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Interdisciplinary research colloquium

the Phenomenology and Mental Health Network at The Collaborating Centre for Values-based practice in Health and Social Care, St Catherine’s College, Oxford 

is co-organizing an interdisciplinary research colloquium with the Phenomenological Psychopathology section at the Heidelberg Psychiatric Clinic as well as the German Society for Phenomenological Anthropology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.The topic is: Familiarity and Trust as Basic Elements of an Intersubjective Anthropology.

The talks will take placeon seven Wednesdays from the beginning of December 2023 until the end of February 2024 from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m(CET). We will have two „hybrid“-talks taking place in Heidelberg at the Jaspers Library of the Center for Psychosocial Medicine and online, as well as five online talks. You will find the program and additional organizational information for the upcoming semester here (eng) and here (ger).

Please feel free to forward this invitation to others who may be interested.

The presentations will be 45-50 minutes, with a subsequent Q&A of 40-45 minutes accordingly.

To participate online, please use the following static Zoom-linkhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88518462948

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