 best,
 Ambarien