Conference participation
2025
‘The making of the self at a Counsellor Training Programme in India’. The 9th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association (APA). Viana do Castelo, Portugal. 14-21 July. Meghna Roy participated in the Panel ‘Autonomy, relational individualism and the anthropology of technologies of the self’.
‘Individualism of Therapised Families? An Ethnography of Russian Psychotherapists in Training’. The 9th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association (APA). Viana do Castelo, Portugal. 14-21 July. Arsenii Khitrov and Keir Martin participated in the Panel ‘Autonomy, relational individualism and the anthropology of technologies of the self’.
‘The Making of the Self at a Counselling Training Programme in India’. The biannual conference of European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA), the University of Münster, Germany. 11–13 June. Meghna Roy and Arsenii Khitrov participated in the Panel ‘Bounded and Relational Individualisms in Anthropology and Psychotherapies’
‘Personal boundaries or healthy relationships in the family? — The limits of the bounded ‘individualism’ model in contemporary Russian psychotherapy’. The biannual conference of European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA), the University of Münster, Germany. 11–13 June. Arsenii Khitrov and Keir Martin participated in the Panel ‘Bounded and Relational Individualisms in Anthropology and Psychotherapies’
2024
‘The Peaceful Mind and Violence-Free Sociality: Russian Psychotherapists' Vision of Psychotherapy's Mission’. The 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA). Porto, Portugal. 27-30 August.
‘The formation of culture in contemporary Chinese psychotherapy’. Royal Anthropological Institute Conference (UK). University of London. 25-28 July 2024.
‘Culture and Class in contemporary Chinese psychotherapy’. The 18th European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference (EASA). Barcelona, Spain. 22-26 July. 24 July. Keir Martin participated in the Panel ‘Undoing and redoing the Social in Psychotherapy’.
‘The Private Hope for Public Healing: The Role of Psychotherapy in Envisioning a New Society’. The 18th European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference (EASA). Barcelona, Spain. 22-26 July. Arsenii Khitrov participated in the Panel ‘Undoing and redoing the Social in Psychotherapy’.
‘Beyond the Self: Private Psychotherapists Thinking about Collective Change in Russia’. Sosiologipäivät: The Annual Finnish Sociological Conference. Kuopio, Finland. 21-22 March.
2023
‘Therapeutic self-care and imagining social space’. The biannual conference of European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA), the University of Oslo, Norway. 7–9 June. Arsenii Khitrov and Keir Martin participated in the Panel ‘Psychotherapy and new C/class (un)consciousness’.
‘Psychotherapeutic politics and political psychotherapy in contemporary Russia’. The 2023 Joint biannual conference of the Society for Psychological Anthropology and the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture ‘Ecologies of Mind: Body, Self, and Person in Cultural Context’. 28–30 April. San Diego, USA. Arsenii Khitrov participated in the panel ‘Personhood, Psychotherapy, And the New Global Middle Class’.
2022
‘'Keeping inner and outer reality separate yet interconnected' in contemporary China: psychotherapy clients' and trainees experiences of self-boundary making.’ The 17th European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference (EASA). Belfast, UK. 29 July. Keir Martin and Arsenii Khitrov organised the panel ‘Shrinking the Planet: Ethnographic explorations of psychotherapy, transformation of identities and the new global middle class.’
‘Ghosts in the Classroom: Intergenerational Trauma and the Lexical Implementation of “Culture” in American Psychotherapeutic Education’. The 17th European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference (EASA). Belfast, UK. 29 July. Panel ‘Shrinking the Planet: Ethnographic explorations of psychotherapy, transformation of identities and the new global middle class.’
‘Thought from Outside’. Panel with Inga-Britt Krause at The 17th European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference (EASA). Belfast, UK. 29 July.
Workshops
‘Psychotherapy and class: communities of self-re-creation’. Global Psychotherapy Workshop. The Norwegian Institute at Athens. 22–23 May. 23 May. Workshop gathered an international network of scholars researching mental health industries. The participants were Keir Martin, Sean Dowdy, Polina Aronson, Zahra Abbasi, Mayssa Rekhis, Inga-Britt Krause, Nadia Augustyniak, Nick Long, Li Zhang, and Arsenii Khitrov.
Global Psychotherapy Workshop in Belfast, 25 July 2022. Themes were "Psychotherapy in Russia today: investment and cycle-breaking" and "The Old Mother’s Sponge: Or, Continuing the Search for a Method". The aim was to strengthened the research agenda of the project. The participants were Keir Martin, Sean Dowdy, Inga-Britt Krause, Kaito Towhata, Polina Aronson, Barclay Bram Shoemaker, Nick Long, Li Zhang, and Arsenii Khitrov.
Invited lectures
2025
‘A Boundary is not a Barrier: The dialogic construction of Individualism in Chinese psychoanalytic psychotherapy’. Social Anthropology seminars. The Anthropology Department, University College London 5 March. Keir Martin.
2024
Presentation at the Doing difference differently seminar. The Tavistock Centre in London. 27 June. Keir Martin
‘Breaking the Cycle of Violence: How Psychotherapists Envision Social Transformation in Russia’. Departmental research seminar, Central & East European Studies, University of Glasgow. 29 May. Arsenii Khitrov
‘Visions of Healing: Unveiling Russian Psychotherapists’ Idea of Psychotherapy's Mission’. Sociology Talks: Departmental research seminar, Discipline of Sociology, University of Helsinki. 26 March. Arsenii Khitrov
‘From Violence to Therapy: The Symbolic Boundary Work of Psychotherapists in Russia and Their Vision of Social Change’. Departmental research seminar. Department of Sociology, University of Turku. 1 February. Arsenii Khitrov
2023
‘Psychotherapeutic politics and political psychotherapy in contemporary Russia’. Lunch-time seminar. Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway. 13 March. Arsenii Khitrov
‘Psychotherapeutic politics and political psychotherapy in contemporary Russia’. Departmental research seminar. Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Helsinki, Finland. 3 March. Arsenii Khitrov