Rendering Unconscious. Podcast with Dr. Vanessa Sinclair

RU114: Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez, psychoanalyst on trauma, clinical work, lacan salon. Rendering Unconscious welcomes Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez to the podcast! Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez works as a Lacanian psychoanalyst in private practice in Vancouver, Canada. She has vast clinical experience in public and private settings in Mexico and Canada. She has a Master’s degree in clinical psychology by Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) and …

Trauma and Memory Transmission: Silence and the Body

Panel V: Migrations and Impact on the Individual On October 9th and 10th, 2020, Simon Fraser University’s Department of Humanities and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies, with co-sponsorship from the Institute for Humanities, were pleased to present a two-day online symposium on the theme of migration. The 2015 Migration Crisis highlighted not only the enduring tragedy of mass …

Panel on the Theoretical Perspective of “Spectres of Fascism”

Am Johal, Laura Marks, & Hilda Fernandez Alvarez Book Launch and Panel May 29, 2020 Co-sponsored by SFU’s Institute for the Humanities & SFU’s Vancity Office for Community Engagement. SPECTRE OF FASCISM FREE SCHOOL This publication started as the Spectre of Fascism Free School, organized by Samir Gandesha and Stephen Collis and co-sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities and …

1968–2018 Then and Now Conference: “Resistances against Dominant Psychiatric and Therapeutic Paradigms”. SFU Institute for the Humanities.

Co-sponsored by SFU’s Institute for the Humanities, Department of Humanities, J.S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), Department of History, School of Communication, SFU Public Square, and the Lacan Salon. On the 50th anniversary of 1968, this conference will consider various aspects of “the Sixties” in the light of what has developed since considering …