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Chow Chow image: Freud Museum. Detail of couch: Jeremy Millar

Get off the couch! Connections and Projections: Material Culture, Mysteries and the Mind

This event took place on 3 May 2023

Chow Chow image: Freud Museum. Detail of couch: Jeremy Millar

Key details

Time

  • 6pm – 8:15pm

Location

  • Kensington

  • Lecture Theatre 1

Price

  • Free

Who could attend

  • Everyone

School, Centre or Area

Type

  • Lecture

Join our MA Writing and our V&A/RCA MA History of Design for lectures, films and discussion on material culture, Freud, Rorschach, Chinese dogs, couches and ink blots.

Jeremy Millar (Head of Programme, MA Writing) and Sarah Cheang (Head of Programme, MA History of Design) will talk about their recent research on the material culture of psychology and psychoanalysis.

This presentation will be followed by an informal reception and a chance to meet staff and students from the History of Design and Writing programmes. Offer holders and prospective applicants are all welcome, as well as staff and students.

6pm: Presentations
7pm: Q&A opportunity with Heads of Programme
7.30pm: Informal social with refreshments, and a chance to talk to current students and other offer holders
8.15pm: End

Speakers

Sarah Cheang

Dr Sarah Cheang

Head of Programme

Sarah is a design historian. Her wide-ranging practice focuses on East Asian material culture and the body, with a special interest in fashion and race.

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Jeremy Millar

Jeremy Millar

Head of Programme

Jeremy is an artist, and over the past thirty years has curated exhibitions of, and written widely on, many aspects of contemporary art and culture.

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