APS Emerging Scholars Seminar Series

Organised by:

The Association for Psychosocial Studies

Description

This series aims to bring together MA and MSc graduates, PhD candidates and early career academics to share ideas, foster collaboration and build a supportive network of scholars exploring the complex interplay between psyche and society.

Each session features a 20-minute presentation followed by an extended discussion
(40–60 minutes) — a reflective, open space for critical observation and exchange.

The series is via Zoom and open to all – students, researchers and clinicians interested in
psychosocial thought and practice.

Seminar 29/01/26:
Lucia Sarmiento — ‘Becoming What We Eat: Subjectivity and Coloniality in Peru’

Drawing on psychoanalysis and ethnographic methods, this session will consider how mestize subjectivities navigate the complexities of identity and relationality in the context of colonial violence and resistance.

Bio: Lucia Sarmiento is a humanistic psychotherapist and a PhD candidate at Birkbeck
College, University of London.

To book, email tomfielder555@gmail.com