Erich Fromm Society of North America’s Inaugural Conference 2024
Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA, USA
ALL sessions will be held in Wolff Auditorium in Jepson Center, except Panel 3 on Day 1, which will be held in Jepson 122.
8:30-9:30 AM-Registration
Friday September 13, 2024 (Day 1)
9:30-9:50 AM-Opening Remarks
10:00-11:30 AM Panel 1- Critical Pedagogy Through a Frommian Lens
| Marie Hélène Masse-Lamarche, Université du Québec à Montréal (virtually) | “Conquer Snakes, Climb Ladders Within Socially Patterned Defects: A Study on Teacher Alienation in a Neoliberal School Context” |
| Shelly Johnson, Georgetown College (virtually) | “Towards a Biophilic Pedagogy” |
| Rory Varrato, Columbia University (in-person) | “Empathetic Introjection: Coetzee, Fromm, and a Learning Theory for Aesthetic Education through Narrative Art” |
11:30-11:40 AM Break
11:40 AM-1:10 PM Panel 2-Challenging Patriarchy
| Hoang Minh Uyen Ly, American Polytechnic College (virtually) | “Fromm on Mother’s Nature, Sacrifice, and Social Reproduction” |
| Kalyani Singh (virtually) | “P. Sivakami’s Book the Grip of Change: Analyses the Sociological Perspective of Erich Fromm’s View” |
| Amparo Espinosa Rugarcía (in-person) | “Searching Mothers” |
1:10-2:10 PM Lunch
2:10-3:10 PM Sandra Buechler’s Book Presentation 3:10-3:20 Break
3:20-4:50 PM Panel 3- The Relevance of Fromm to Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory
| Session chair: Lauren Langman, Loyola University | |
| Sandra Buechler, William Alanson White Institute (in-person) | “Clinical Implications of Fromm’s View of Health: Legacies of My Training” |
| Ilene Philipson, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (in-person) | “From Determined Objects to Fellow Subjects: The Relevance of Fromm for Contemporary Psychoanalysis” |
| Michael Thompson, William Paterson University (in-person) | “Fromm on the Concept of Psychic Health” |
3:20-5:20 PM Panel 4-Dialogues with Fromm
| Ayumi Osagawa (in-person) | “The Contemporary Significance of Erich Fromm’s Psychoanalysis: A Study in Relation to D. T. Suzuki, Zen Scholar” |
| Amjad Hussain, National University of Modern Languages (in-person) | “Thinking Contemporary Muslim Political Philosophy with Erich Fromm and Muhammad Iqbal” |
| Nick Braune, South Texas College (in-person) | “Ruth Nanda Anshen, a Philosopher, Includes Fromm in World Perspectives Series” |
| Rebeca Aramoni, Mexican Institute of Psychoanalysis (virtually) | “The Emptiness of Isolation” |
6:00-8:00 PM Reception
Saturday September 14, 2024 (Day 2)
9:00-10:30 AM Panel 5-Frommian Perspectives on Digitalization and Social Media
| Jeremiah Morelock, Boston College (in-person) | “Erich Fromm, Social Media, and Authoritarian Populism” |
| Bernice García Tapia, Mexican Institute of Psychoanalysis (in-person) | “The Thumb and Social Media” |
| Rainer Funk, Erich Fromm Institute Tuebingen (virtually) | “Is There a New Social Character?” |
10:30-10:40 AM Break
10:40 AM-12:10 PM Panel 6-Fromm and Human Nature
| Session chair: Michael Thompson, William Paterson University | |
| Lauren Langman, Loyola University (in-person) | “Nature-Nurture: Optimism in Dark Times” |
| Charles Thorpe, University of California, San Diego (in-person) | “Species Becoming: Human Self-Creation and the Moral Meaning of Globalization” |
| Mauricio Cortina (in-person) | “Rethinking Fromm’s View of Existential Dichotomies and Basic Human Needs” |
12:10-1:10 PM-Lunch
1:10-2:40 PM Panel 7-Exploring Social Transformation with Erich Fromm
| Kieran Durkin, University of York (virtually) | “Erich Fromm and Marxism: A Re-appraisal” |
| Tyler Jimenez, University of Washington (in- person) | “Applying Fromm’s Criminological Insights” |
| Jeffrey Nall, University of Central Florida (virtually) | “Change Agents, Martyrs, and Mental Illness: How Erich Fromm’s Conception of Healthy Humanity Upturns Conventional Ideas about Who’s Sick” |
2:40-2:50 PM Break
2:50-3:50 PM Roger Frie’s Book Presentation (“Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism and the Holocaust”)
3:50-4:00 Break
4:00-6:00 PM Panel 8-The Fromm Revival
| Lynn Chancer, CUNY (virtually) | “Why Fromm Now: Why Sociologists Should be Particularly Interested in Rediscovering Fromm” |
| Dean Ray, York University () | “Between Ritual and Atomization: How Indigenous Peoples are using traditional cultural practices to resist fascism and strengthen democracy?” |
| Ilene Philipson, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (in-person) | “A Fromm Revival in Psychoanalysis?” |
| Neil McLaughlin, McMaster University (virtually) | “Fascism, Cultural Crisis and Left-Liberal Authoritarianism: Historical Factors That Are Creating Interest in Fromm” |
4:00-6:00 PM Panel 9-Religious Perspectives on Fromm
| Zeinab Shariatnia, University of Imam Khomeini (in-person) | “The Influence of ‘Personality’ on Forms of Religiosity Based on Erich Fromme’s Theory of Personality” |
| Maor Levitin, York University (in-person) | “Erich Fromm and Contemporary Prophets” |
| Nuzhat Khurshid, York University () | “Religious Humanism as Love and Reason” |
| Ido Ben Harush, Yale University (virtually) | “The Messianic Politics of Erich Fromm” |
Sunday September 15, 2024 (Day 3)
9:00-10:30 AM Panel 10-Psychoanalytic Explorations in Play, Aesthetics, and Utopia
| Rudy Leal McCormack, Sam Houston State University (in-person) | “Mending the Separation” |
| Ayesha Hussain, Ambedkar University Delhi (virtually) | “The Art of Psychotherapy: Personal and Social Healing in the Psychoanalytic aesthetics of Eric Fromm’s Therapeutic Vision” |
| Nils Bischof, International Erich Fromm Society (virtually) | “‘Productiveness’ as ‘Play’: A New Approach to Fromm’s Humanistic Ideals?” |
10:30-10:40 AM Break
10:40 AM-12:40 PM Panel 11-Psychoanalysis and Social Character
| Session chair: Mauricio Cortina | |
| Sandra Paredes Angeles, Mexican Institute of Psychoanalysis (in-person) | “The Search for Mental Health in a Social Network Context” |
| Pablo Javier Varela Fregoso, Mexican Institute of Psychoanalysis (virtually) | “Authoritarianism, Democracy and Social Character in Mexico” |
| Matheus Romanetto, University of Kansas () | “Some Methodological Difficulties in Listening Outside the Clinic” |
| Jorge J. Caraveo-Anduaga, Mexican Institute of Psychoanalysis (virtually) | “The Epidemiological Approach to the Research of Fromm’s Ideas in the Present” |
12:40 PM-1:40 PM Lunch
1:40-3:10 PM Panel 12-Erich Fromm’s Response to Fascism and Racism Today
| Joan Braune, Gonzaga University (in-person) | “I Can’t Believe I Have to Say This: Erich Fromm Was Not an Anti-‘Woke’ Free Speech Warrior” |
| Lynne Layton, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis (virtually) | “Who Speaks for Fromm in this Political Moment? Psychoanalytic Institutions and the Authoritarian Center” |
| Roger Frie, CUNY () | “Erich Fromm’s Fight Against Fascism and Racism” |
3:10-3:20 Break
3:20-4:50 PM Panel 13-The Relationship of Psychoanalysis to Activism and the Left
| Daniel Burston, Duquesne University (virtually) | “Psychoanalysis and the Call to Activism” |
| Dustin J. Byrd, The University of Olivet (virtually) | “Erich Fromm and the Problem of Oikophobia: A Dialectical Approach to the Legacy of the West” |
| Dr. Lucina Montes Nieto (virtually) | “Erich Fromm and Relational Psychoanalysis: Their Coincidence” |
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