DAY ONE, Saturday, December 5, 2020 1:00-4:30 EST
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (times are approximate):
1:00 – Welcoming Remarks: Manhattan Institute and Moderator
1:10 – Framing the Climate Crisis Psychologically – Lise Van Susteren
1:40: Q&A with Dr. Van Susteren
1:50 – Climate Change and Witnessing Professionals – Robert Jay Lifton
2:20 – Q&A with Dr. Lifton
(2:30 – Ten Minute Break)
2:40 – Beyond Anxiety and Ambivalence: An Overview of Psychoanalytic Contributions to Addressing Our Climate Crisis – Renee Lertzman
3:15 – Afropessimism, Climate Change and “The End”: Puerto Rican Reflections on anti-Blackness and Ecological Crisis – Daniel Gaztambide
3:45 – Q&A with Drs. Lertzman and Gaztambide
4:00 – Discussion Among Presenters and Concluding Remarks
DAY TWO, Saturday, December 12, 2020 1:00-4:30 EST
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (times are approximate):
1:00 – Welcoming Remarks – Ferenczi Center and Moderator
1:10 – Planet Earth: Crumbling Metaphysical Illusion – Robert Stolorow
1:40 – Q&A with Dr. Stolorow
(1:50 – Ten Minute Break)
CLINICAL PANEL:
2:00 – The Illusion of a Future: Adolescents Face Smoke and Mirrors with a Good Enough and Bad Enough Eco-Analyst – Elizabeth Allured
2:20 – Kittens and the Climate in the Clinical Space: Rethinking Subjectivity as a Transcorporeal Experience – Katie Gentile
2:45 – Frozen in Trauma on a Warming Planet: A Relational Reckoning with Climate Distress -Wendy Greenspun
3:05 – Q&A with Drs. Allured, Gentile and Greenspun
(3:20 – Five Minute Break)
3:25 – Environmental Justice and My Personal Journey into Climate Activism – Vic Barrett
3:45 – Q&A with climate activist Barrett
4:00 – Discussion Among Conference Presenters and Concluding Remarks
