azar - arab Studies Group with Lara Sheehi

Coordinated by the collective Darsiná, resident at Santa Mònica, AZAR is proposed as a space for exchange around the artistic, cultural, and academic knowledge of Arab countries. It seeks to recognize their complexity and cultural richness, and to strengthen a trans-Mediterranean bond that deconstructs the colonial and Orientalizing gaze.

This session, with Lara Sheehi, revolves around themes related to the research conducted by Darsiná on the erasure of feminist and queer memory in colonial and postcolonial contexts, and the traumas engendered by the violence of these settings.

Participation in AZAR requires respect for the group’s values, avoiding any comment, behavior, or speech expressing hatred or prejudice based on origin, nationality, sex, religion, social status, or sexual orientation.

bio

Lara Sheehi is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at George Washington University. Her work addresses race and white supremacy, decolonial struggles, and the power configurations within class and gender constructions and dynamics in the framework of psychoanalysis. She practices within a trans-inclusive feminist and liberation theory model.

Lara is the President-Elect of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (SPPP) and President of the Teachers’ Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is Co-Editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA), Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society (PCS), and Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond. She is also a member of the Advisory Board for the US–Palestine Mental Health Network and Psychoanalysis for Pride.

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AZAR launched by La Escocesa in 2024 together with Raquel Álamo, this year continues its programming in collaboration with the Santa Mònica art center, La Escocesa and Silfium.

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