Title: Self Alterations in Psychoanalysis: An anthropological encounter
Bio: Jean Paul Baldacchino is an anthropologist and a practising psychoanalyst. He has trained in Lacanian psychoanalysis and has done ethnographic research in Korea, Malta and Australia. He has published works on the anthropology of religion, emotions, popular culture, phenomenology, psychoanalysis and identity. He is currently the Head of Department at the University of Malta and Director of its Mediterranean Institute.
Bio: Christopher Houston is Discipline Chair of Anthropology at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has carried out fieldwork and research in Turkey on Islamic social movements, nationalism, urban processes in Istanbul, Turkish political history, and on the Kurdish issue. His most recent book is Theocracy, Secularism, and Islam in Turkey: Anthropocratic Republic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
Bio: Banu Senay is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Anthropology at Macquarie University. Her current research on Islamic art pedagogies in Istanbul explores the effects of skill acquisition, engaging with debates in anthropology around learning, self-formation, and ethics, specifically in relation to Sufi Islam and to one of its most significant dimensions, music.
Bio: Nigel Rapport is Emeritus Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St Andrews, and Founding Director of the St Andrews Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. His most recent monograph is Cosmopolitan Love and Individuality: Ethical Engagement beyond Culture (Rowman and Littlefield 2019). Currently he is exploring links between Levinasian philosophy and an anthropology of (secret) subjectivity.
Bio: Jaap Timmer obtained his PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen in 2000. He has held postdoctoral positions at Leiden University, Radboud University, and the Australian National University. He has published his work in numerous journals, as well as working on a number of consultancies. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the School of Advanced Studies, Aarhus, Denmark.
Title: Beautiful bodies, moral bodies, functional bodies. An analysis of self-alteration in an Italian Residential Centre for Eating Disorders.
Bio: Dr Max Harwood is a sessional lecturer and adjunct fellow with Macquarie University’s Department of Anthropology, and a Senior Policy Officer with the NSW Department of Communities and Justice Countering Violent Extremism program.
Bio: Gil Hizi is a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow in anthropology in the Global South Study Centre at the University of Cologne (PhD University of Sydney, 2018). He studies social change in China with the focus on concepts of personhood, interpersonal ethics. and emotions. His field research has been mostly based in psychotherapeutic centres and extracurricular programmes for self-improvement. His articles have been published in journals of Anthropology and Asian Studies, including Ethos, Social Analysis, Asian Studies Review, and Hau.
Title: Change From Without: Uncertainty and Becoming Vulnerable to the More-than-human
Bio: So Yeon Leem is a research professor in the Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities, Sookmyung Women’s University, South Korea. Trained as an STSer, she has been particularly interested in plastic surgery, human enhancement and artificial intelligence. Her work has appeared in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Medical Anthropology, Social Studies of Science and East Asian Science, Technology and Society.
Title: Self-alterations of mind, body and senses of relation in Confinement
Prof. Kathryn Rountree (Massey)
Title: “Re-imagining Self and Personhood in Contemporary Pagan, Neo-Shamanic and New Age Spiritualities”
